Matchbox Twelvy

Uses a DCGAN to make fake matchbox car designs that look like they were painted quickly by a twelve year old

Examples

Example outputs are in https://github.com/binarymax/matchbox-twelvy/tree/master/twelvys

Prerequisites

A *nix machine with:

• A CUDA capable NVidia card (metrics below used a GTX 1080Ti)
• CUDA toolkit
• bash
• python3
• scrapy
• pytorch
• torchvision

Steps

1. Get the data:

cd acquisition
scrapy crawl acquisition

2. Reshape the images as 128x128

cd shape
.'/resize.sh'

3. Train the model (I trained for 72 hours nonstop on a GeForce GTX 1080 to get the results in the demo)

cd dcgan
.'/train-jpg-images.sh'

Credits

All images credit https://matchbox.fandom.com/ (CC-BA-SA)