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AI engineer, digital artist, public speaker, online educator and co-founder of @eden_art_ and https://t.co/BDW8z5h0Fd.

Oct 6, 2021, 7 tweets

Note to self: don't use default matplotlib colormaps to make digital art๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜…

New samples from my 'color-quantized VQGAN' are looking great!

Here's "๐‘จ๐’„๐’„๐’๐’“๐’…๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐‘พ๐’Š๐’•๐’•๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’Š๐’, ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’Š๐’„๐’•๐’–๐’“๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‚ ๐’Ž๐’๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š"

#clip #AIart

"๐’Ž๐’š ๐’‰๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’†"

"๐‘ต๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’•๐’Ž๐’‚๐’“๐’†"

"๐‘ฐ๐’๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’"

"๐’‚ ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’…๐’†๐’Ž๐’๐’„๐’“๐’‚๐’„๐’š ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’๐’˜๐’” ๐’๐’Š๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’•๐’“๐’†๐’†, ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’๐’•๐’•๐’๐’Ž ๐’–๐’‘"
Quote by @drvandanashiva

"๐‘ฎ๐’๐’๐’…๐’†๐’ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’”"

For the collectors: I've minted some of these on my HEC: hicetnunc.xyz/xander

For the techies:
Turns out sending gradients straight through this rgb-quantization is not great for stability, so I'm also minimizing mean(quant_distances) to keep raw img close to quantized one!

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