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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 Synthetic ASCII Art |
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3 .2C 80v |
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4 . |
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5 .PP |
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6 Sometimes, an entirely new way to approach problems is found. |
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7 The media is often fond of covering these topics, be it quantum computin… |
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8 With these big toys come people experimenting with it. |
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9 . |
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11 This time we are reviewing the combo of Machine Learning and ASCII art. |
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12 . |
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14 I was expecting to present cute attempts at drawing images with computer… |
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15 Be prepared to see Science at the service of Art. |
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16 . |
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17 .IP "Generated Typewriter Art" |
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18 This research paper (no less!) shows that it is possible to write softwa… |
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19 later typed during 6 hours by a human operator (for this example). |
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20 It is unsettling to see details much smaller than the characters themsel… |
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21 along with shades of grey of various intensities. |
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22 . |
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23 .FS |
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24 https://graphicsinterface.org/wp-content/uploads/gi2021-13.pdf |
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25 .FE |
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27 .IP "Generated ASCII Art in 2010" |
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28 This is possibly the state of the art of 2010 technology. |
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29 It was announced in the yearly conference SIGGRAPH hence presented to an… |
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30 The work of three researchers from Hong Kong, Xuemiao Xu, Linling Zhang … |
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31 The story does not tell whether there ever was a job offer "looking for … |
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32 While the paper contains the complete math used, it also illustrates and… |
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33 And no, it is not exactly machine learning, but hand-crafted strategies,… |
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34 After all, it was published five years before things like Tensor Flow we… |
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37 http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart.html |
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40 .IP "Generated ASCII Art in 2017" |
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41 Is seven years enough time to improve upon that previous acheivement? |
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42 Quoting the previous paper as well as others in its own work, |
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43 Osamu Akiyama of the Osaka Faculty of Medicine kept the ball rolling. |
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44 This throws the big guns of machine learning to reach higher skies. |
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45 Its input data were Japaneses BBS such as 5chan (2chan) or Shitaraba, |
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46 which extends the ASCII set to all of unicode, notably the CJK set. |
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47 If the result of the paper are not enough to convince you, |
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48 the "Bad Apple" often used as a video demo in the Asian market have been… |
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49 Something out of reach if doing every frame by hand. |
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50 The TensorFlow and Python code used is released publicly, |
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51 and an online demo is offered for the curious. |
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52 . |
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53 .FS |
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54 https://nips2017creativity.github.io/doc/ASCII_Art_Synthesis.pdf |
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55 https://nips2017creativity.github.io/ |
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56 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8GulN69Cgbg |
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57 https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmymwx/machine-learning-ascii-art-neural… |
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58 https://github.com/OsciiArt/DeepAA |
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59 .FE |
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61 .PP |
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62 Is it so futile? Not so sure. |
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63 After all, representing anything with a computer is a matter of making a… |
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64 The pixels, the square elements praised for providing a grid to throw da… |
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65 For instance, sub-pixel geometry uses the same techniques as those prese… |
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66 It is, for ASCII art like for anything else, a matter of representing so… |
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67 ASCII art has the ability to fit an image somewhere where there could on… |
