Prisma: Intelligent Photo Effects Apps Taps into Deep Learning for an Edgy Art Connection

by **bdahm** Mon Aug 15, 2016 10:47 pm

Sometimes an app is so just right for its moment in history that it hits everyone between the eyes and lingers in the limelight. That’s what is happening with Prisma (free, iTunes Store link), a free photo/art app for iPhone that touts special effects image “filters” that render the painterly styles of famous artists like Van Gogh, Picasso, Lichtenstein, Mondrian, Kandinsky, and others. The buzz around Prisma and the fascination it has generated persists because the app is super simple to use and yields an endless variety of genuinely unique results. It’s all on account of Prisma’s secret sauce: cloud-based neural network and deep learning algorithms that reinterpret your pedestrian little snapshot through a signature artist’s eye. Each style is applied differently in response to the unique patterns in the picture.

http://tinyurl.com/zzlw6ue

Here is the original and a Prisma altered photo I took on a recent trip to Switzerland.

https://goo.gl/photos/3MBoCvsZcwp3b2DN9

https://goo.gl/photos/CNggaR7Gkh6WSTS67

-Bill