Neural nets meet McLaren Senna

Another short story about cars, art and fancy algorithms.

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A short time ago, the new McLaren Senna featured at the Drivetribe homepage. A really nice write-up about it can be found here.

At first glance, McLaren's latest creation looks seriously ugly:

The rear wing looks like a humongous ironing board and the overall result is a bit underwhelming. However, I couldn't really hate it. Those aggressive aero lines scream "performance". It seems like this is what it takes to deliver the 800kg worth of downforce needed to go around corners at immense speed and the nerds at McLaren went for it.

The first attempt involved a plain close-up image of pure flames.

Second attempt included Picasso's Guernica.

That looks quite weird.

Then it was Jackson Pollock's Convergence (most probably).

Though this one is not a particularly pretty one, Pollock's abstract expressionism looks promising.

Another attempt with Pollock. Needs more work tuning hyperparameters to make this work, but I got bored.

Last one, using Udnie and tensorfire.

That's all for today, I hope you enjoyed it!

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