Matchbox Twelvy
Uses a DCGAN to make fake matchbox car designs that look like they were painted quickly by a twelve year old
Examples
Example outputs are in https://github.com/binarymax/matchbox-twelvy/tree/master/twelvys
Prerequisites
A *nix machine with:
- A CUDA capable NVidia card (metrics below used a GTX 1080Ti)
- CUDA toolkit
- bash
- python3
- scrapy
- pytorch
- torchvision
Steps
- Get the data:
cd acquisition
scrapy crawl acquisition- Reshape the images as 128x128
cd shape
.'/resize.sh'- Train the model (I trained for 72 hours nonstop on a GeForce GTX 1080 to get the results in the demo)
cd dcgan
.'/train-jpg-images.sh'Credits
All images credit https://matchbox.fandom.com/ (CC-BA-SA)