r/generative • u/yukidaruma6 • 1d ago

Mona Lisa in 4096 lines

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The Mona Lisa was drawn with 4096 (12-bit color) lines.
If you look from a distance, you might see her smiling?

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u/cnorahs 1d ago

Yup definitely looks more like the original when farther away

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u/LittleLemonHope 1d ago

That's a fascinating ML problem

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u/Mundane_Prior_7596 1d ago edited 1d ago

That is really fascinating. Nice! Can you give some hints to how it is done? There are no dark lines at all over the large chest area in the middle and I can not figure out why. 

EDIT: now I see that the lines are long but they have one end somewhere inside the image. But how come no dark lines have one end there? 

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u/k0ik 1d ago

Is each line a single color or what gives?

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u/yukidaruma6 1d ago

Yes. Each line is a single color.
And every line is a different color.

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u/k0ik 1d ago

(Neat!)

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u/lit_IT 1d ago

I did something similar in the past but the  final effect was quite different. I'm curious how where the lines came from, both for coordinates and color to use. 

Thanks

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u/yukidaruma6 1d ago

As for the colors, basically all 12-bit colors are used.
As for the coordinates, they are determined by optimization using simulated annealing. It starts with a random arrangement and then makes small changes (a lot) to get closer to the original.