{"id":6220,"date":"2019-08-06T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2023-04-01T01:36:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:36:50","slug":"gaugan-and-the-new-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/gaugan-and-the-new-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"GauGAN and the new Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GauGAN &#8211; yes it&#8217;s an artistic Generative Adversarial Network with a \ncute name &#8211; can draw a landscape that you specify in very general terms.\n It is so good it just won two awards at this year&#8217;s SIGGRAPH. Is this \nwhere art is heading?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gtech-migrated-from-ad-inserter-placement-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-2703875847\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-1541095137\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/76065\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"26002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/10\/26002.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/10\/26002.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/10\/26002-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><p>GauGAN, NVIDIA&#8217;s real-time AI art application, is a neural network  that has been trained on one million real landscape images and can now  create a real looking landscape image from a user generated segmentation  map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A segmentation map is just a division of the drawing space into sky, \nmountains, sea and so on. The network converts the segmentation map into\n the realistic scene by filling it with appropriate detail that fits \ntogether correctly. In addition it uses style transfer to modify the \nimage into a requested form &#8211; daytime, nighttime, oil painting etc and \nyou can upload your own filters for added &#8220;creativity&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see it in action in the following video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Artist\u2019s New Tool: How the World\u2019s Leading Creators Use GauGAN\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NKFrg9HMYaY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you feel inspired you can also try the software out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/research\/ai-playground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NVIDIA&#8217;s AI Playground<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did and I have to say that the experience was addictive and \ntroubling. I kept on creating new landscapes and trying different \nstyles. Things got interesting when you specified something that was \nunlikely &#8211; like a mountain that had a hole in it through which you could\n see the sky or the sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a certain smeary, almost dreamy, quality about many of the \nresults that you might associate with neural network generated art. All \ngreat fun, but what troubled me was what exactly was I doing? The \n&#8220;degrees of freedom&#8221; of the segmentation map is far lower than if I sit \nin front of a blank canvas with drawing tools &#8211; even more so with \ntraditional digital drawing tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the traditional case I am confronted with a blank canvas and have \nto have some sort of idea, mental image, plan &#8211; something. In this case I\n can create a starting point in no time at all and the blank canvas is \ngone. It is like trying to write poetry where you are given some verses \nand try to improve on them or inject some creativity into them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the SIGGRAPH presentation NVIDIA\u2019s Gavriil Klimov said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cAs an artist it\u2019s extremely valuable  to be able to generate content quickly because artists need to iterate  fast. GauGan allows us to generate our ideas at a speed that was  previously not possible, and this will become a main tool for artists to  use in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/p><cite> Gavriil Klimov  <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems to be a production-line approach to creativity, which might work for some things but not all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also get the source code from NVIDIA for non-commercial use which means you can play around with it all the more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nvidia.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/30\/gaugan-ai-painting\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Pigment of Your Imagination: GauGAN AI Art Tool Receives \u2018Best of Show,\u2019 \u2018Audience Choice\u2019 Awards at SIGGRAPH<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/research\/ai-playground\/\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA&#8217;s AI Playground<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<div class=\"gtech-end-cont\" id=\"gtech-1759834255\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-3495690909\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/17207\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"26001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GauGAN &#8211; yes it&#8217;s an artistic Generative Adversarial Network with a cute name &#8211; can draw a landscape that you specify in very general terms. It is so good it just won two awards at this year&#8217;s SIGGRAPH. Is this where art is heading? GauGAN, NVIDIA&#8217;s real-time AI art application, is a neural network that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1915],"tags":[609],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndocs","tag-nvidia-corporation"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}