{"id":6758,"date":"2015-09-05T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T21:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2015-09-13T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T21:15:37","slug":"you-aint-no-picasso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/05\/you-aint-no-picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"You Ain&#8217;t No Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/innovations\/wp\/2015\/08\/31\/this-algorithm-can-create-a-new-van-gogh-or-picasso-in-just-an-hour\/\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>This algorithm can create a new Van Gogh or Picasso in just an hour<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"pb-byline\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/matt-mcfarland\" target=\"_blank\">Matt McFarland<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/innovations\/files\/2015\/08\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-31-at-10.06.07-AM.png&amp;w=1484\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em><span class=\"pb-caption\">The algorithm was given this photo of buildings, left, and a copy of Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Starry Night.\u201d In about an hour it taught itself to mimic Van Gogh\u2019s style, and apply it to the photo of the buildings. (University of Tuebingen)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For great artists, creating a masterpiece is the\u00a0culmination of a career. Years of practice, creative musings and experimentation with styles build up to the genesis\u00a0of something truly original and timeless.<\/p>\n<p>A story is often told about Pablo Picasso charging an enormous sum for a portrait. The physical act of drawing it took only a few moments, so the subject complained to Picasso. He is said to have responded, \u201cMadame, it took me my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the great art of yesteryear was an exhaustive process to create, today the style of those masters can be mimicked in minutes. Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1508.06576\" target=\"_blank\">German researchers<\/a> released a paper detailing how a computer algorithm could be used to pump out\u00a0images borrowing the styles of the world\u2019s greatest artists.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/innovations\/wp\/2015\/08\/31\/this-algorithm-can-create-a-new-van-gogh-or-picasso-in-just-an-hour\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Washington Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post This algorithm can create a new Van Gogh or Picasso in just an hour By Matt McFarland The algorithm was given this photo of buildings, left, and a copy of Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s \u201cThe Starry Night.\u201d In about an hour it taught itself to mimic Van Gogh\u2019s style, and apply it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}