Cognitive Portrait Challenge

Russian Version

This repository has been created to explore the different creative techniques inspired by Cognitive Portrait. Main idea is to use Face API to extract Facial Landmarks from photographs of people, and then lay out photographs in a certain way to create expressive artworks.

This repository is a collection of different Cognitive Portrait techniques, and I challenge you to create your own! What you can do:

1. Just create your own cognitive portrait using one of the available techniques. No coding experience required.
2. Propose a new cognitive portrait technique by providing a Python code.

How to do it:

1. Fork and clone this repository help
2. To run the notebooks in this repository, you can either:
   • Use GitHub Codespaces
   • Clone the repo in Binder by clicking here
   • Run Jupyter locally from the cloned directory (you would need some local Python environment to do that)
3. Explore CognitivePortrait.ipynb to understand how the whole thing works in general, try to run the code yourself.
   • During the process you would also need to get Face API key - get the trial one here
   • Use CognitivePortrait-mPyPl.ipynb if you want to explore the code that uses mPyPl library
4. If you want to use one of the existing techniques:
   • Put your own pictures into images folder (you can create a subdirectory there if you want). If you are using Azure Notebooks - upload them
   • Open the .ipynb Notebook corresponding to the technique you want
   • Run through the cells in the notebook to create the artwork
   • Save the artwork into results folder
   • If you are using Azure Notebooks -- download the result and place it into results folder in this repository
   • If you want, you can also include the image files used to create the artwork into images folder, but make sure they are not too "heavy" ), so that your code is included into the main repository at http://github.com/CloudAdvocacy/CognitivePortrait
5. If you want to create an original cognitive portrait technique:
   • Start with CognitivePortrait-Start.ipynb
   • Write your own code to create an artwork
   • You can use existing images in images folder, or upload your own
   • Save the result in results folder. If you are using Azure Notebooks -- download it to local folder at the end.
6. Edit README.md to add your picture to the gallery
7. Perform a [pull request](https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request

Have fun creating art!

Techniques Created by Community

Artwork	Created by	Code	Description
	@shwars	CognitivePortrait.ipynb	A number of photographs are aligned by their eyes and blended together to create an "average" photograph of a person
	@shwars	CognitivePortrait-2face.ipynb	Photographs are grouped into two sets of different ages, and blended side-by-side
	@shwars	CognitivePortrait-Circle.ipynb	Aligning faces to that eyes lie on a circle, creating visual whirlpool
	[@semenovdv][semenovdv]	CognitivePortrait-ThirdEye.ipynb	Aligning the pupils into a triangle, thereby making a third eye
	@Stifeev	CognitivePortrait-ThirdEye.ipynb	Выравнивание с использование меток, отражения, акварельный фильтр
	@noxpardus	CognitivePortrait-Dragon.ipynb	Placement of pupils at the vertices of the dragon fractal
	@linuxxxoid	CognitivePortrait-X-men.ipynb	Images are connected by one mouth into one colorful picture, and blended
	@linuxxxoid	CognitivePortrait-X-men.ipynb	Aligning the face in the center and attaching two symmetrical heads to the bottom to make a x-man.
	[@Bronnikoff][https://github.com/Bronnikoff]	CognitivePortrait-Eater.ipynb	Mouth instead eyes made using affine transformes of standpoints
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Artwork Gallery

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