Cartooning Comes To Nightmarish Life With Pix2Pix Imaging
by Caleb GoellnerRemember back in 2015 when Google's DeepDream showed us how AI sees the world? Principally as stoner-peacock-feather-eyeball-cascade-from-Hellraiser? Well, thanks to TensorFlow -- Google's open-source machine learning tech -- we have something even more wonderful (and possibly weirder) to enjoy in 2017: Pix2Pix.
Inspired by Edges2Cats, Pix2Pix uses image-to-image tech to turn line art into a photo. It basically establishes a relationship between a given set of images and a drawing. Wielding crazy math (or magic), it gives a user the ability to draw whatever they want into a box, then process it into a photo-realistic image presented in another box. Edges2Cats creator Christopher Hesse actually created several flavors of these mind-bending modules and THEY ARE ALL WILD. So wild that, naturally, we had to try them on some GoComics stars. Apologies to all of our celebrated cartoonists. What I've done, I've done for science.
Charlie Brown of Peanuts
Jason from FoxTrot
Sarah of Sarah's Scribbles
Stephan Pastis as his Pearls Before Swine alter ego
Joey Alison Sayers of Joey Alison Sayers Comics
Big Nate's Nate Wright
Cathy run through edges2handbags, given her affection for them
Actually, Garfield looks better with Edges2Cats...
Webcomic Name creator Alex Norris already made one himself!
in case you ever wondered what blob and "oh no" speech bubble would look like if they were human pic.twitter.com/Qowz1leMXO
— Alex Norris (@dorrismccomics) June 5, 2017
We ran Shoe's Cosmo Fishhawk through Edges2Shoes, for a surprisingly apt rendering!
You can melt your mind with your own creations at Pix2Pix.
Mr. Galvin over 7 years ago
Where’s nate wright!
LizP2323 over 7 years ago
Yikes!
BiggerNate91 over 7 years ago
Okay… terrifying.
Mostly Water Premium Member over 7 years ago
Fascinating. http://fotogenerator.npocloud.nl
Robert Pannett over 7 years ago
Cathy is an improvement..
An Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove over 7 years ago
did you have it on “Lovecraft” filter
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 7 years ago
That is so incredibly disturbing!
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly over 7 years ago
If only I could relive that moment and not do it?!?!