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Turn Cat Doodles Into Horrific Cat Photographs

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pix2pix is a program that lets you draw something in a box and have a computer turn it into a photo, using...well, magic. There is now a website version of it, and it’s both the most impressive and horrifying thing I’ve seen today.

Think Google’s Deepdream, only furrier.

Just draw a doodle on one side, press a button and you get a “photo” of the sketch on the other, stitched together as a composite made from actual images of the thing you’re drawing.

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It doesn’t work for everything, just items that it has a collection of images for, but those items include shoes, bags and, most importantly, cats.

Here is a portrait of my cat, Koko. The likeness is...not bad.

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Here is a drawing of a cute fat cat wearing a bowtie.

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This is a picture of Nathan’s cat. Nathan doesn’t have a cat.

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As you can see, results may vary. Sometimes you get a cat. Sometimes you get a Hell Owl.

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Sometimes you get a Pokemon:

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Sometimes a very good sketch is undone:

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And sometimes you get the harbinger of the end of man.

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Moving on from cats, below is my shoe. The colour is wrong, but this AI shoe is pretty swish in its own right.

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And here are some random buildings that, again, it does a pretty good job of “building”.

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If you want to try this out, you can doodle your dreams/nightmares here.