Thread by @xsteenbrugge

Note to self: don't use default matplotlib colormaps to make digital art🤦‍♂️😅

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

Here's "𝑨𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏, 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚"

#clip #AIart

https://twitter.com/xsteenbrugge/status/1445327569847521281

"𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆"

"𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒆"

"𝑰𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏"

"𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒖𝒑"
Quote by @drvandanashiva

"𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔"

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!