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A Convincing Rembrandt Painting Crafted With 3-D Printing : All Tech Considered A newly unveiled portrait bearing all the hallmarks of the Dutch master is actually the result of 18 months of analysis of 346 of his paintings, plus 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
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A 'New' Rembrandt: From The Frontiers Of AI And Not The Artist's Atelier
A "new" Rembrandt portrait is actually the creation of a 3-D printer — and a statistical analysis of 346 paintings by the Dutch master. Robert Harrison/J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam hide caption
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A "new" Rembrandt portrait is actually the creation of a 3-D printer — and a statistical analysis of 346 paintings by the Dutch master.
Robert Harrison/J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam
A new Rembrandt painting unveiled in Amsterdam Tuesday has the tech world buzzing more than the art world.
That's because the painting is the creation of a 3-D printer — and not the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn himself, who has been dead for almost 450 years.
"The Next Rembrandt," as it's been dubbed, was the brainchild of Bas Korsten, creative director at the advertising firm J. Walter Thompson in Amsterdam.
A digital reconstruction of the face of Jesus Christ — based on skulls found in Jerusalem — inspired Korsten, he says.
"I thought, well, if you can basically take historical data and then create something new out of it, why can't we distill the artistic DNA of a painter out of his body of work and create a new artwork out of that?" Korsten tells NPR's Audie Cornish.
"And that's how the idea was born."
Bas Korsten, executive creative director of the J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam agency, stands with the painting at its unveiling Tuesday in Amsterdam. Robert Harrison/J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam hide caption
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Bas Korsten, executive creative director of the J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam agency, stands with the painting at its unveiling Tuesday in Amsterdam.
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The new portrait is the product of 18 months of analysis of 346 paintings and 150 gigabytes of digitally rendered graphics.
Everything about the painting — from the subject matter (a Caucasian man between the age of 30 and 40) to his clothes (black, wide-brimmed hat, black shirt and white collar), facial hair (small mustache and goatee) and even the way his face is positioned (facing right) — was distilled from Rembrandt's body of work.
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"A computer learned, with artificial intelligence, how to re-create a new Rembrandt right eye," Korsten explains. "And we did that for all facial features, and after that, we assembled those facial features using the geometrical dimensions that Rembrandt used to use in his own work."
The statistical data even determined the type of painting — a portrait, which was the most significant portion of the artist's work, and were most common between 1632 and 1642.
The portrait looks like an actual Rembrandt, right down to the texture of the brushstrokes, which the 3-D printer mimicked.
But Korsten will be the first to say that it won't fool experts.
"I wish it was that good, and it isn't," he says. "I think the expert eye sees that this isn't a real Rembrandt. And it's also got to do with the state of technology that we're in, the amount of time that we had for the process," he says. "Every extra month would have (made) a better painting."
Even a better painting will never be the same as one by the actual artist. But Korsten says the program — which started as a project for ING, the Dutch bank — could be used to help restore lost or damaged art.
"If a piece of a painting is lost, if it's burned and you're left with only 20 percent of a painting, you could, with this technique, maybe re-create the other 80 percent," he says. "So other than the advertising side of this project, I think the outcome is going to have a bigger effect, bigger impact."
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If you’ve ever been lucky enough to walk the many halls of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, you’ll likely have come across the famous “The Night Watch” painting (1642) by Dutch artist Rembrandt. Actually, perhaps “come across” is the wrong term, as most people bee-line to see the canvas—not only impressive for its massive scale but also for its captivating details. Now, thanks to a project by photographer Julius Rooymans and fashion designer Hans Ubbink, there is an entirely new way to experience the famed 17th century artwork.
The project, entitled “Nachtwacht 360,” is currently being exhibited in Amsterdam and consists of a photographic replica of the original Night Watch. Behind the scenes, Rooymans and Ubbink have put a ton of work into the project, finding 25 lookalikes for each of the members of the Night Watch (as well as Rembrandt), styling them to match the attributes and details of the painting and then photographing them to recreate the pose of the original painting.
(The exhibit also consists of a number of portraits, fashion items and props made for the shoot.
As one can imagine, finding people that captured the likeness of each man in the Night Watch painting was itself an arduous task—but perhaps nothing was quite as tricky as recreating each of their outfits in real life. In order to fulfill this tall order, Ubbink collaborated with many people and groups, including Dutch 3D printing company Oceanz, which helped to produce some realistic 3D printed props, including helmets and weapons.
Ubbink and Rooymans sourced many 17th century items for the elaborate photography project from collectors in the Netherlands, though many key pieces in the painting were designed by Rembrandt, meaning that the pair had to find alternative solutions. Ubbink and Rooymans did not limit themselves in their techniques, as they worked with experts at the Rijksmuseum and the National Military Museum to identify and reproduce physical props and garments using both traditional and new techniques.
