To ensure I don’t overtax the system with the new GT 730, I stripped out the old surround sound audio card and 2TB media drive I no longer need.ĭreamer is stripped down, ready to get a little air blast to get rid of the dust. I removed the old video card and a couple other components. I replaced it with a different version of the same card (DDR5 instead of DDR3) that is compatible with those tools. There are two dual-monitor workspaces set up, one with another Inspiron for doing basic computing (blogging, Etsy, surfing, taxes, etc.), the other with a laptop dock for telework.Īfter playing with the new configuration, I discovered the card wasn’t compatible with some other tools I decided I wanted to use. Everything from computer repair to jewelry design to electronics tinkering to watercolor painting goes on in here. The results of the last two sets of images were accomplished by feeding repeating the process over the image several times to refine the dream features (the first is of bent over trees I call “the grove,” and the second is a red rock landscape scene of the Midgely Bridge area near Sedona, Arizona).īattlestation shot. The images are shown here with the original photo on the left and “deep dream” result on the right.

Deep Dream Galleryīelow is a gallery of a few of my favorite results. The system can be used to create beautiful, artistic effects, to psychedelic, dreamlike effects. From this Google Deep Dream python notebook, I’m working on hacking together some scripts to do batch processing to explore various results and generated interesting animations.

Now, “Dreamer” is an Ubuntu system with the tools to do Deep Dream processing.ĭeep Dream is a computer-generated neural network art system developed by Google based on deep learning image classification research. The box originally ran boxee alpha, then XBMC when boxee’s distro went away, then lately SteamOS (it’s predecessor was MythTV, and the heir apparent is Chromecast). I repurposed my old home theater system into a Deep Dream processing system.

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