Orchid

Technical Commentary

Orchid is an online exhibited artwork using a camera-attached RaspberryPi to send live video feed of an orchid to a GPU Linux server to be then converted via a pretrained CycleGAN implementation. The GAN network was trained using 50 hand drawn ink wash paintings of orchids by myself. The RPi client used the OpenCV and imageZMQ Python libraries to stream the video frames to the server. The server ran a PyTorch implementation of CycleGAN to receive/process/send the frames to browsers connected to the online exhibition app.