Is this done with the deep learning research that was published here a couple of months ago?
Is it using this algorithm?
Created by the image scientist behind landmark visuals seen in Myst, The Matrix, 300, and Second Life...
I wonder who it is. The press-kit linked on the website just says "Developer: qarl".
So I guess I'm not alone wanting to do an app like this after seeing deepart.io. Kudos to Pikazo for getting it out there. I'm sure it will be a huge hit.
I wonder if this could be the beginning of many artists being replaced by AI.
This is scarier than I thought. For me this passed the Turing test for art.
well, photos do not become "incredible artwork" or "art" just because means of expression change.
there are photos that are considered to be art, without applying such effects. and there are photos that are not considered to be an artwork.
latter will more likely become more tasteless and ugly with those filters applied, while former don't need such filters in order to be considered the art.
Question for someone who has this app. Can this convert a photo to anime-like or cartoon-like rendering a-la A Scanner Darkly?
Anyone know the name of the song used in the video?
There seems to be a bit of confusion here between art and beautiful compositions.
Art is not art because it looks nice or because it looks like something else that is widely accepted as "art".
I see art as something produced by an artist combining genius + technique.
Genius usually implies being original, but also stating what the piece of art represents in contrast to the existing ones (what boundaries it breaks, what pre-conceptions it revolts against, what is its purpose (even if it's purpose is to have no purpose) etc.).
Technique means work and expertise. Sometimes genius is so overwhelming that there is little technique needed. Sometimes technique is so skilled that it overwhelms genius.
The makers of this app are probably artists (there's certainly a lot of genius involved in devising a way to produce such compositions, and work). What you create with your app probably not art though, regardless of how amazingly beautiful it turns out to be.
That's not to say artists may not make use of such tool to make art, but they'll have to find ways to be original. The fact that a button can be clicked to produce a result automatically destroys much of the artistic value of the outcomes. But hey, it's beautiful :)