Journey on the Deep Dream
What it is
A six-minute journey through the layers of a neural network using Deep Dream, with each frame fed back into the network starting from random noise and the targeted layer changing every four seconds. It is set to downtempo music.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a vivid example of what Deep Dream and feature visualization look like, resembling psychedelic visuals.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2016, last 2017
What HN commenters said
“are excellent examples.”
Excellent Deep Dream example resembling psychedelic visuals
matt4077, 2017-11 · Recommendation · in “Feature Visualization: How neural nets build up their understanding of images”
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Topics: deep dream, neural networks, feature visualization, generative art, google
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