Yeah, I’ll have to get rid of that bit of that (very old) article - my bad. That was using really basic .bat scripts anyway so if you wait a little while I’ve got some new scripts that automate my recent experiments.
The first one I’m about just about ready to let loose on the world is one for automating the production of GAN images en-masse. It’s a simple PHP script that just automates naming the output file. While PHP is usually used to create web sites it can also be used as a handy automation tool - it’s a lot more advanced than a bat file and a lot less confusing than powershell plus it runs on anything.
The one that relates to this post is somewhat more complicated (hence writing these in PHP). In order to create truly random numbers the Abstract script takes a 128 bit number and repeatedly divides it by 122 (number of styles DAE has) working out the remainder each time - I’ll explain it properly when I write that one up. Anyway the end result is a script that generates the kind of stuff I show above easily from a given inout image.
This particular script isn’t exactly user-friendly at the moment as I’m still experimenting with the concept. Basically it works very well if the original image is 512x512 but larger images look pretty rubbish (a common failing with DAE). One work-around I’ve been playing with is super-sampling the resultant image which then gives you a 2048x2048 image, that works pretty well as DAE has already mangled the original image so any artefacts don’t show.
I guess the best way to use this particular technique is to take an original, resize it to something in the 512x512 area (I’ll have to play to work out how aspect ratios affect things) then blow it back up.
As I say, you can already do the same thing manually - it’s just mind-numbingly boring.
Something else I wanna try is a fade between images - that may look quite cool.
So - GAN article, sometime this week. Abstract Article - prob after Christmas (I’ve got a game to finish writing as well y’see). I’ll also be doing some YouTube stuff to link with the articles. It’s all on my ToDo list.