Aven’s Deep Dream example with his face was scary. I was wondering if maybe it was just that specific filter he has chosen to use for the example that yielded such a terrifying output.
So the first thing I learned with the example is YOU MUST USE CHROME. I am a safari user, and I couldn’t get my own image uploaded into the sample. I restarted my computer several times before giving in and switching browsers. This was my first attempt using Aven’s presets to see if I could get a result (as the in-class example videos just would not work for me, despite Aven’s continued efforts to help me).
I picked the most aesthetically pleasing option, in this case option 3A over 4A. I liked it slightly better, so I thought maybe the output wouldn’t gross me out as much as the previous example. (I was wrong, but I didn’t know that yet).
So I worked through the example, changing all of the subsequent parts of the process to reflect my 3A filter preference. I felt like the 3A filter gave the whole image this more “comic-like” design, at least from a distance.
Then I decided to do the zoom example, and this is where I stopped liking 3A and Deep Dream altogether. It starts looking as if my favorite actress has horrible scarring from a distance.
Zoom 1 didn’t help. I am happy that this isn’t the “eye” example that Aven did because that was creepy, these squares were nicer, but this zoom still showed her mouth, and it made the now striped patten look odd.
The zoom feature worked well! Further zooming yielded actual results. It’s a relief that at least SOMETHING works in terms of examples. I still haven’t been able to get Style Transfer stuff downloaded, but at least this worked.
UPDATE! Hi! I got the video to work with my old LinkedIn photo! Enjoy!
It is a total of eighty frames. The actual information on how I inputed the variables is here:
