- Help explore stylegan's latent space using variational autoencoders as a sort of filter and,
- Produce animations interpolating through stylegan's latent space using VAE "palettes" as a way to more graphically interface with the complicated space
The code provided will train a VAE to represent portions of SG's 512-D latent space in 2-D. This representation will be plotted on a regular x/y axis for you to explore, and provides the optional injection of 'color' to your palette to explore less likely sections of the space. Once happy with a palette, get to painting! Draw a line through the space to interp from one image to another, draw a curve to pass through a third section, or draw a circle to create an interp that starts in one location and circles away and around back to the beginning to create loops. Hope you have fun painting!
Tutorial Video: https://youtu.be/pkYHMPoZrkg