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Certain artists are highly productive and constrain themselves to a particular style and format for their entire careers. Charles Shulz, the creator and artist of the Peanuts comic strip, produced thousands of comics over 50 years. As a result, he is one of the few artists who have enough ‘content’ to train a styleGAN2 model. By extracting each frame from nearly 18,000 comic strips I was able to harvest 63,800 distinct images featuring Charlie, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty and the rest of the gang – plenty of food for the network to chew on. Several hundred hours of computational time later, a network containing the ‘visual DNA’ of Peanuts emerged.
SANT UANT SANT
posted by suetanvil at 11:08 AM on June 22, 2020 [23 favorites]
posted by suetanvil at 11:08 AM on June 22, 2020 [23 favorites]
SANT
(literally every single one of the comics I've generated thus far, over a dozen, features SANT)
posted by aramaic at 11:10 AM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
(literally every single one of the comics I've generated thus far, over a dozen, features SANT)
posted by aramaic at 11:10 AM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
Do Beagles Dream of Electric Suppertime?
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:17 AM on June 22, 2020 [13 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 11:17 AM on June 22, 2020 [13 favorites]
Schulz ran out of ideas after 1972 and just repeated himself after that, so perhaps this wasn’t too hard to pull off.
posted by Melismata at 11:22 AM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by Melismata at 11:22 AM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
Well, that's the stuff of nightmares. Good grief.
posted by jzb at 11:34 AM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by jzb at 11:34 AM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
The text looks like the sound of the adults' voices from the animated version.
posted by mikeand1 at 11:36 AM on June 22, 2020 [20 favorites]
posted by mikeand1 at 11:36 AM on June 22, 2020 [20 favorites]
A lot of this is just cribbed from the 1972 TV special "Don't Eat the Brown Acid, Charlie Brown!"
posted by thelonius at 11:47 AM on June 22, 2020 [27 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 11:47 AM on June 22, 2020 [27 favorites]
Shulz' The Thing.
Watching a simulacrum of Snoopy morph into a simulacrum of Charlie Brown via Linus is really fucking me up. It's all just so perfectly adjacent to normal.
posted by slimepuppy at 11:56 AM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
Watching a simulacrum of Snoopy morph into a simulacrum of Charlie Brown via Linus is really fucking me up. It's all just so perfectly adjacent to normal.
posted by slimepuppy at 11:56 AM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
An Unknown Alien Being acquires a child's forgotten book and mistakenly believes that it depicts proper protocol for interaction with the human world.
The book is a collection of Peanuts comics.
It knows depression better than it knows friendship.
posted by Nossidge at 12:00 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
The book is a collection of Peanuts comics.
It knows depression better than it knows friendship.
posted by Nossidge at 12:00 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
Kind of looks like a mock-Flemish translation of a Peanuts strip.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:02 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:02 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
Ol' Sparky must be spinning in his grave right now. Me, I'm just recoiling in horror.
posted by tommasz at 12:07 PM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by tommasz at 12:07 PM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
AAAAAAAUUGGH!
posted by darkstar at 12:15 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by darkstar at 12:15 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
Ah, the comic-strip version of “Worker and Parasite”
posted by Going To Maine at 12:17 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 12:17 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
Good grief.
posted by Segundus at 12:24 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by Segundus at 12:24 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
They all talk like adults now. Probably because they're older.
posted by Capt. Renault at 12:30 PM on June 22, 2020 [6 favorites]
posted by Capt. Renault at 12:30 PM on June 22, 2020 [6 favorites]
Kolarolarouartwart itovekθ erθ en θienooe..
Words to live by.
posted by biogeo at 1:02 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
Words to live by.
posted by biogeo at 1:02 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
Suprised SANT is a better amalgamation of all the bubbles than RATS
posted by Mchelly at 1:05 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by Mchelly at 1:05 PM on June 22, 2020 [7 favorites]
It looks to me just like a perfect example of how you can train a neural network to do nearly anything - incredibly poorly.
Let me know when they get a neural network that can create something funny.
posted by happyroach at 1:14 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
Let me know when they get a neural network that can create something funny.
posted by happyroach at 1:14 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
I never quite understand how these things work. Is there a "machine learning 101" somewhere out there?
If you fed this thing, say, a panel of "For Better or For Worse," could it redraw it in Schulz's style?
posted by Ampersand692 at 1:36 PM on June 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
If you fed this thing, say, a panel of "For Better or For Worse," could it redraw it in Schulz's style?
posted by Ampersand692 at 1:36 PM on June 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
Let me know when they get a neural network that can create something funny.
That certainly never stopped Charles Schulz. Or Jim Davis.
posted by briank at 1:37 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
That certainly never stopped Charles Schulz. Or Jim Davis.
posted by briank at 1:37 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
It's "Schulz".
posted by oneirodynia at 3:40 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by oneirodynia at 3:40 PM on June 22, 2020 [4 favorites]
I don't know how you work on a project based entirely on someone else's output and then misspell their name.
posted by oneirodynia at 3:42 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by oneirodynia at 3:42 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
It's "Schulz".
The algorithm says it's "BAR DUART DUAKTANI."
posted by Foosnark at 4:00 PM on June 22, 2020 [11 favorites]
The algorithm says it's "BAR DUART DUAKTANI."
posted by Foosnark at 4:00 PM on June 22, 2020 [11 favorites]
KLAATU BARADA NIKTO, CHARLIE BROWN
posted by darkstar at 8:01 PM on June 22, 2020 [13 favorites]
posted by darkstar at 8:01 PM on June 22, 2020 [13 favorites]
OMG Linus delivering Klaatu's final "live in peace or face obliteration" speech like in the Christmas special
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:51 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 8:51 PM on June 22, 2020 [5 favorites]
I do not believe that Charles Schulz's soul has been captured, at least not here. Good grief.
posted by asperity at 9:40 PM on June 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by asperity at 9:40 PM on June 22, 2020 [1 favorite]
Davids Cronenberg and Lynch bring you: "Penutz"
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 10:38 PM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 10:38 PM on June 22, 2020 [3 favorites]
It's like Picasso meets Peanuts meets LSD meets SANT worshippers.
posted by Windopaene at 10:41 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Windopaene at 10:41 PM on June 22, 2020 [2 favorites]
No baseball, football, or kites? At least not that I could generate.
posted by TedW at 8:06 AM on June 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by TedW at 8:06 AM on June 23, 2020 [1 favorite]
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posted by gimonca at 11:03 AM on June 22, 2020 [17 favorites]