Automatica

Marble machine 

Style2paint - ChrystaBell

Visual experiment from LuluXXX tranforms a music video using lllyasviel’s code designed to colorize black and white manga:

messing around with style2paint : https://github.com/lllyasviel/style2paints a lot of entropy going on. original video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGjJFRPtdDI Music performed by Twin Peaks cast member Chrysta Bell and David Lynch, written by David Lynch and Dean Hurley.

An online version of Style2paint can be found here

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Elephant-octopus-inspired robotics

Festo’s BionicMotionRobot takes inspiration from the delicate precision movements of an elephant’s trunk and an octopus’ tentacles to create what is undoubtedly the least adorable robot we’ve featured on the MW blog.

Inside the Blockchain Factory: How IBM's Distributed Ledger Work Went Global

IBM is building its blockchain work over a growing number of locations and employees, and Marie Wieck ties it all together. from CoinDesk http://ift.tt/2xbXrkC Donate Bitcoins 191LaSo6DsQFFMr9NQjyHBeYKLogfEYkBa

Alternative Neural Edit

Latest project from @mario-klingemann employs Neural Networks trained on a collection of archive footage to recreate videos using the dataset.

It is confirmed that no human intervention has occured in the processed output, and it is interesting where there are convincing connections between the two (and where there apparently are none):

Destiny Pictures, Alternative Neural Edit, Side by Side Version 

This movie has been automatically collaged by an neural algorithm using the movie that Donald Trump’s gave as a present to Kim Jong Un as the template, replacing all scenes with visually similar scenes from public domain movies found in the internet archive. 

Neural Remake of “Take On Me” by A-Ha

An AI automatically detects the scenes in the source video clip and then replaces them with similar looking archival footage. The process is fully automatic, there are no manual edits.

Neural Reinterpretation of “Sabotage” by the Beastie Boys

An AI automatically detects the scenes in the source video clip and then replaces them with similar looking archival footage.

There are other video examples at Mario’s YouTube page (but some may not be viewable due to music copyright.

If you follow Mario’s Twitter timeline, you can get updated with the latest examples, and follow the evolution of the project [link]

“You think I’m scared of death? I’ve done it a million times, and I’m fucking great at it.”

I can not argue with that

“Making an AI machine play and be naturally curious is key”

- Mark Sagar, Academy Award-winning AI engineer on the future of AI in animation.

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