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Midjourney AI has already shown us what Tom Holland playing Link in a The Legend of Zelda movie, now check out what the program thinks Antoni Gaudi-designed home appliances would look like. This program is currently only accessible through the research lab’s discord bot and requires you to type in a prompt, similar to other AI art generator tools.
New York-based art collective MSCHF set up an ATM Leaderboard at Art Basel Miami Beach, and while it might look like a standard cash withdrawal machine, there’s an interesting twist. Once used, your account balance and a snapshot is displayed publicly for everyone to see. A man wearing a pink shirt has sat atop the leaderboard since Tuesday with a bank account balance of $2.9-million.
Studio artist David Bowen unveils Plant Machete, which is essentially a machete-wielding robotic arm that swings depending on the electrical signals received. Put simply, the installation comes equipped with a control system that reads and utilizes the electrical signals found in a live philodendron. It then uses an open source micro-controller connected to the plant to translate varying resistance signals across the plant’s leaves.
The NASA Juno spacecraft observed hurricane-like storms rising 30 miles in height and hundreds of miles across the atmosphere of our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. Since the gas giant has no solid surface to slow them down, these storms can last for years and have winds up to 335 miles per hour, resembling a Vincent van Gogh painting at times.
Since AI can already reproduce damaged artworks, the next logical step is having OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 use its new ‘Outpainting’ feature to see outside the frame of famous paintings. Simply put, it essentially extends the original image and creates large-scale images in any aspect ratio. It takes into account the image’s existing visual elements, whether it be shadows, reflections, or textures, to maintain the context of the original image.
The LEGO Ideas (21333) The Starry Night set started out as a fan idea, or more specifically, one designed by Truman Cheng, a 25-year old art fan from Hong Kong. This set has now become a reality in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece ha been reimagined in three-dimensional brick form, with emphasis placed on the artist’s brush strokes and color choice.
ABB Robotics partnered with two world-renowned artists to create the first robot-painted art car in the world using the company’s PixelPaint technology. This allowed the team to recreate 8-year-old art prodigy Advait Kolarkar’s swirling, monochromatic design as well as Dubai-based digital design collective Illusorr’s tri-color geometrical patterns, without human intervention.
NVIDIA’s GauGAN is basically an AI-powered demo capable of photorealistic image generation. Their latest version, GauGAN2, is able to turn any combination of words and drawings into a lifelike image. This means that one can type “lake in front of mountain”, press a button, and a work of art is generated in real-time. By simply changing the text to a “lake in front of snowy mountain” or “forest in front of mountain,” the AI model will instantly modify the image.
Inventor Shane Wighton is back at it again, and this time, he’s created a robot that can paint giant murals on walls. Does it look familiar? That’s because the idea is based on a three-axis CNC machine that has been modified to use a horizontal axis spanning the entire wall, while the vertical axis holds a separate gantry capable of painting a small grid within the larger mural.
Have you ever wondered what your sketch could look like if it was drawn by a skilled artist? If so, NVIDIA’s deep learning model, called GauGAN, does just that by transforming rough doodles into photorealistic masterpieces without any extra effort. It doesn’t need a supercomputer, but rather leverages generative adversarial networks, or GANs, to convert segmentation maps into lifelike images.