{"id":124267,"date":"2021-06-25T17:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/an-ai-algorithm-just-completed-a-famous-rembrandt-painting"},"modified":"2021-06-25T17:23:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:23:22","slug":"an-ai-algorithm-just-completed-a-famous-rembrandt-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/an-ai-algorithm-just-completed-a-famous-rembrandt-painting","title":{"rendered":"An AI algorithm just completed a famous Rembrandt painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-ai-algorithm-just-completed-a-famous-rembrandt-painting2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they say computers can\u2019t create art.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In 1642, famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn completed a large painting called <em>Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq<\/em> \u2014 today, the painting is commonly referred to as <em>The Night Watch.<\/em> It was the height of the Dutch Golden Age, and <em>The Night Watch<\/em> brilliantly showcased that.<\/p>\n<p>The painting measured 363 cm \u00d7 437 cm (11.91 ft \u00d7 14.34 ft) \u2014 so big that the characters in it were almost life-sized, but that\u2019s only the start of what makes it so special. Rembrandt made dramatic use of light and shadow and also created the perception of motion in what would normally be a stationary military group portrait. Unfortunately, though, the painting was trimmed in 1715 to fit between two doors at Amsterdam City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>For over 300 years, the painting has been missing 60cm (2ft) from the left, 22cm from the top, 12cm from the bottom and 7cm from the right. Now, computer software has restored the missing parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they say computers can\u2019t create art. In 1642, famous Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn completed a large painting called Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq \u2014 today, the painting is commonly referred to as The Night Watch. It was the height of the Dutch Golden Age, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}