ANIMATED STILL FIGURES
I would like to see a drawing program, when one can draw on the screen while shapes spin in 3D. Perhaps one could choose, spin and orient these shapes from a menu of primitives.
VORONOI STYLE
When I transfer the style of a Voronoi image to my figure drawing in Deep Dream Generator, it thickens up my pencil lines. Using Photoshop Elements, I blend the result from Deep Dream Generator with my original figure drawing to get exactly what want.
I created two Voronoi images with this program,
and overlapped them in Photoshop Elements to create the image above.
I then transferred that image to my drawings
ONLINE ART PROGRAMS
There are a lot more free online art programs that will alter my drawings than when I last looked (about 2016). Here are some examples below:
GITHUB PROGRAMS
I trolled GitHub (now owned by Microsoft) for art software, after I realized that a lot of these odd online art programs originated there.
Most of the GitHub programs generated interesting images that I could download and use as style references, to apply to my drawings in Deep Dream Generator.
PIFuHD
PIFuHD is a software demo program in Google's Colaboratory that will convert a 2D photo into a 3D object. It did not work that well using my drawings, but it does work alright with frontal photos of people taken standing up.
AUTOMATED ART GENERATORS
There are a lot of programs that will generate art from scratch, sans artist, and I made a whole blog posting about many online automated art generators.
As an example, I started by downloading a person that does not exist, and uploading her to other online art generators.
DRAWINGS ALTERED IN 3D
I played around in Blender 2.8 to see how I could push my drawings into something different. I noticed that I liked the 3D results that included a hand drawing, more than entirely computer generated 3D images. I am fairly biased, but the computer images seem colder to me.
PAINTINGS
Peter Synek saved a lot of the paintings I was going to toss when I moved to Juarez in 2007. I posted pictures of these salvaged paintings in June:
Then I used the old paintings as style references in Deep Dream Generator. That is, I transferred the style of these paintings to some of my pencil drawings, and was fairly pleased with the results.
3D IN CROSSVIEW
It was easy to create a kind of 3D image in Photoshop Elements. I made a stereoscopic pair of images by slightly shifting one image to the left or right from the other image. When one overlaps these two images -- by crossing their eyes -- one figure will float over in front of the other.
This is a tangible 3D illusion that happens in your head.
ONLINE MODELS
In addition to drawing online every Tuesday night with the Santa Fe Argos group, I also found a couple of websites that offered models to draw -- namely Croquis Cafe and Sketch Daily.
John Tollett made two videos about the drawings from the Santa Fe Tuesday Night Drawing group:
And the sequel:
DEEP DREAM GENERATOR
April Update
Deep Dream Generator upgraded their online AI program to deliver a higher resolution result. I also played with the Settings, to get stronger (and weaker) style transfers.
DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE
A Covid Summer
Days after the July Art Walk in downtown Albuquerque, people started painting graffiti murals on the boarded up windows. I documented the evolution on this blog.
ONLINE SOFTWARE
AND RESOURCES
From June and July
*Online Model References:
- "The Art of Animated GIFs" on unusual info
- Bees and Bombs
- Search for "strange" in Giphy
- I unloaded my animated gif tagging it with "art" and "figure"
- "The Art of Animated GIFs" on unusual info
- Psychedelic GIFs that will Amaze You
- Ummm...
Interactive videos:
- Butter Churn
- Hopalong Orbits Visualizer
- Do a Divd In
- cubes.io
- String Art Generator
- Online String Generator
- Free Picture Stencil Maker
- Pictorem
- Triangulator
- Triangulate Images
- Constellations
- Make Hyperbolic Tilings of Images
- Glitch Tools
- SpaceShip Generator
LINKS
- List of resources from Vibert Thio (vibertthio) on GitHub:
"A curated list of awesome projects, works, people, articles, and resource for creating art (including music) with machine learning."
- Chaoscope Links
- Generative Art Links from Mikael Hvidtfeldt Christensen
- Generative Art Links from Phillip Galanter
- Awesome Creative Coding links by Terkel
- Creative Tools to Generate AI Art from AI Artists
- Generative Digital Art: Tutorials and Inspiration from JotForm
- Generative Art Programs from Bogdan Soban
- 12 Colab Notebooks that Matter by Vlad Alex
- Artists + Machine Intelligence (Medium Article, this too)
- Getting Started with Generative Art by MediaMilitia
- WebGL Playground
- Processing Tutorials
- Art in America article about the history of Generative Art -- The Tools of Generative Art, From Flash to Neural Networks
*July 7, 2020
- Word Art
- The Instant Art Critique Phrase Generator
- Artybollocks Generator
- 500 Letters
- An Automatic Art Title Generator
- Abstract Art Title Generator
- Artwork Name Generator
- Random Art Prompt Generator
OTHER
- LTrees (grow and evolve plants)
- 1D Celluar Automata and Edge of Chaos
- The Top 55 Generative Art Open Source Projects
- Generative Art Links
- Chrome Experiments
- Google Colab
- Creative Tools to Generate AI Art
- Magenta
- Sketch-rnn
- Neen
- Generative Art Links from Syntopia
- 12 Colab Notebooks that matter
- Decentralized AI
- Artists + Machine Intelligence
- Web GL Playground
Voronoi software:
- https://websvg.github.io/svg_voronoi_gen/ (Voronoi pattern generator)
- Interactive Voronoi Diagram Generator (in color)
- Voronator (for 3D file formats)
- Voronoi Editor
- http://www.raymondhill.net/voronoi/rhill-voronoi.html
Stippling Software:
- StippleGen2
- Java (for StippleGen2 to work)
- Photo-Kako.com
- Online Stiple Image Generator (does not work for me)
- Github of above
- Electrobild Pointillism
- ~Photomania Photo Effects
Style2Paints (2.43 GB download):
- YouTube video: Style2Paints - A free, open-source web app that lets anyone colorize art in less than ten clicks!
- YouTube video: AI That Colorizes Manga
Results
- Example after animating the 3D result in Mixamo.
- Mixamo and Blender
- Augmented Reality
- Using Artbreeder first (the AI program) -- imagine using "this person does not exist" AI, when it gives full body images
