I just gave the on-line GauGAN a try after seeing Frenchy's posting. After 30 minutes I have this old road in the hills:
Same input drawing, but this output below mimics the style of an unrelated reference image - with just the click of a button! Notice the bright sun highlights the hill in the background as well as the rocks & vegetation in the foreground.
After 1 hour of practice - a river & some mountains & some foggy mist: Welcome to Washington State ! Using Affinity Photo, I made a curves adjustment and added a gradient to bring some blue into the sky. Warning: This program is addictive :)
The original output showed two clouds on the right, as per my drawing. When I selected a reference drawing to mimic, the clouds were gone. My input drawing becomes a recommendation and the AI decides what is best :)
Me: Add two clouds on the right, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Ed. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Me: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is, just as well as I do.
I'm modeling a car in MoI and have a specific background plate in mind for rendering.
After this little experiment I'm encouraged to practice more. This program along with some post editing in Affinity Photo may get me what I want.
For the sake of completeness, I mean "automatic computer generated art", that is every kind of digital contents not directly created by artists but merely created by mathematical algorithms written by developers and scientists.
That kind of content, for me, is absolutely NOT art.
Seems the ED's image is entierely controled by him...place, form, nature of type of filling...
he don't say its art, he said that is photo as background for some objects! ;)
Well, this Monkey example is used often. But I don't think a monkey could do that,
in the end people are needed to make these pictures and even more
important to evaluate them what no monkey and no software could do.
Besides, I find it difficult to say what is art and what is not nowadays.
Why not just stay open for new possibilities.
I think something like this can be used to visualize ideas? Or as a
template for a picture that is painted by yourself.
You can group strokes with layers in MagicaCSG, and the order of the strokes list is also important for different results (which strokes are affected by other strokes).
First try.png