In the case of some of the more unique parts, the pair enlisted the help of Robin Bandari, who 3D modeled a number of helmets as well as a collar and partisan (a spearhead mounted on a long shaft). These 3D models were then printed by Oceanz.
“I have been amazed at how many details and tailoring hours [go into] the 17th century suits,” Ubbink commented. “Making it again by hand was a tour de force that without the enormous skill and involvement of the various experts with whom we have been allowed to work during this process [would have] never succeeded.”
“As a professional and Dutch 3D print company, we are proud that Oceanz was involved in the Nachtwacht 360 project. How beautiful it is to be able to bring this Dutch masterpiece from the 17th century to life with innovative and modern technology of today? 3D printing makes it possible to produce objects in the most high detail,” said Frank Elbersen, sales engineer at Oceanz. “For example, the helmets, collars and a partisan, which were seen 350 years ago by Rembrandt’s eyes, are exactly counterfeited to be able to show the general public now.
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Spanning over 4 x 5 meters, Nachtwacht 360 is exhibited on the same scale as the original Night Watch painting (including the parts which were cut in 1715). The back of the painting has also been recreated so that the spectator can walk around the work (hence the 360). The piece is also surrounded by the artists’ interpretation of the space in which Rembrandt would have painted the piece, making it feel like an authentic 17th century experience.
You can experience Nachtwacht 360 in person until August 4, 2019 at Oostenburgermiddenstraat 101 in Amsterdam.
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Statistical algorithms and 3D printing made it possible to recreate the style of Rembrandt (Video)Specialists from several companies, including Microsoft, teamed up to create a new painting of Rembrandt, despite his death 347 years ago.
Talented programmers developed statistical algorithms that made it possible to draw an image as if the artist himself had done it. This is described on the official website of the Next Rembrandt project. The statistical algorithm was born in the course of comparing several paintings by Rembrandt. With the help of 3D scanning, studying the relief of paintings, as well as the necessary measurements of the physical parameters of the paintings, the programmers have compiled a huge database.
According to their statistical model, it turned out that the next picture that an artist could paint should take into account the following parameters:
- Portrait
- Caucasian
- Man
- Mustache or beard
- Age 30-40 years old
- Dark clothing
- Headwear
- Looking to the right
Then the experts took into account all the proportions of the face in terms of these parameters. For example, the distance between the ears and eyes, the size of the nose, etc.
Additionally, I had to make relief maps that revealed the whole technology of writing the original painting. This is a process that is usually reflected in the number of strokes and, accordingly, the layers. Everyone took it into account, and this is what they got.
Printed "The Next Rembrandt" on a special 3D printer that applied the image in several uneven layers, like an artist who paints an oil painting.
You can learn more about how the whole exciting process went from the official video.
Information courtesy of IGate based on The Next Rembrandt
/ Specialists from several companies, including Microsoft, teamed up to create a new painting by Rembrandt, despite his death 347 years ago. Talented programmers developed statistical algorithms that made it possible to draw an image as if the artist himself had done it.
This is described on the official website of the Next Rembrandt project.
The statistical algorithm was born in the course of comparing several paintings by Rembrandt. With the help of 3D scanning, studying the relief of paintings, as well as the necessary measurements of the physical parameters of the paintings, the programmers have compiled a huge database.
According to their statistical model, it turned out that the next picture that an artist could paint should take into account the following parameters:
- Portrait
- Caucasian
- Male
- Mustache or beard
- Age 30-40 years old
- Dark clothing
- Headwear
- Looking to the right
Then the experts took into account all the proportions of the face in terms of these parameters. For example, the distance between the ears and eyes, the size of the nose, etc.
Additionally, I had to make relief maps that revealed the whole technology of writing the original painting.
This is a process that is usually reflected in the number of strokes and, accordingly, the layers. Everyone took it into account, and this is what they got.
Printed "The Next Rembrandt" on a special 3D printer that applied the image in several uneven layers, like an artist who paints an oil painting.
You can learn more about how the whole exciting process went from the official video.
Statistical algorithms and 3D printing make it possible to recreate the style of Rembrandt (Video) / timeline / home
Danila Kulbakov 04/06/2016, 20:00
Specialists from several companies, including Microsoft, teamed up to create a new painting by Rembrandt, despite his death 347 years ago.
Talented programmers developed statistical algorithms that made it possible to draw an image as if the artist himself had done it. This is described on the official website of the Next Rembrandt project.
The statistical algorithm was born by comparing several paintings by Rembrandt. With the help of 3D scanning, studying the relief of paintings, as well as the necessary measurements of the physical parameters of the paintings, the programmers have compiled a huge database.
According to their statistical model, it turned out that the next picture that an artist could paint should take into account the following parameters:
- Portrait
- Caucasian
- Man
- Mustache or beard
- Age 30-40 years old
- Dark clothing
- Headwear
- Looking to the right
Then the experts took into account all the proportions of the face in terms of these parameters. For example, the distance between the ears and eyes, the size of the nose, etc.
