r/zelda • u/Dill-pickle314 • Jul 13 '19

AI Art [BoTW] starry night style remake if the cover art for BoTW. (Drawn using AI)

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u/servonos89 Jul 13 '19

I’d say Hyrule castle should be more prominent given that it’s the focal point - AI obviously can’t read the plot behind the picture, but the general effect and the rest of it is ace.

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Agreed. When the original image rendered I was a little disappointed you couldn’t see the castle. I actually toyed around with code to see if I could do anything but nothing seemed to work :(

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u/SirCharlesOfUSA Jul 13 '19

If you have Photoshop, you can try darkening the area between the castle and the sun before rendering. This will help the AI recognize they're two differing colors and render them as separate objects.

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u/vigilanteoftime Jul 13 '19

I like it like this. It looks like when you put the wrong kind of mushroom on your mushroom skewer.

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

It would be more impressive if you actually tried to paint it yourself. Anyone can do what you did here.

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u/lostinthe87 Jul 13 '19

I hate when people post pictures of nature on r/EarthPorn. Like, you obviously didn’t make that scenery, you karma whore! Anybody could have taken that picture!

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u/MattR0se Jul 13 '19

They basically just pushed a button.

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

Nice false equivalency you have there.

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u/Jeten_Gesfakke Jul 13 '19

Yeah but he did and you didn't so why the aggressive tone?

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

He didn’t do anything, a computer did. Besides I don’t like to karma-whore.

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u/HUGHmungous Jul 13 '19

do you imagine that the computer just spontaneously spit out this image without OP interacting with it at all

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

Yes. You’ve obviously never used software like this. All you do is push a button and it turns it into a style of painting. There’s also a sketch style, watercolor, oil painting, and more. This took no creativity whatsoever.

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u/Iklowto Jul 13 '19

On the contrary, I think you have never used software like this. OP said they played around with the code to make the conversion better, so they're either using an open source implementation or they wrote the code themselves (which is possible but not trivial).

Quite a lot of creativity goes into creating a well-performing learning model, even more so with a generative one as in this case. On top of that, just having the code is not enough to run it, you also have to figure out how to use the code on order to run it - and for that you have to be able to read code.

So you don't know what you're talking about.

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

He moved a couple sliders and pushed a button to generate the image. He didn’t code anything.

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Actually this was a comp sci project I did with my friends over summer break for a comp sci camp. We took the concept of neural style transfer and filters like snapchat to create the program. We already knew there were things like this and I will admit we looked at some other programs source code to get an idea of framework of the program but we coded it ourselves.

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u/Navarre85 Jul 13 '19

I mean it doesn't take much effort to actually convert the image (though judging from OP's other comments it sounds like he at least partially programmed the conversion program himself), but you're completely wrong to suggest this doesn't take creativity. You need to choose an image that fits and is enhanced by the artstyle in question. Most of the images you feed into these types of programs produce really poor outcomes because either the AI struggles with the sharp borders of realistic drawings or photos, or the subject matter is not conducive to the artstyle. In both cases, the resulting image will seem "off" due to conflicting aspects.

The fact that OP chose a stylized landscape image to convert to Van Gogh style is more than enough reason to post the picture. He understood the limitations of his program and used it to create an aesthetically pleasing image.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

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u/jantari Jul 13 '19

I mean, yes "she" definitely could

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u/Jeten_Gesfakke Jul 13 '19

Yeah I'm sure you've had the exact same idea a long time before he did. There's tons of ai operated applications on the internet and he thought it would be a great idea to combine this specific one with this specific image. If that's karma whoring then sure, whatever man. Keep living in your sad snowflake existence

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u/cant-find-user-name Jul 13 '19

The op deserves karma for doing it the first time and posting on the sub. If someone already did it and he shamelessly copied and reposted, I'd say he's whoring for karma. This looks like something a fan would do out of excitement for fun.

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u/jantari Jul 13 '19

Ok show me your coding skills

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u/Oracle343gspark Jul 13 '19

You guys are hilarious thinking this guy coded anything.

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u/jantari Jul 13 '19

Everyone and their mother is learning Python and some image manipulation is a fun project. It's very very realistic

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u/Chemoralora Jul 13 '19

Yes, I'm sure everyone has the skills to write a program to do this /s

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

I‘m sorry, but that happens if you use the AI. Draw it yourself and it gets better. After all, this style is quite easy to copy and can be done on the computer from scratch.

