News
Talks, exhibitions, and updates from the initiative.
Talk: Traveling Salesman Problem — From Mathematics to Art
Dengyuhan Dai presented at the UCLA PIC Spotlight Seminar, showing how the Travelling Salesman Problem can be used to convert images into single-line drawings through density-based sampling and LKH-3 optimization.
Talk: Visualizing Music with Neural Networks
Shanmei Wanyan presented at the UCLA PIC Spotlight Seminar, demonstrating how Compositional Pattern-Producing Networks (CPPNs) can generate music-conditioned animated artwork.
Cellular Impressions
An exhibition of portrait artworks created using neural style transfer and Voronoi geometry, by Tucker Nielson, Weimo Zhu, Jiayin Lu, Ying Jiang, Michael Andrews, and Chenfanfu Jiang.