Cambourne is the largest town within the South Cambridgeshire district, comprising the villages of Lower, Great, Upper and West Cambourne, with an approximate population of 12,200 people and 4,350 homes. The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

Having decided on a career as an illustrator, he took A Level art and then a BA (Honours) Degree in Scientific Illustration. Then he was told that he ought to be drawing from life so he joined the Peacock Club at Paignton Zoo. It is also very exciting to see and think about all of the creative, as well as practical, applications of this technology.I used the “circular” interpolation which gives a nice “walk” through a few diverse points in the latent space and you see different birds morph into one another. The “adversarial” part of the name refers to the fact that a StyleGAN actually comprises two Neural Networks which work against each other. These have to be passed and then the final illustrations are produced, more or less as in the draft. AI generated illustrations of birds created with illustrations from the BHL Flickr using machine learning with a StyleGAN.

Why not create a gallery wall or feature wall using our collection of Bird Posters, amazing intricate illustrations by John James Audubon, naturalist and painter. Almost as a reaction to painting large clear portraits of birds with minimal background for book plates, Alan’s paintings are often of scenes with the focal point bird very small in the painting. Here, he publishes videos of his Machine Learning courses which he runs for people who want to use ML for creative purposes. the printing is colorful and clear and i have thoroughly enjoyed looking through it, both carefully and only perusing. Drawing exercise - freehand, quick, loose, no erasing - some turn out fine but others not so much, but that's OK.many of the pages are suitable for framing, if, like me, you enjoy looking at bird paintings of a kind of naive nature. M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. Cambourne is a vibrant community and it is our intention to enable more residents to play an active role in the community, through participation in community events and activities, volunteering, attendance at Town Council meetings, ideas for community development, or simply taking advantage of our excellent community and sports facilities within the villages.

Coracias Garrulus Lin (European Roller) by Magnus Von Wright (1836), an isolated portrait of an European roller.Some of the illustrations in these books were inaccurate but then came Lars Jonsson’s Birds of Europe with North Africa and the Middle East and the 2nd edition of the Collins Bird Guide with illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom. A hack day involves spending a day working on projects which generally revolve around a particular theme and which ideally we can do in one day.

Originally painted in gouache and pen, this hand drawn illustration has been printed on lightly textured 300gsm watercolour paper, and signed in the bottom corner with permanent ink.These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. John Gould’s illustrations of Darwin’s specimens from his voyage on The Beagle brought the birds to life but his illustrations in The Birds of Great Britain 1862, which were based on old specimens, were less good. The fact that with StyleGAN2-ADA you can use such a limited dataset and need so little time, and that you can use a free service like Google Colab to do the training and it still produces results like this is incredibly impressive and opens the word of Machine Learning and StyleGANs to many more people than previously.