HowNotToCreateArt

Inspiration

What's the weirdest art we can create using a computer and automated tools

What it does

The user uploads an image onto a website, after processing an image is returned in the from of "Art".

How we built it

Using Flash for the upload portion of the sight, running google deep dream within docker containers.

Challenges we ran into

Lots. Like seriously nothing went right for us. Flask didn't work like we wanted, deep dream is a pain to get running, it takes ages to process images and don't get us started on OpenCV

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Actually getting deep dream working in an easy to use way. We can just input an image into a docker container which will handle everything as we need it to, then give us a nicely formatted image on the other side

What we learned

How to use some basic flask skills, better understanding of docker, the importance of coffee and sleep

What's next for HowNotToCreateArt

Get automated face swapping working. The project doesn't currently work as intended so actually getting it to do what we wanted would be a bonus. We would also like to be able to merge a users face onto non face objects at some point to create more abstract art. This could be taking a face picture, projecting it onto the sun then applying deep dream filters.

Built With

• bash
• docker
• python