aronimus discovers deep dream and manages to actually make it work!
So after traipsing through the creative desert for some time now aronimus stumbled across this juicy visual goodness that is Googles deep dream. Not being content with looking at the creations of others, or queuing in line on the overloaded servers making this tech available to the masses, yours truly did set his mind into ubergeek mode. The task: with no knowledge of Python and scant knowledge of programming or linux for that matter, make Googles code work on his trusty, if aging, i7.
The code is actually quite easy to use. Getting the linux VM up to run it… not so easy. But after 2 evening’s of brain hurting exertions…. here are some of the early results.
Not sure I’m down with all the dogs that keep coming up. Apparently this is because of the copious amount of cute doggy pics in the the Google dataset. Must look into finding a way to load other datasets. Managed to get what one could only call a hipposlug in the picture above though. Interestingly the Hermit managed to come through looking much the same. Could this be that the image is in the dataset so the neural net actually knows what it is so no need to invent fanciful interpretations? Not sure what that is bottom right. A morbidly obese Jack Russel?
Rather pleased with this rainbow hued kaleidoscope of weirdness.
Defintely pleased with Eketahuna’s Cliff Walk land of mutated forest dwellers.
Because Google were feeling generous I’m feeling generous too.
Here’s how I got it going….
Though with some minor changes.
1. No need to use Powershell. Use the command prompt
2. No need to set the path variable, it does it itself.
3. For those unfamiliar with navigating a filesystem in Linux… If you can’t find the ‘vagrant’ folder once you get the VM running… type “cd /” then “ls”
The last attempt for tonight…
#deepdream
