{"collection":"art","slug":"1738786576559-ocean-dreams","cid":"bafkreie2m7xuhbs3npmkec455525kqeofhgsupkpr3ur6fxdwc6dfyamjm","title":"Ocean Dreams","excerpt":"Early GAN art from coastal images, creating three collections of dreamy, hallucinatory seascapes that inspired further.","body":"Ocean Dreams was my first experience with StyleGANs on [RunwayML](https://runwayml.com/) in 2020. It was a custom model trained on drone images I shot around California, Hawaii, and Baja.\n\nI produced 3 distinct collections of generated images. The dreamy, hallucinatory output led to the name `Ocean Dreams` for the project, which led to [Flower Dreams](https://iammatthias.com/art/1738697966004-flower-dreams).\n\n## Generation 1\n\n![](series://generation-1)\n\n## Generation 2\n\n![](series://generation-2)\n\n## Generation 3\n\n![](series://generation-3)","tags":["ai","generative","stylegan","runwayml","drone","photography","oceans","creative-process"],"published":true,"createdAt":"2025-02-05T12:16:00Z","updatedAt":"2025-10-04T13:33:00Z"}