Sunday, December 1, 2019

Morphing Stockholm

Refik Anadol has developed software that can melt one form into another in an ever-evolving flow of dreamlike images. Forms that we think of as stable—such as architecture—rise and fall away like the tides and the flowers.



(Link to YouTube) The system draws on a collection of over 300,000 photographic images. The process uses a generative adversarial network, where one computer network creates images and the other judges whether the result is plausible.
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Latent History – a machine dream of a Stockholm that never was (Thanks, K-Blogg)

6 comments:

Jeff said...

It's a very cool computer project, but at least to me- it's very disconcerting to watch. Maybe we expect things to be stable and consistent and this violates that.

James Gurney said...

It must have been a similar feeling when people first saw time lapse film of clouds, tides, and plant growth.

Andra said...

Oof! That makes me quite seasick.

al mcluckie said...

Makes me think of Alex Kanevsky's work . If Dali were to see this , I could see him being entranced by it , and then perhaps depressed at the thought of a program doing what he did by hand .

Vladimir Venkov said...

That can be quite usefull as an effect in a sci-fi or fantasy movie.

Sketching Artist said...

That was Amazing!!! I was mesmerized and then drawn into the cafe interior morphing part - I'd swear one of those photos was a cafe in Savannah; Gryphon, on the corner of Bull and Charlton Streets.