Been a little too productive today? Amuse and potentially frighten yourself by seeing what architecture looks like through the warped, creepy lens of Google's "DeepDream," a recently unveiled image recognition software program that essentially displays what artificial neural networks think they are seeing, image-wise.
Technically, there's an app for that: DreamScope, which Gizmodo describes as being "like Instagram on LSD, all powered by Google" that allows you to upload a photograph and then watch it be transformed through 19 discrete filters. While the app boils down the complexity and Do-Androids-Dream-of-Electric-Sheep quality of the original program, it's still a trippy (and entirely legal) way to get a fresh perspective on reality. Upload your experiments in the comments section below, and we'll pick a winner!
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This is fantastic. It's really hard to resist the Trippy filter...
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Nice one, davvid.
Sagrada Familia probably looks like this frequently, anyway, if you're paying close enough attention.
OK I give up, can't get my picture to load...
Yeah, Mr_Wiggin, it was a pain. I had to put it on my FB page first.
Ok got it, something a little more contemporary....
Hahaha awesome!
was reading this about Deep Dream..
"One thing people might not realize (I'm not sure how obvious it is) is that these renders depend strongly on the statistics of the training data used for the ConvNet. In particular you're seeing a lot of dog faces because there is a large number of dog classes in the ImageNet dataset (several hundred classes out of 1000 are dogs), so the ConvNet allocates a lot of its capacity to worrying about their fine-grained features.'
So basically, it loves dogs. Dog-faced Architecture!
so it's Photoshop filters on acid?
They should name that app "WindowPane"
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