A Computer Paints A Rembrandt, And It Looks Just Like The Real Thing
The new project, The Next Rembrandt, is technically a commercial. As TNW points out, ING Bank, working with Amsterdam-based advertising agency J Walter Thompson, footed the bill.
With the help of coders and academics, over 300 original Rembrandt portraits were scanned, from which image analysis specialists analyzed both stroke style and face shapes. With this data, they built an algorithm that could recreate an entirely new, hypothetical subject that Rembrandt may have painted, in his own style. Then the image was painted, layer by layer, by a 3-D printer, so that the final product had all of the texture of a real painting, applied stroke by stroke. Ambitious work for an ad....