From sketch to (weird) photo. How?

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Looking at Bob Ross, I think, 'I can do that too.' But the result is usually a pitiful little work that looks like nothing. That no longer matters, because with a bit of endless sketching I can now conjure up a masterpiece in no time.

A computer hardware producer, NVIDIA, has developed something using a self-learning algorithm. Draw a few lines and the algorithm turns them into a photo. A green area becomes grass, a few brown lines become a little house.

You feel just like an artist. The name of this programme also winks at that, with the name GauGAN. Although the painter Gauguin had to put considerably more effort into a little landscape.

The algorithm updates the photo every time you add something new to the image. If you sketch a little lake, or a simple blue area, and later add some trees along the bank, the reflection in the water changes too.

In short, you can make a sketch at the level of a toddler, a house, a tree and an animal, after which the algorithm fills everything in and turns it into a realistic photo. The shadows, lighting and season are all correct. A flowering tree in a snowy landscape does not occur.

Of course, I immediately started colouring myself. I had a good half hour of fun with it. It takes a little figuring out how exactly the algorithm 'thinks', but you discover that as you play. And if you don't like it, you can start again endlessly.

Rocks in the sea look like this:

These are not combined photos

Sketching yourself?

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