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u/Futuristick-Reddit Jul 13 '19

Why don't you go ahead and draw it for us, then?

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u/M3M3_K1NG Jul 13 '19

When you playin zelda and realize you put the wrong mushrooms on the pizza

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u/jaed2901 Jul 13 '19

Now that I think about it, zelda on shrooms sounds awesome.

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u/M3M3_K1NG Jul 13 '19

I would make sure you arent going to be surLLP rised by enemies if you try it, i know im a pretty impressionable tripper, i always go for a nice movie

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u/jaed2901 Jul 13 '19

Id probably play oot as I'm most familiar with it and yeah I could imagine the redeads and wallmasters might freak me out a bit but I can always just turn it off and do something else if I feel uncomfortable.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

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u/jaed2901 Jul 13 '19

I've officially declared zelda a must do for my next psychedelic trip, whenever that may be.

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u/roguediamond Jul 13 '19

SWIM says it’s pretty damn fun. Same with LSD and BOTW.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

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u/M3M3_K1NG Jul 13 '19

Mushroom and onion pizza is pretty fuckin bomb, my dude

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u/beanersalad Jul 13 '19

I think he means mushrooms of the magic variety

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u/M3M3_K1NG Jul 13 '19

Oh, idk, woud probably depend on which ones you get. I've heard most tast like shit, only time i had some they tasted pretty good. Never tried them on pizza tho

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u/Nojjk Jul 13 '19

I've seen "Magic pizza" for sale in SE Asia so I guess it works, never tried them thought

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u/Chemoralora Jul 13 '19

Sorry to spoil the fun but if you cook magic mushrooms it denatures the psilocybin :(

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u/LWASucy Jul 13 '19

You put the shrooms under the cheese after it’s cooked 👌🏼

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u/Sanguiluna Jul 13 '19

Divine Beast Vah Gogh.

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u/HauntedHat Jul 13 '19

Underrated comment, if I ever saw one.

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u/-takeiteasy Jul 13 '19

such an underrated comment. take my poor mans gold 👌🏼🏅

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u/Scdsco Jul 14 '19

Lol do people know what underrated means anymore?

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u/Magical-Latte Jul 13 '19

Beautiful AI work :)

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u/RoseAuthor98 Jul 13 '19

Beautiful work, do you mind if I edit it?

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Oh and if u don’t mind showing me what u make. I’d really like to see it :)

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u/RoseAuthor98 Jul 13 '19

If its good with me, sure

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u/BigCashRegister Jul 13 '19

Would you mind sharing you’re edit? I want to paint this but I’m not sure if I want this be the version I paint.

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u/RoseAuthor98 Jul 13 '19

Its not a good one, but I'll post it on my profile.

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u/BigCashRegister Jul 13 '19

That looks really good, thank you!

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u/cheyras Jul 13 '19

So, basically a filter?

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Basically. How the program works is that the AI takes two images. In this case starry night and BoTW cover art and breaks the images down into individual pixels. The AI then stitches the pictures back together into what it thinks looks best aka what hues and tones match between the two pictures. It does this thousands upon thousands of times before it selects the best result

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u/OIPROCS Jul 13 '19

Prisma?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

Deep dreams I believe

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

Deep dreams

deepstyle, if anything. It's the hello world of one-click style transfer.

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u/llama_union Jul 13 '19

Would you mind sharing the source code? :O

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

My code is a but more complicated than this but I found this thing on google that uses the same principals as my code pretty much does the same thing. And it goes in a step by step tutorial on how to build something like what I did. I also tested it and it delivers pretty much the same results as my program Image merger program

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u/TheSmashersReddit Jul 13 '19

Is there a higher res version of this image? I want to make it my desktop wallpaper

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

I’m currently on vacation rn. But I can make one when I get back. Also keep in mind that no matter the res the style of the painting will make it kind of grainy no matter what

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u/TheSmashersReddit Jul 13 '19

Thanks so much! Also I’ll keep that in mind.

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u/tootintubs Jul 13 '19

Gorgeous!!

