More bark anyone?

[Shelagh Moore]

This came up through my social media... perhaps of interest to anyone wanting to make a mandolin with more "bark"!

[John Kelly]

Could be used to build one of the new K series mandolins which I've heard will replace current A and F models, Richard. This one would make a great K9, I'd say!

[Bertram Henze]

Looks like nature's answer to the Deep Dream Generator.

[Timbofood]

More bark...

[Johnny60]

Might make an absolutely fantastic instrument, but then again...

It might turn out to be a dog!

[Drew Streip]

Dogwood?

Bet it'll sound furrocious.

[NursingDaBlues]

Tone might be a little ruff for my taste.

[SGraham]

I find it necessary to quote Stephen Maturin at this point: "He who would pun would pick a pocket."

[Tobin]

I wood knot think it would make very good tone wood.

[Beanzy]

Could be used for lab testing a new design.

[FLATROCK HILL]

I find it necessary to quote Stephen Maturin at this point: "He who would pun would pick a pocket."

I don't find any of these punsters to be criminal. I guess I can now consider them to be "imMaturin".

[Bill Snyder]

From the correct angle it sure makes me think of the critter in my avatar.

[Torpedotom]

What kind of tail piece would you use?

[T.D.Nydn]

I'll guess I'll say it.. make it for t h e"Dawg"...

[Bertram Henze]

That dog may be bigger than we bargain for

[bratsche]

Looks like nature's answer to the Deep Dream Generator.

Looks like someone already got to it....



bratsche

[Timbofood]

Never mind.....

[Tobin]

bratsche, that photo is the stuff of nightmares. And acid trips.

[Bertram Henze]

that photo is the stuff of nightmares.

How about a roadkill pizza?



Before you're off your lunch, a little bit of background might be in order: this is an artificial neural network with many layers (hence "deep") which has been trained to recognize furry animals and birds in any picture (e.g. any three dark dots become two eyes and a nose). The software then paints the recognized patterns from the training set back onto the original picture, duly distorted to match the reference points, to let us see what it saw. And it reproduces a common human trait: it sees what it wants to see.

Had the network been trained to recognize, say, F-style mandolins, that pizza would now be a luthier's nightmare.

[jasona]

Looks like someone already got to it....



bratsche

That's amazing

[Timbofood]

In the words if the great "Sheridan Whiteside"
" I MAY vomit"