Wave function collapse

2021, 07 April

Learn to procedurally generate images based on a sample image using the wave function collapse algorithm during the artificial intelligence master’s course Computer Graphics & Computer Vision by Dr. Umut Güçlü at Radboud University. Lynn, Michelle and myself are present as teaching assistants.

The synthesis algorithm wave function collapse is loosely inspired on the concept from quantum mechanics; it uses a set of probabilities to describe all the possible states of a texture in superposition, which are then collapsed one-by-one to generate the resulting output pattern.

The gifs show the process of synthesis by gradually collapsing the states in the output images. Starting in superposition, each state collapse brings the image closer to a fully-collapsed pattern that looks locally similar to the input sample image (shown as the smaller image on the left).

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