Archive: Style Transfer

Exploring style transfer via NightCafe in early 2020 – style transfer is a technique where the “style” of one image is applied to the structure of another image. Typically, this is done with actual styles – so applying a style from one painting to another, or from some artwork to a photograph.

That’s boring, and I was interested to see just what could be considered a “style” which lead to a series of experiments.

So for example, below we have Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in the style of raw beef, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother in the style of smoke, a woman swimming with the style of pool water, Grant Wood’s American Gothic in the style of aerial photography of farmland, Munch’s The Scream in the style of a blueberry pie, “Mona Lisa Frank”, Mike Bloomberg in the style of dollar bills, the “I Want To Believe” UFO poster in the style of redacted classified documents, and so on.