Review of Marion Milner's book "On Not Being Able to Paint"
It is true that when a picture one makes doesnt work sometimes it seems only to be a "tolerably good imitation of something else; in...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Dec 23, 2021
- 4 min
On (not) Being an Artist
As I didn't go to art school (shame, I wanted to, but did medicine instead and then worked on the origin of life and now do artificial...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Dec 17, 2021
- 1 min
The Bigger Picture
Ultimately I wanted to get more information into each picture than is present in a typical CLIP guided image. Here are some attempts to...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Cognitive Grattage: Collaboration with Arnheim 3.0
Some experiments here in treating the output of Arnheim 3.0 as Max Ernst might have treated the marks on a piece of wood or those found...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
"The 12 Days of Christmas" Test Suite
Just as Atari and Go are good test environments for reinforcement learning, there are some nice test environments for generative art, the...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Self-Portraits
"In my Image" , November 2021 "The Baptism of Christ", November 2021 "David Hockney", November 2021
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 20, 2021
- 1 min
Visit Ceylon
I've been reading "Return to Sri-Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land" by Razeen Sally who had a strangely similar life to me having...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 14, 2021
- 1 min
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke in Ovary
I used to come and see Richard Dadd's paintings at the Tate Britain as a child. I loved the hierarchical complexity of it, and associated...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
Metalogue 6: Why a swan?
Thanks to Gregory Bateson for his beautiful book "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". As I'm still in the process of trying to understand what...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Nov 10, 2021
- 1 min
Compositional Works and Open Sourced Arnheim 2.0
Our new code (which modifies the Arnheim 2.0 code we open-sourced today) allows us to make collages using CLIP as an evaluator. Some very...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- May 24, 2021
- 1 min
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2021 Submission
Today I submitted these two pieces to the RA summer show. All the work is done by Arnheim 1.0, in the sense that it is Arnheim 1.0 that...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- May 8, 2021
- 2 min
What makes a good composition and why?
What is a good composition? There are many theories, to take one, consider Arnheim's book "The Power of the Center" which proposes that...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
Arnheim 1.0 overpainting on photographs
Using Arnheim 1.0 [see prev. blog post and paper here] I've been doing some experiments today with overpainting on photographs. Can A1.0...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Apr 28, 2021
- 7 min
Neural Visual Grammars + Dual Encoder Evaluation = Jungle in the Tiger
The image below was produced by a neural L-system evolved to produce images that satisfy the text description "Jungle in the Tiger"...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Feb 17, 2021
- 4 min
Life After Death, GPT-3, the Narrative of Self, and Schizophrenia
At first it seemed I was a paranoid doctor who was being treated for a heart condition, a serious one. But then I think I was his son. My...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Feb 2, 2021
- 8 min
The Doodle: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Drawing
The doodle is a fascinating thing. It is produced unconsciously. Maybe it is the visual equivalent of stream of consciousness thinking,...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Feb 1, 2021
- 6 min
AARON by Harold Cohen: The Doodle and Human-Like Abstract Drawing
This post continues to think about generative procedures G which the artificial artist could use to produce marks. All the images I'd...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Jan 23, 2021
- 8 min
Minimal Generative Algorithms for Drawing Lines
What generative rules (G) can the artificial artist use to produce images? During my recovery from coronavirus in April 2020 confined to...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Jan 23, 2021
- 4 min
Ambiguity in Art and the work of Aaron Hertzman
It was a pleasure to find the work of Aaron Hertzman via the Neurips 2020 workshop on creativity. His talk addresses some issues...
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Chrisantha Fernando
- Jan 22, 2021
- 5 min
Evolving Supra-Normal Art using Pre-trained Neural Networks as Aesthetic Selectors
Let us generalize the work of Tom White and others who have used stochastic search to produce art works (images) that optimize the class...
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