2001: A Picasso Odyssey
June 8, 2016 6:40 PM Subscribe
2001: A Picasso Odyssey - '2001' rendered in the style of Picasso using Deep Neural Networks based style transfer. More details.
That piece of music, was the composer going for, "Raise everyones hackles and scare the beejesus out of them?" Requiem for insanity!
Is that something like two choirs singing and just slightly offset? Scares the heck out of me every time. Any info on how that was recorded/produced?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:21 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Is that something like two choirs singing and just slightly offset? Scares the heck out of me every time. Any info on how that was recorded/produced?
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 7:21 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
This looks awesome but I gave up about a third of the way through because of the spooky choir/droning bees soundtrack. Recommend muting or playing your own soundtrack.
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 7:27 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 7:27 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
That piece of music, was the composer going for, "Raise everyones hackles and scare the beejesus out of them?"
Pretty much, that music was played in the monolith scenes, we were supposed to raise your hackles and scare the bejesus out of you.
This is the track.
This is the composer.
The combination of Requiem and the deep dream visuals meant that I could only manage watching about 1 minute of linked video.
posted by sparklemotion at 7:27 PM on June 8, 2016 [3 favorites]
Pretty much, that music was played in the monolith scenes, we were supposed to raise your hackles and scare the bejesus out of you.
This is the track.
This is the composer.
The combination of Requiem and the deep dream visuals meant that I could only manage watching about 1 minute of linked video.
posted by sparklemotion at 7:27 PM on June 8, 2016 [3 favorites]
Not quite as cool, but pretty cool: Blade Runner in the style of ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh
posted by Artw at 7:45 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 7:45 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
I feel like 2001 is the wrong sort of movie to get the Picasso treatment. The technology is amazing and the results are beautiful, but the choice of source material made a poor match.
posted by clorox at 7:48 PM on June 8, 2016
posted by clorox at 7:48 PM on June 8, 2016
That blew my mind thoroughly.
posted by bonobothegreat at 7:55 PM on June 8, 2016
posted by bonobothegreat at 7:55 PM on June 8, 2016
Yesssss. Yes yes.
posted by egypturnash at 7:55 PM on June 8, 2016
posted by egypturnash at 7:55 PM on June 8, 2016
Remember 20 years ago you would look at a shitty photo morph and it would BLOW YOUR MIND. This is the new version, an amazingly complicated bit of computer science on its way to being boring and commonplace once implemented in a plugin.
posted by benzenedream at 9:24 PM on June 8, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by benzenedream at 9:24 PM on June 8, 2016 [4 favorites]
It's interesting that it gets Picasso's colors and line quality, but the result is not at all cubist. And once I thought about that, I realized it's just a matter of time until the neural networks are able to figure that out, too.
posted by jjwiseman at 9:45 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by jjwiseman at 9:45 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Why not Fear and Loathe in Deep Dreaming while you're at it?
posted by higginba at 10:06 PM on June 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by higginba at 10:06 PM on June 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Oh god he got it to make
Donald Trump out of hot dogs.
posted by higginba at 10:07 PM on June 8, 2016 [3 favorites]
Donald Trump out of hot dogs.
posted by higginba at 10:07 PM on June 8, 2016 [3 favorites]
Remember 20 years ago you would look at a shitty photo morph and it would BLOW YOUR MIND. This is the new version, an amazingly complicated bit of computer science on its way to being boring and commonplace once implemented in a plugin.
And with Blade Runner in the style of ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh, we're already there. There's something about the geometries in the selected clips from 2001 that made the Picasso "filter" interesting where the "Starry Night" filter applied to Blade Runner scenes. There's too much significant motion to track well with paintings - the scenes work better for me when they're more still or slow moving. Also, "Starry Night" is not a style in as much as it is the appearance of the sky in that style, so it feels even more mis-applied in that clip.
(Yes, I realize these aren't filters in the old sense, but that is how they feel, when seen in series like this.)
posted by filthy light thief at 10:16 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
And with Blade Runner in the style of ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh, we're already there. There's something about the geometries in the selected clips from 2001 that made the Picasso "filter" interesting where the "Starry Night" filter applied to Blade Runner scenes. There's too much significant motion to track well with paintings - the scenes work better for me when they're more still or slow moving. Also, "Starry Night" is not a style in as much as it is the appearance of the sky in that style, so it feels even more mis-applied in that clip.
