URZA'S DREAM ENGINE

Urza's Dream Engine is a neural network art bot that generates original images in the style of card art from the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game. It was created by game designer and artist Andy Wallace and inspired by the work of @RoboRosewater, another neural network created by Chaz and Reed. After gathering and cropping all existing art from the game (roughly 30,000 cards over the two decades that Magic has been in print), Andy broke the art down into sections based on the type of card it came from and allowed the bot to train for a week before asking it to generate images in the same style.

The images below are a few of pieces Urza's Dream Engine created in late 2017. These images are not collages built out of parts of existing images, but are wholly new images created by the bot in an attempt to mimic the style of the source material. More info about the design of this bot here.

The images are all low resolution. Because of the current state of neural network image generation, producing larger images would take huge amounts of computational time. The smaller size also allows for the abstract images to seemingly take a more concrete form.

Several downloads, including print-and-play cards are available under a Creative Commons license at the bottom of this page.

Urza's Dream Engine was created using this Tensorflow implementation of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks by Taehoon Kim.

THE ROBOROSEWATER ROBODRAFT

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Urza's Dream Engine by Andy Wallace is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.