Turning Images of Earth into Abstract Art

The image above is what happens when you take a satellite photo of Earth and use an artificial-intelligence program to give it a makeover in the style of an early 20th-century painter. It's just one of many remarkable images recently posted to Instagram by Bill Morris, a cartographer at Faraday, a data analytics company in Burlington, Vermont. Morris says he was inspired by Meredith Scheff-King, an artist who recently made watercolor paintings of satellite imagery. He wanted to try something similar but didn't have that kind of artistic talent. That's where the AI came in.