High-Level Project Summary
Our team built a website that introduces the viewers to the NASA partner program of HiRISE. Providing basic information about the program and its achievements, the viewers should be able to know much more about HiRISE. We decided to use AI to generate artworks based on the pictures taken by HiRISE.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project is a website that provides an introduction to the partner program HiRISE. Using short paragraphs, we have displayed some basic information of what HiRISE is and what it might bring to NASA as well as other space organizations. By displaying some actual HiRISE photos, we will not only keep the viewers interested, but also give examples of what HiRISE actually produces. We then chose two of the most prominent geological features on the Martian surface to investigate more in depth: craters and dunes. The HiRISE captures thousands of them, so we decided on some that stood out and explained the phenomena as to why they are formed. As the challenge is about integrating art, we decided to use AI to generate artworks related to HiRISE. First is Stable Diffusion, a text to image AI model published by StabilityAI. Inserting a prompt will command the AI to generate an image. We created some scenarios that have not been photographed before. Even our team photo was created by this AI model. Next was StyleGAN, a model that analyzes sample images to create its own. We inputted hundreds of actual HiRISE images, and let the AI create completely new photos of Mars, which actually look identical to the real ones. The video compilation of those images were uploaded. Lastly, we let our imagination roam freely and used Style Transfer to transform HiRISE images to different styles.
Our goal was to educate viewers about the HiRISE program, while visually showing the endless possibilities that HiRISE brings to the table.
Space Agency Data
We use pictures from NASA and University of Arizona program HiRISE.
Hackathon Journey
It went smoothly in the beginning, as we had clear goals. However, designing the site and generating the images took a lot of time. We learned a lot during this process, especially about the various geological features of Mars and its surface. There were some setbacks: the code to design the site contained some errors that we did not understand, but we solved it by researching solutions on the internet.
References
Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Information: Wikipedia, Google
Image of cyberpunk style: Jinhwa Jang
Background Image of the Website: Publicdomainpictures.net
Tags
#art #AI #HiRISE