---
title: "Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes"
description: "NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes."
date: "2019-06-14"
modified: "2019-06-14"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/nvidia-ai-scribbles-realistic-landscapes"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
tags:
  - "art"
  - "gaugan"
  - "NVIDIA"
  - "the digest"
---

# Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes

![NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/nvidia-ai-scribbles-realistic-landscapes.png>)
*\<em\>Image: NVIDIA\</em\>*

## Paint By Numbers

With a little help from AI, you can now create a Bob Ross-style landscape in seconds.

In March, researchers from NVIDIA [unveiled GauGAN](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07291>), a system that uses AI to transform images scribbled onto a Microsoft Paint-like canvas into photorealistic landscapes — just choose a label such as "water," "tree," or "mountain" the same way you'd normally choose a color, and the AI takes care of the rest.

At the time, they described GauGAN as a "[smart paintbrush](<https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/>)" — and now, they've released an [online beta demo](<http://52.12.58.174/>) so you can try it out for yourself.

https://youtu.be/uNv7XBngmLY

## Art Expert

The level of detail included in [NVIDIA's](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/algorithm-deepfake-animal-photos>) system is remarkable.

Draw a vertical line with a circle at the top using the "tree" label, for example, and the AI knows to make the bottom part the trunk and the top part the leaves. Add snow to the ground, and the foliage disappears, leaving behind just the barren tree branches.

Place a pond beneath the tree, and you'll see its reflection appear in the water.

"It’s like a coloring book picture that describes where a tree is, where the sun is, where the sky is," Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA's VP of applied deep learning research, explained in a [blog post](<https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/>) in March. "And then the neural network is able to fill in all of the detail and texture, and the reflections, shadows and colors, based on what it has learned about real images."

**READ MORE:** [Stroke of Genius: GauGAN Turns Doodles into Stunning, Photorealistic Landscapes](<https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealistic-landscapes-nvidia-research/>) \[NVIDIA\]

**More on NVIDIA:** *[This AI Shows What You’d Look Like as a Puppy ](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/algorithm-deepfake-animal-photos>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)