{"id":9302,"date":"2018-01-05T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portraitonpastel.com\/?p=9302"},"modified":"2018-01-05T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:37:05","slug":"espanol-when-art-meets-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portraitonpastel.com\/en\/espanol-when-art-meets-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"When Art and portraiture meets Technology. How painting and technology can match."},"content":{"rendered":"

When Art and portraiture meet Technology, strange things happen! \u00a0How portrait painting and technology can match?<\/p>\n

I received a few months ago, \u00a0an intriguing letter from an Associate Professor at the CTU in Prague. The CTU is the Czech Technical University in Prague. One of the largest universities in the Czech Republic, and one of the oldest institutes of technology in Central Europe. It said something like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cDear Graciela,
\nI’m an Associate Professor at CTU in Prague. With my students, we are working on a method for artistic style transfer.<\/p>\n

\"CTU,<\/a>

CTU, Czech Technical University Praga<\/p><\/div>\n

We found your really beautiful portrait.which is a very nice example of a painting that perfectly suits our research needs. To be able to show your artwork in a research paper and accompany videos describing our method, I would like to ask you for your permission kindly.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

CTU, Czech Technical University Praga<\/p><\/div>\n

I have always thought that It is quite interesting when Art and portraiture meet Technology. The results that they can produce together, and more in our days, maybe at least surprising\u2026or amazing.<\/p>\n

I think that now is the time to share with you this interesting Project, lead by Doctor Ing. Daniel Sykora, Ph.D. from the Czech Technical University, (Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction Faculty of Electrical Engineering), and recently awarded with the \u201cNeuron Award for Promising Young Scientists\u201d, 2017. I was really impressed by the results… Maybe the most interesting is to watch this technology applied and working!! It is incredible to watch how your painting, from a\u00a0bidimensional\u00a0and rigid piece, transforms into something alive. How it\u00a0moves, gesticulate and articulate keeping all the characteristics you painted. I encourage you to take a look at this amazing video in this link. An example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations<\/a>.<\/p>\n