Gallery: Adobe’s Project Felix Uses AI to Help You Craft Hyper-Realistic 3-D Renderings

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    Cherry Blast juice, and this image, aren't real.
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    The image was made in Project Felix, Adobe's new app for easy 3-D rendering.
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    Machine learning algorithms power Felix, and let designers quickly turn stock images into photorealistic scenes. With the Cherry Blast ad, Felix automatically laid a grid over the beach landscape. When Corazza added a plastic bottle to the exposed patch of boardwalk, Felix knew exactly where a bottle that size should sit.
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    The algorithms driving Felix were trained, by scientists in the Creative Technologies Lab at Adobe Research, to understand spatial relationships between objects, and to replicate how light works.
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    “We are building something that people can use without specific 3-D knowledge,” says Stefano Corazza, a computer scientist at Adobe. “You don’t need to know about polygons.”
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    Adobe is making a big push to use AI to remove the tedium of design by automating parts of it. This image shows off another forthcoming tool, called Time of Day Hallucination.
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    It lets photographers recast the direction of the sun in an image, convincingly so.
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