How to algorithmically generate an image dataset

Create your own image dataset for machine learning

Albert Sanchez Lafuente
Towards Data Science
9 min readSep 3, 2021

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collage of images generated with the project’s code
Examples of generated images. (Desert background) by Linnaea Mallette | (Countryside background) by Dawn Hudson | (Forest background) by George Hodan | (Glacial background) by Ed Rogers | (Characters and objects) by craftpix.net

This post is inspired by the NFT art collections that have been released lately, such as Cryptopunks, Sollamas, ON1 Force, or Bored Ape Yacht Club. Among all these projects, there are some in which the images are created by artists while in others the images are algorithmically generated. As we…

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