Our next evolution...

Inspired by early AI cryptoArt pioneers Pindar Van Arman, David Young, Artonymousartifakt, and Bard Ionson, we trained a GAN model to imagine a new collection of Hopeful Beasts using our artwork as inputs.  The creations are truly fascinating. 

After each cycle, the lines and patterns of color more closely mimicked the style of our training set. After 100 generations, the images approached our ideal but have a style all their own. A few sample inputs and outputs are included below. 

As they emerged from the latent space, in his typical fashion, my now 7 year-old son, Pedro picked his favorites and named the never before seen creatures.  

We're still learning about smart contracts and decentralized storage, but hope to release these into the wild on Ethereum soon!

Follow the process on Twitter:  @kinder_nft_art