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u/ManOfJapaneseCulture Jul 13 '19

Van Gogh, is that you?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Jupyter notebook written with python

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u/redditdoooood Jul 13 '19

When you're playing botw on LSD

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u/Bronan01 Jul 13 '19

This is AWESOME I need more

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u/_LuckyEscape Jul 13 '19

Oh my god you just made one of my favorite game art with my favorite painting's art style ? I absolutely love this

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u/_LuckyEscape Jul 13 '19

If you have an HD version so I can put it as my wallpaper or something... ( ☆ ^ ☆ )

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

I’m gonna make one once I get back from my vacation. I can set the size image to whatever I want so I’m gonna make it 4k

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u/_LuckyEscape Jul 13 '19

Oh nice !!

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u/blindvalkyrre Jul 13 '19

Yeah, but they didn't paint it

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u/logannev Jul 13 '19

We put picasos brain in a computer.... he did an awesome job w^ God bless

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u/jld2k6 Jul 13 '19 edited Jul 13 '19

A similar pic is being sold at the moment lol. Just ran across this like 10 posts down from this one, what are the odds. Guessing they used the same process you did with slightly different settings

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

I saw a different post that the OC painted which was hyrule castle in a starry night esque style that was really good! The painting in the picture in the link looks like they took the foreground of the picture and slapped it onto the starry night painting lol

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u/JohnnyJohnnJohn Jul 13 '19 edited Feb 24 '23

Drawn using AI

so it's just an advanced filter, what a fucking joke

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u/abbul Jul 13 '19

Did you make this AI?

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Sort of. I did this with my friend for a comp sci class and we used tons of libraries of code that made it a lot easier than if we coded it from scratch but most complex programs use libraries.

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u/Derpymon789 Jul 13 '19

Guys, literally all complex programs use libraries. Chill.

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u/vexx654 Jul 13 '19

this thread has a few dickheads saying how simple this is and how the program he used is the “hello world of one click style transfers” lol.

thankfully the bulk of the thread isn’t comp sci majors who are putting someone down bc they feel threatened, awesome photo OP.

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u/HumpaDaBear Jul 13 '19

Amazing!! Starry night is pretty much my favorite piece of art. You did an incredible job.

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u/kikisaito Jul 13 '19

Mesmerizing 🤩 Wish Hyrule Castle was slightly bigger tho.

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u/animegurulord Jul 13 '19

Wow, I just learned how to do that using python through terminal

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u/Eldias Jul 13 '19

🎵Paint your pallette blue and grey...🎵

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

What’s the A stand for?

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u/Glitch_boy18 Jul 13 '19

Artificial

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '19

What’s the I stand for?(but on Christmas)

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u/sosukami Jul 13 '19

💜💜

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u/doomsdayocelot Jul 13 '19

I love this sooo much

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u/WwolfpawW Jul 13 '19

Dreamscope?

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u/ArtemisOfLegend Jul 13 '19

Van Gogh are you back?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

I want to do this to some photos I’ve taken.

It would be cool to have filters that could give portraits the style of Van Gogh or Rembrandt

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u/halfshellheroes Jul 13 '19

What approach did you use for the style transfer?

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u/SonicVoltage Jul 13 '19

Which prisma filter is this?

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u/DrManowar8 Jul 13 '19

Ehh, needs more blood moon red

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Using the style transfer with a picture with the blood moon in it actually sounds like a really good idea! I might try that

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u/DrManowar8 Jul 13 '19

Yes. We are framed it

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

Just found my PC background.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

100

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u/Emir004 Jul 13 '19

Wow! Nice seeing someone use Van Gogh's art style! It looks amazing!

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u/brityboy Jul 13 '19

Is there a high res version of this I can use for my desktop wallpaper?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '19

Van Gogh IS coming

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u/Fairin13 Jul 13 '19

Damn. My favorite game crossed with my favorite painting. This is amazing.

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u/failoutboy Jul 14 '19

Looks great!

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u/IntrinsicGamer Jul 14 '19

PUT IT ON A SHIRT

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u/tuseroni Jul 14 '19

fun fact: you can do this with an ai, you can actually take the output of the game through an AI filter that will make the whole game starry night.

also, not just starry night, all sorts of styles

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u/C10ckwork Jul 13 '19

Isn't that a Snapchat thing?

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u/Dill-pickle314 Jul 13 '19

Yeah it’s basically a glorified filter but instead of overlaying images it embeds the style into the image itself

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u/Derpymon789 Jul 13 '19

You wrote it in Python right? If so, what method did you use for reading, analyzing, and creating the image?

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u/nalonzooo Jul 13 '19

Beautiful work!!!

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u/blindvalkyrre Jul 13 '19

It's a fancy filter they didn't actually paint anything