AI Recreation of Roman Emperor's Faces

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What Did the Roman Emperors Really Look Like? A Novel Blend of AI and Art Conjures Up Eerily Detailed Photographic Portraits

![Augustus. Courtesy of Daniel Voshart.](upload://o8JambgPJCGXaag4v2OWl7agUx4.jpeg)

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8653943/Artist-uses-AI-tech-reveal-Roman-emperors-looked-2-000-years-ago.html

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Half of them look like Khabib’s friends.

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Soooooo......no shlong molds?

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Well I’m sure the people who made this were all men. Notice the complete lack of female inclusion.

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Hostilian looking like he had ho's in different area codes

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That group picture looks like a fighting game progression tree... I want to play it.

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Hostilian looking like he had ho's in different area codes

Voluianus looks like he should have had Facebook up and running before he died.

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Why do the get less Nordic looking as time passes?

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Why do the get less Nordic looking as time passes?

Lol in another thread someone on here said I was promoting Nazi theories when I mentioned how diversity led to Rome's social collapse.

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![Prepare your Florianus | Prepare Your Anus | Know Your Meme](upload://2hq03xzvMvdozI2VCmaGixgYVhN.jpeg)

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lol nero’s shit eating grin

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![Daniel's project, using machine learning software, has created photorealist versions of the 54 Roman Emperors who served in The Principate, starting with Augustus (pictured) in 27 BC. Clockwise from top left: The Prima Porta, Pergamum Museum, the British Museum, Labicana](upload://AjBgTyy2BV5MnXTJMunbxqRFEuZ.jpeg)![When he came to pick a subject, he chose to research the busts of the Roman Emperors, despite not being particularly interested in ancient history. Pictured right: Vespasian digitally remade, and clockwise from top left: At the Louvre, Museum of Archeology, National Archeological Museum in Naples, Capitoline Museum](upload://yPR5r2QTCeLgm3KI8SyzTIEVBMg.jpeg)

![This side-by-side show Daniel's version of the third emperor Caligula, who ruled from 37AD until his assassination in 41 AD, against a bust in the Met Gallery](upload://tUROemfgAajtmGqS0BJAIwi16R0.jpeg)

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![His main tool was a software programme called ArtBreeder, which uses a type of machine learning method called generative adversarial network (GAN) to manipulate images and add other elements into them. Pictured: Nero](upload://eDnvTsJkGT3O3X2TvZ7FwRB3v6p.jpeg)![Though more interested in design work for VR for use in architecture and the film industry, the coronavirus pandemic brought Daniel's work to stop and left him with time to explore his hobby of colourising statues. Pictured: Claudius, clockwise from top left: National Archeological Museum in Naples, The Vatican, National Archeological Museum in Spain, Museum Chiaramonti](upload://udYiR95mP6Yw9wn9xtH8uVc7HkX.jpeg)![Daniel, from Toronto, Canada, says that his project of painstakingly colourising and shaping their rulers' faces was 'a quarantine project that got a bit out of hand'. Right: Daniel's Vitellius, clockwise from top left: At the Louvre, painting by Peter Paul Rubensm, Rubens House in Antwerp, New Carlsberg Gylototek](upload://d765bA1m1Wg1xBuZtRCNMVH2MKM.jpeg)

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![Daniel admitted to introducing his own biases when creating the interpretations of the Emperors. Pictured: Galba, top left and centre: Capitoline Museum in Rome, bottom left: Museum of Antiquities in Stockholm](upload://gCdyDPpa7o2sgtaPVj9OJdF1xcq.jpeg)

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![Pictured: Domitian. Clockwise from top left: At The Vatican, Altes Museum in Berlin, The Louvre, and the Archeological Museum in Venice](upload://jqpA6D8cqX4BkYuNT4zDsjMDxxD.jpeg)

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Didius Julie's anus

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Some of them look like hard men, but most looks like in breads.

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![Prepare your Florianus | Prepare Your Anus | Know Your Meme](upload://2hq03xzvMvdozI2VCmaGixgYVhN.jpeg)

Yeah... Florianus made me jump back. Looks like a peeping tom. Nero looks like he would sleep with a Waifu today.

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Caligula is Joffrey.

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In!