On 23 August, Surya Narreddi posted a beautiful video of watercolours painted by a language model. The model writes JavaScript through p5.brush, a library that "adds natural drawing tools to p5.js". The video went viral fast, over 1.5M views at the time of writing.
The video came with a blog post explaining the training behind an earlier and narrower stage of the project, close-up flowers rather than the full compositions in the video, sadly without open artifacts yet. His site says a full technical report is coming, so ensure you follow him. The original idea is his, coming from the art and design side, where his skills are way beyond mine. My attempt is on the engineering side, reproducing the recipe in the open with every piece published.
