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25 April 2019
AI has learned to imitate Van Gogh’s styleGL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo
By Donna LuAI has learned how to convincingly paint in the style of masters like Van Gogh and Vermeer.
Dinesh Manocha at the University of Maryland and colleagues trained an AI to replicate the styles of well-known paintings including the pointillist The Eiffel Tower by Georges Seurat, The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, oil paintings by Johannes Vermeer, and Chinese ink landscapes by Ming dynasty painter Shen Zhou.
For each style, the AI was trained with three to 10 reference paintings via a method …