Cubism filters

Now any idiot can paint like Picasso - researchers at the University of Bath have developed a filter that converts images into a cubist representation. You need a series of photos (taken from different angles):

The researchers fed the computer a series of pictures where they had identified the aesthetically important elements, such as a nose, eye or mouth. Gradually the computer learned how to recognise these important elements and overlook the more obvious contrasts between edges or borders, which is the limit of what computers can do at the moment.

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