Additionally, relief maps had to be drawn up, which revealed the whole technology of painting the original painting. This is a process that is usually reflected in the number of strokes and, accordingly, the layers. Everyone took it into account, and this is what they got.
Printed "The Next Rembrandt" on a special 3D printer that applied the image in several uneven layers, like an artist who paints an oil painting.
You can learn more about how the whole exciting process went from the official video.
Information provided by IGate based on The Next Rembrandt
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Computer Rembrandt? Or just a man's tool for fakes?: man_with_dogs — LiveJournal
Microsoft made a fake for Rembrandt by printing a portrait "in oil" with a 3D printer - after element-by-element analysis of 346 portraits, 168+ thousand fragments on them.
People admire the result. In LJ, this was noticed by Devol (3), who had previously studied the case of how a person (Nasobin) failed to make a good fake under Cellini (4). After this, Devol had the idea that computers are already replacing a person even in creativity, and therefore "people are no longer needed." I guess that hasn't happened yet. That in creating a fake under Rembrandt, the computer was not engaged in independent creativity, but was only a sophisticated tool for people's creativity.
In my opinion, something breakthrough with real computer creativity can happen when creating quantum computers (powerful, and not like now - with units of qubits). In addition to the fact that strong cryptography will be broken, there will be a real opportunity not to simulate creativity with fakes, but to simulate the process of creativity itself.
I imagine the creative process like this:
the author seeks, studies and digests references, after which, using the previously acquired creative skills, he embodies with them the ideas that arose in him while studying the references and from other images relevant at that moment.
Those. Initially, the author simply learns the technique of creating works from references, then begins to make his own with the help of this technique and references - and develops his own style. At the same time, the author in the nervous network is crossing different images, with the birth of new ones, from which high-quality ones are selected and brought to mind. These new images are creativity, what remains is only their physical fixation - with a pen on paper, oil on canvas, etc.
A quantum computer will be able to simulate the most important thing - image processing. With their recognition, isolation, crossing, etc. But then again, even he will need to be filled with other people's creativity, references that will set a rather narrow framework for the field of creativity and style. Those. Quantum computers will not completely replace people, but they will be able to replace people in the mass production of creative gadgets - that trash that stocks are filled with: photos, pictures and other graphic design, video footage, audio clips.
Unique works, I believe, will be as rare as they are among men.
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(1) https://nplus1.ru/news/2016/04/06/rembrandt
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Nikolay Vorontsov, 11:23 06 Apr. 2016, Difficulty 2.5
Rembrandt was replaced by a 3D printer
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A group of specialists from Microsoft, the Rembrandt House Museum, Delft University of Technology and the Mauritshuis Royal Gallery presented the portrait "The Next Rembrandt" in Amsterdam on April 5 "("the Next Rebmbrandt"). When creating a portrait, machine learning technologies and 3D printing were used, which made it possible to repeat the style of the artist as much as possible, reports The Guardian.
In order to create a new painting by Rembrandt, the project team first collected data on famous paintings by the Dutch artist. The paintings were scanned in 3D, in order to record the oil relief in addition to the flowers. Using machine learning algorithms (details not disclosed), the developers improved the scanned image.
Based on the fact that Rembrandt painted many portraits, the project participants paid attention to this particular genre. When analyzing data on Rembrandt portraits, various characteristics of the depicted person were taken into account, such as age, gender, and head direction. A total of 346 portraits were processed. As a result, the following features were determined for the new portrait: it should be a white man of 30-40 years old, looking to the right, with facial hair, wearing a hat and black clothes with a white collar.
The developers, using an image recognition algorithm, have identified key details in Rembrandt's paintings, in fact, collecting a collection of eyes, mustaches, collars, facial proportions and other details of the artist's portraits. After the final image was generated, it was printed with special ink in 13 layers, for which a 3D printer was used - thus, the authors managed to convey the relief of a real portrait in oil.
Programmers, historians, art critics and data scientists were involved in the project.
The final picture is based on over 168 thousand fragments of portraits painted by Rembrandt, and the project took 18 months to work on. According to the project participants, the new portrait should not be taken as an attempt to "describe Rembrandt's talent with an algorithm", it is a demonstration that data processing technologies can be used not only for business, but also for creating new works of art.
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(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuygOYZ1Ngo
The Next Rembrandt, 5 Apr. 2016 210+k views
Blurring the boundaries between art and technology, we set out on a challenge to see if the great Master can be brought back to life to create a new painting https://www.nextrembrandt.com
The Next Rembrandt is a collaboration between:
ING / Microsoft / TU Delft / Mauritshuis / Rembrandthuis
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(3) http://users.livejournal.com/_devol_/1079702.html
People are not needed
_devol_, April 8, 2016, 1:14
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In principle, in 50-70 years, if not earlier, most people on our planet will be superfluous (however, this is obvious even now - for example, a miserable consumer economy will never go beyond 1.
