The final week is upon us. I have the 50/50 model up and running, and I plan to finish the full "ouroboros" style generator this coming week, to unveil at the exhibition. Here's some examples of various epochs of training, keeping in mind this order of "sketch/original generated image/newly regenerated image."
A cool effect you'll notice is the smoothing out of certain visual artifacts: I actually curated these images, so I had to pull certain pieces to use for the retraining set--some images were unintelligible, and I could not have those taint the retraining. However, some of these were deemed acceptable by me, despite a few artifacts, and as you can see here, these get mellowed out as it retrains, which is really cool.
I like having this kind of control over my sense of "selective breeding." It shows that, while I want to manufacture a somewhat independent "imagination," I, as the creator, am still needed. I want AI and machine learning to still be used as a tool too.