Artificial intelligence introduced to @haedre's artwork - insanity results :) Join me on a journey to some alien landscapes. This is Alien Art. This is what happens when you task an artificial intelligence to emulate the style of one of Steem's finest artists. @haedre has an unusual vision which is expressed in his art, an infusion of flesh into robotics, a transmutation of man to machine and back again.

Previous Installments in this series:

• Dreaming of the Willamette series intro
• Into the Realm of the Drowned Queen[Willamette Abstraction 1]
• City of Brass and the Hive Queen [Willamette Abstraction 2]
  

Initial Process

My original photograph of the Willamette River

Every piece of art in this post started as the above macro photography of water ripples.

I introduced my neural network collaborator over at the Deep Dream Generator to my friend @haedre, in the form of this cropped section of @haedre's painting Hypterion II (The union) (left). I tasked the AI to recreate the water ripples in the style of @haedre. What follows is a computer's best attempts at impersonating @haedre drawing water ripples in his inimitable crazy alien biotech style.

First Results

First run

First run, rotated and mirrored

I ran the original output from the Deep Dream Generator back through on itself several times, using the same style image from @haedre's artwork each time. After several trips to dreamland and back, I mirrored the results and cropped out a section that became the new base image for the remaining abstractions in the rest of the post:

@haedre Abstraction Base

I used the above base image with quite a few different style images on trips through the Deep Dream Generator, and layered the results in PhotoShop. Until we figure out faster-than-light travel, PhotoShop and Deep Dream are a wonderful alternative route to alien landscapes :)

Alien Art

Goo Dream Redream

Inception I

Inception II Blockcut

Inception III

Clockwork II BW

Clockwork III

Double Stained

Blue Goo

Gold Goo

Abstract II Dream I