Deep Dreams of Geology
Once one of my non-geologist friends uttered the words "trippy" while staring at a geologic map of North America that was up in the hallway. I agree. To the uninitiated a geologic map probably looks like a fairly random assortment of off-colors, blobs, blebs, sharp lines, and generally strange shapes. As geologists we are trained to take the seemingly random slapping together of colors and lines, and pull from it a history, a piece of the story of our planet. Some engineers at Google challenged a deep learning network with a series of images which produced some "trippy" results. Wouldn't it be fun to apply their code to some geologic maps? Basically the program takes an image and attempts to match a some known object (birds, dogs, etc.) in it. Do this for a few iterations and the object becomes more pronounced. For instance they fed it a picture of clouds: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1500"] Clouds or ... from Google...