Bob Ross Processed by a Neural Network Is the Most Soothing Way to Melt Your Brain

By now we ’ve construe everything fromFear and odium in Las VegastoDonald Trumptopopular memesprocessed by neural networks likeGoogle ’s Deep Dream . They ’re like bizarre drug slip , but without the drug . But it was only recently thatAlexander Rebenwas curious enough to see what a neural mesh would make of the human equivalent of Ambien : painter Bob Ross .

effigy processing programme likeDeep Dreamrely on neural networks and hokey intelligence to find and enhance patterns and details in images , often leading to bizarrely over - process results . But the algorithms can also be tweaked so that the nervous networks are working to equal parts of an image to other mental image , like a terrifying variation of kid trying to recognize objects in random swarm shapes . It ’s those results that will haunt your dream , when paintings of beautiful landscapes become hum canvases of random creature .

This is all to say : This video is absolutely horrifying , but you should look on it anyway .