Only the imagination grows out of its limitations.
A while ago I played around with some code that was based on the following paper. One of the first things that I tried it on was a sample of the famous wave painting, styled by an actual wave.
A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style
Leon A. Gatys,1,2,3∗Alexander S. Ecker,1,2,4,5Matthias Bethge1,2,41Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscienceand Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of T ̈ubingen, Germany2Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, T ̈ubingen, Germany3Graduate School for Neural Information Processing, T ̈ubingen, Germany4Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, T ̈ubingen, Germany5Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA∗
Fine art, especially painting, humans have mastered the skill to create unique visual experiences through composing a complex interplay between the con-tent and style of an image. Thus far the algorithmic basis of this process is unknown and there exists no artificial system with similar capabilities. How-ever, in other key areas of visual perception such as object and face recognition near-human performance was recently demonstrated by a class of biologically inspired vision models called Deep Neural Networks.1, 2Here we introduce an artificial system based on a Deep Neural Network that creates artistic images of high perceptual quality. The system uses neural representations to sepa-rate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images, providing a neural algorithm for the creation of artistic images. Moreover, in light of the strik-ing similarities between performance-optimised artificial neural networks and biological vision,3–7our work offers a path forward to an algorithmic under-standing of how humans create and perceive artistic imagery.1arXiv:1508.06576v2 [cs.CV] 2 Sep 2015
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576.pdf
See How to Generate Art Demo Command Line Version for more information.