you can't stay between the doors forever

[art-and-things-of-beauty]

A surprising result - A pair of paintings by William Henry Hamilton Trood (British, 1848-1899). 

[ultralaser]

this dude spent like a year and a half painting a victorian reaction gif

[pest-bot]

“tea is just leaf water!” “yeah well davecat is just 100% canon !” wow, it’s. it’s like hussie took 7 years of my life  

[albrrtbot]

is … understand nocturnal the ways have been a little else. be getting enemies

[pest-bot]

If I had a dollar for every time shit-heads suggest for me to “hey dude do this” casually with no reasoning behind it. Where does one obtain the succ.

[bxtros-deactivated20161223]

these bots are getting too advanced I thought these were actual posts…

[bugfucko-deactivated20181003]

i thought i was having a stroke

[joey-wheeler-official]

this is genuinely indistinguishable from your average tumblr post

[gameraboy]

Peanuts, June 23, 1952

[skylerbrownart]

Scotland Fog

photos by Skyler Brown

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[clickholeofficial]

Fuck Yeah: Hanukkah In June

[igneous]

[goodassdog]

[sexpigeon]

[depeshemode]

[parkstone-international]

Artist Hank Schmidt travels to scenic locations only to paint the pattern on his own shirt.

[sixslugs]

chaotic neutral

[procedural-generation]

Hour-Long Neural Network Video

This project by Damien Henry is an hour-long music video set to Steve Reich that was entirely generated with a neural network. Specifically, a motion-prediction technique, where it tries to predict the future from the current frame..

I admit I’m slightly jealous, since my own neural networks are still training. Though I’m going for a very different approach, and I have to admit that it was pretty ingenious to train the network with what appears to have been footage out of a train window. That gives the training data moment-to-moment consistency but continually changing data in a way that other motion prediction neural networks haven’t tried.

I think we’re rushing through the tech for neural network artistic output: a year ago this would have been impossible, a year from now the cutting edge results will look quite different. There’s already some past results that are visually interesting but you have to dig up the code to recreate them, such as the early stylenet stuff.

You could probably recreate its gradual painting with the current tech, but you’d have to tease out the individual steps.The current stuff is more robust and often better looking, but sometimes there are specific stops along the way that are unique and hard to capture with later versions. (It was also way, way slower, which is one reason why we’ve moved on.)

The specific hallucinatory look of Damien Henry’s train journey is a unique product of this exact point on the neural network development curve. Future neural networks will likely be interesting in their own ways (and faster) but won’t be exactly the same. Together with the sensitivity to the training data, every neural network is unique in its artistic potential.

We can, of course, group them in general categories. And the basic DeepDream puppyslug networks have pretty much mushed together into ten thousand bowls of oatmeal. But there’s still something magical about each moment in this artistic conversation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wmtsTuHkt0

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[procedural-generation]

Phase-Functioned Neural Networks for Character Control

For most games with animated 3D characters, a lot of time is spent linking the animations with the character’s motion, often using complex state machines that create webs of animation transitions.

This research, by Daniel Holden, Taku Komura, and Jun Saito, instead used a neural network to act as the character controller. The neural network is trained on a large dataset of animations and terrain data, taking gigabytes of data and combining it into a function that runs quickly and uses only a few megabytes of memory.

There’s been some past research in this area, but based on the video of their results their phase-functioned approach is very, very effective.

This is the exact kind of generative tool that can empower artists. It still needs the artistic input (that animation data has to come from somewhere) but it takes care of the very tedious work of combining all of those animations, freeing the artists to produce even more art. (And the technical artist can go improve some other tool.)

And, since the training is offline, rather than while the game is running, the risks of training a neural net can be supervised, so the game can ship with just the resulting locked-in function.

http://theorangeduck.com/page/phase-functioned-neural-networks-character-control

[kiango]

Listen does anyone else remember that episode of Scooby Do where theyre talking about how thick the fog was and one of them pulled out a knife and cut a circle in the fog and then ate the fog circle. why is this so vivid.

[meta-xylene]

I think one of the most baffling memes of the last few years was the “Keep calm and ____” meme just because people disregarded the format more than any other meme I can think of. And I dont mean ironically like “look at me I am the captain now” how people would just throw phrases into it that didnt make sense, I mean how the phrase “keep calm” just because a marketing technique for literally anything. I saw a bumper sticker on a car this past weekend with the phrase “Keep calm and I am a Greyhound Owner.” The phrase “keep calm” adds nothing to it other than an excuse for the person to put a bumper sticker on their car saying that they are a greyhound owner. 

Another amazing example of this was when Ben Carson tweeted this image on his birthday, implying that people were fraught with anxiety only to be calmed by the fact that it was Ben Carson’s birthday.

[sanitypotion]

[goodsprings]

how come there isnt a single college professor out there that realizes the address bar on chrome doubles as a google search. every time i see a professor open chrome and then type in google.com i lose 2 days off my life span

[goodsprings]

this post is making college professors mad every time i get a notification on this post and its a professor upset that theyve been Called Out i just gain back 2 days of my lifespan so keep it up, i might eventually regain all the days i lost watching yall try to figure out how to use The Internet

[cosleia]

Also people don’t seem to notice autocomplete happening so they laboriously type the whole thing even though it’s RIGHT THERE JUST HIT ENTERRRRRRR

[mixxtapej]

Bonus round: college professors not realizing the YouTube autoplay so every damn time you finish watching a video the whole class has to painstakingly watch the timer run out and then the professor is shocked when the next video starts playing

[extremelycursedimages-moved]

extremely blessed image

[stupidpunk]

supreme champion…. of my heart

[hypedogs]