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    More Augmented Reality Software That Will Change the Future

    A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa

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    Image of Ursus Maritimus Ursus Maritimus
    07/01/09

    In reply to More Augmented Reality Software That Will Change the Future
    George Orwell is turning in his grave.
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    Image of Bret Mogilefsky Bret Mogilefsky
    07/01/09

    In reply to More Augmented Reality Software That Will Change the Future
    Thanks for following up the previous post with mention of Wikitude AR! :)
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/01/09

    @Bret Mogilefsky: Of course! Can't wait to play around with it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    Oddly this program takes three times as many iterations to produce Picasso's Guernica.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    Or, if you have photoshop, you can just reverse engineer the effect in 5 minutes, with a better, sexier Mona.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/10/08

    @Grrsn Dn: Oh Mona.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    Sounds very cool. I haven't read the article, so this is probably a dumb question, but is he just using a home computer for this, or some big iron at a college?
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/10/08

    @zenpoet: I suppose you could use any source image for it to work off of, so what if you used a picture of a single cell organsim, then you would have a computer using evolution to create a devolved or un-evolved image. Sweet.
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    Image of ErrolDadillac ErrolDadillac
    12/10/08

    @zenpoet: single-celled organisms are just as evolved as human beings (the bacteria that exist today replaced the older, outdated, and unfit types of bacteria). Devolution is kind of an invalid term, because it implies that some things exist at a "high" state of evolution that things can move away from. All organisms have evolved to fill a niche.
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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    12/10/08

    @ErrolDadillac: Obviously you never saw the Super Mario Brothers movie then, because that conclusively proved that one can de-evolve.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    So the adage is true. If you stick a million Pentiums in a million Dells, soon they will create the Mona Lisa.
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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    I'm pretty sure my computer can draw that too. It's called copy and paste.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    A MILLION? Imagine if da Vinci went through that many.


    Took the guy a weekend, eh? That's pretty cool. I'd argue that Step 1 needs more clarification on the "mutate slightly" part. Is it based on previous iterations to come up with the new sequence? If so, then I'd say it's evolutionary programming...

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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    Interesting discussion on this going on at hackaday.

    [hackaday.com]
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    Image of foolish-rain foolish-rain
    12/10/08

    In reply to A Computer Program That Taught Itself to Draw the Mona Lisa
    Isn't this exactly how Skynet gets started?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/10/08

    @foolish-rain: "We really only wanted to recreate beautiful works of art. Never really intended the whole post-apocalyptic death of the human race wasteland thing. Our bad!"
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    12/10/08

    @foolish-rain: i don't like my computaters doin' none of that codflabbit learnin'!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/10/08

    @BeccaThePromoMami: Computaters sound friggin delicious right about now. And, uh, cod...flabbit?
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    12/10/08

    @crashedpc: that was my e-Yosimite Sam impression...... i guess it doesn't translate well to the internets....


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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    12/10/08

    @BeccaThePromoMami: Instant mental reconnect! Ah sees it now!
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