“What kind of fruit will grow on the left wreckage after human extinction?”

 
IMG_3522.jpg

FUTURE FRUIT PREDICTOR

A Generative Art Based on Sounds

Yi Xie

 

About

This is a predictor that converts sound information to environmental factors, and based on the different environment, a brand-new fruit will be generated. This project is mostly based on Wekinator, with the training of several real recordings of natural sounds, it is able to “imagine” the environment of the future fruit from any sound input.

 
Input - Sound

Input - Sound

Software - Wekinator

Software - Wekinator

Output - New Fruit

Output - New Fruit

A fruit predictor that based on the sound.

 

thoughts

 
  • Can human create a new species of fruit?

  • What will the fruits be like in the future?

  • What kind of fruit will grow on the left wreckage after human extinction?

While this program predicting fruit in the future, it also provokes people’s reflection on the relationship between human and nature, nature and other creation.

Cultural AI Tool

Cultural AI Tool

 
 

Database

 

Sound

They are environmental ambiences that are used to train the AI to recognize and distinguish sounds of different things.

Fruit

Images and info. Images are used to output, and info helps the AI to generate fruit according to the environment they need.

 

Earlier Versions

 
Testing the parameters with a square.

Testing the parameters with a square.

The problem of the output being too jumpy was fixed by having arrays for the input data and taking the average of the them.

The problem of the output being too jumpy was fixed by having arrays for the input data and taking the average of the them.