Nice art works and slick experience. Some suggestions<p>1. While waiting for the art to be generated, get the user to do a hot-or-not between some existing art to get a better sense of what they like and then generate them something<p>2. Have a little more feedback on how much longer they'll need to wait while generating<p>3. Once generated, show the artwork framed and hanging somewhere not just the rendering<p>4. When a user kicks off a job, kick off a bunch in parallel using some other styles in case the style they pick really doesn't work well.
NightCafe Creator has been my side project for about 6 months. It's a PWA built with TypeScript, React, Next.js and Firebase; and the style transfer jobs run on Algorithmia.<p>There are plenty of neural style transfer apps online. Some of the features that set mine apart are:<p>- Multiple style images with relative weights<p>- Style masks - clip a style to a certain region of the content image<p>- Free image search built in (via Pexels)<p>- No signup required to create (uses Firebase's anonymous users)<p>There are still a lot of improvements to make - I want to improve and speed up the back end algorithm, add public user accounts and the ability to 'like' creations, along with a never-ending list of smaller things like pagination - which I've avoided adding thus far.<p>This is probably the most effort I've ever put into a side project. Would love to hear your thoughts and am happy to answer any questions.
I’ve been playing with this for several weeks now and it’s a lot of fun. I was always really intrigued by style transfer algorithms and thus was a great low-barrier way to play around with them.
Is there a way to rotate the original image after uploading? The image I tried originally uploaded sideways so it made doing the mask more difficult. I edited the photo on my phone to rotate it and resubmit it. (my phone didn't show me the photo needed to be adjusted until after I uploaded it)
Love the giraffe image. Although I wonder if your algorithm handles faces well.<p>There is a huge demand in Instagram for auto touchups. Like improved lighting, smoother skin, vibrant colors, convert to anime etc. Make amateur photos look like they’re taken by pros.
Very cool! I remember working on an evolutionary algorithm at one point to generate CSS versions of images using random fonts, positions and transforms. The results you've got here are very impressive.