This is a mostly failed experiment that I've been carrying during a train ride, my goal was to teach a neural network to draw strokes in an appropriate way.
This might be somehow related to the idea of stroke based rendering.
I tried to make diagrams to explain what I was aiming at.
During the training phase:
During the generation phase:
As usual I implemented this in possibly one of the least suited environment for this task, java/processing. Source code here.
It doesn't work as expected but can still generate some funny, often colorful, pictures.
Side by side comparison...
I've only spent a couple hours on this so I'll possibly try to rework it later at some point.
