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AI can convert almost any 3D scene into the style of a famous artwork

Artificial intelligence can transfer artistic styles onto a 3D scene, including turning a bulldozer into the style of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting

By Jeremy Hsu

6 July 2022

AI can turn 3D images into the style of different artworks

3D images of a bulldozer turned into the style of an image known as Glowing Tiger, Sunday at Port en Bessin by Georges-Pierre Seurat and The Starry Nightby Vincent van Gogh

Kai Zhang, Nick Kolkin, Sai Bi, Fujun Luan, Zexiang Xu, Eli Shechtman, Noah Snavely/Cornell University and Adobe Research

Getting immersed in a 3D-version of your favourite painting could be made possible thanks to an artificial intelligence that can transfer artistic styles onto 3D scenes.

AI has been used before to transfer an artistic style onto images that can be viewed from 360 degrees but the latest project is higher quality in showing the small details when digitally…

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