fake kanji

akimon · Post by **akimon** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 1:40 am

I trained an algorithm to dream up fake chinese characters by training it on a stroke-order database of chinese characters.

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lmog · Post by **lmog** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:08 am

Cool! I don't know kanji but some of the stroke "subcharacters" appear to be actual subcharacters of kanji characters Is that right? Or are there novel subcharacters as well? What is the precise formulation of the program?

svisstack · Post by **svisstack** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 2:11 am

i think its cool

Nonius · Post by **Nonius** » Fri Dec 25, 2015 12:43 pm

some of the subcharacters definitely look real. Like *big* and *man* and other stuff.

akimon · Post by **akimon** » Mon Dec 28, 2015 8:04 pm

Thanks. I wrote an article on the methodology used.

http://blog.otoro.net/2015/12/28/recurrent-net-dreams-up-fake-chinese-characters-in-vector-format-with-tensorflow/

lmog · Post by **lmog** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:01 am

What a fantastic write up!

Reading through it now, very enjoyable so far.