(Yes, I realize these aren't filters in the old sense, but that is how they feel, when seen in series like this.)
posted by filthy light thief at 10:16 PM on June 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is just like that drug trip I saw in that movie while I was on that drug trip.
posted by killdevil at 10:27 PM on June 8, 2016
posted by killdevil at 10:27 PM on June 8, 2016
What, after all that, no Star Child?
My God, it's full of Fail.
posted by Reverend John at 12:07 AM on June 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
My God, it's full of Fail.
posted by Reverend John at 12:07 AM on June 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
Ligeti's ability to make you feel like barfing up your own soul is the highest musical facility a person could hope to achieve. Nice, approachable music has great worth in its own right but his work is really and truly fantastic in more than one sense and it is no shock that Kubrick chose to rely on him more than once for the definitive musical sound of a film.
It will be a whole other level of achievement when Google et al manage to create a generative musical algorithm that can achieve such heights of measured, psychologically potent artistic dissonance.
posted by cortex at 12:21 AM on June 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
It will be a whole other level of achievement when Google et al manage to create a generative musical algorithm that can achieve such heights of measured, psychologically potent artistic dissonance.
posted by cortex at 12:21 AM on June 9, 2016 [4 favorites]
Wow, there must be some awesome computing muscle behind this. Granted, I was running neural style in a VM, but I can't help but wonder what takes so freaking long and so much memory to render a small image. Makes me wonder if some optimization can be done.
posted by jabah at 7:06 AM on June 9, 2016
posted by jabah at 7:06 AM on June 9, 2016
/remembers waiting a day for a few frames of ray-tracing at tiny res.
posted by Artw at 7:33 AM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 7:33 AM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
Is this what you see when you take CAN-D or CHEW-Z? I can't remember which.
posted by octothorpe at 8:39 AM on June 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 8:39 AM on June 9, 2016 [3 favorites]
This looked really cool, but like all of these it kinda made me ill and distracted with all the wiggling.
posted by books for weapons at 8:42 AM on June 9, 2016
posted by books for weapons at 8:42 AM on June 9, 2016
Pretty much, that music was played in the monolith scenes, we were supposed to raise your hackles and scare the bejesus out of you.
This is the track. yt
This is the composer.
Thank you, Sparklemotion. Never doubt my commitment to you!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:47 AM on June 9, 2016 [2 favorites]
This is the track. yt
This is the composer.
Thank you, Sparklemotion. Never doubt my commitment to you!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 9:47 AM on June 9, 2016 [2 favorites]
distracted with all the wiggling.
Me too. It's a downside of the approach of "split video into a series of frames, deep-dream each frame individually, reassemble processed frames into video": there's no visual continuity between frames.
Solving that problem would make this a fantastic tool for automated rotoscoping. Wondering if you could repurpose chunks of video encoding for this: extract the motion vectors so you can deep-dream only the deltas between similar frames. Hmm.
I like the dark wiggling inside the monolith best of all.
"My God, it's full of artifacts!"
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:48 AM on June 9, 2016
Me too. It's a downside of the approach of "split video into a series of frames, deep-dream each frame individually, reassemble processed frames into video": there's no visual continuity between frames.
Solving that problem would make this a fantastic tool for automated rotoscoping. Wondering if you could repurpose chunks of video encoding for this: extract the motion vectors so you can deep-dream only the deltas between similar frames. Hmm.
I like the dark wiggling inside the monolith best of all.
"My God, it's full of artifacts!"
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:48 AM on June 9, 2016
His next post offers up another nightmareish application of this technology.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:52 AM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:52 AM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
nightmarish application
Man, I think I set a record for noping out.
posted by Reverend John at 11:03 AM on June 9, 2016
Man, I think I set a record for noping out.
posted by Reverend John at 11:03 AM on June 9, 2016
Sparklemotion's post led me to watch a production of Ligeti's Requiem in full. Not for the faint of heart. Looks tortuous to perform for the choirs, and potentially dangerous for the sopranos. I'd never seen a person produce sounds like that, and I'm a little lovestruck.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:44 PM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:44 PM on June 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
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