
Currents 078: John Ash on AI Art Tools
The Jim Rutt Show
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How to Interact With Patterns
The first thing that we had available with style transfer and the first useful iteration of that was Prisma in about 2016. Style transfer took individual images and captured the essence of their paint strokes in it then would re interpolate an image with those paint strokes. They were only 480 by 480 pixels so it wasn't enough to do the whole thing. Now I don't necessarily need a human. I could just load up like Topaz Giga pixel AI and I can take like something that's a thousand pixels to, you know, full wall image. But we've really rapidly increased our capacity to manipulate patterns using these tools.
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