Through the looking glass: Since being unveiled by OpenAI in early 2021, DALL-E has been turning heads with its ultra-realistic AI image creations. From jaw-dropping to just downright weird, the text-to-image AI system has wowed the internet. Art lovers can now explore a world outside the confines of a frame. DALL-E's new Outpainting feature can expand a picture beyond its original border. OpenAI has introduced a new tool for DALL-E, enabling it to imagine a world beyond the confines of a frame.

OpenAI has added a new "outpointing" function to its text-to-image AI model DALL-E that lets the system generate new visuals that expand the borders of any given picture. In the example above, you can see how DALL-E, with the help of human prompting, "imagines" what's outside the frame of Johannes Vermeer's portrait "Girl with a Pearl Earring." Note, how, even from the limited information provided by the portrait, the system is able to match Vermeer's style, mimicking the shadows and highlights of the original. In the timelapse below, you can also see how the artist responsible, August Kamp, had to expand the image in small sections at a time, often redoing DALL-E's generations in order to get the outcome she wanted. Not seen in this video but definitely worth highlighting, is the fact that the system is not generating these extensions just by itself.

An AI artist can now provide a glimpse of what the background settings of famous paintings and photos may have looked like. OpenAI, a San Francisco-based company, has created a new tool called'Outpainting' for its text-to-image AI system, DALL-E. Outpainting allows the system to imagine what's outside the frame of famous paintings such as Girl with The Pearl Earring, Mona Lisa and Dogs Playing Poker. As users have shown, it can do this with any kind of image, such as the man on the Quaker Oats logo and the cover of the Beatles album'Abbey Road'. DALL-E relies on artificial neural networks (ANNs), which simulate the way the brain works in order to learn and create an image from text.

Denis Shiryaev is an AI wizard who has liberally applied his magic to old film--upscaling, colorizing, and otherwise modernizing scenes from Victorian England, late Tsarist Russia, and Belle Époque Paris. He trained machines to restore the earliest known motion picture, 1888's Roundhay Garden Scene and one of the most mythologized works of early cinema, the Lumière Brothers 50-second Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station. Shiryaev's casual distribution of these efforts on YouTube can make us take for granted just how extraordinary they are. Such recreations would have been impossible just a decade or so ago. But we should not see these as historic restorations.

Researchers have enlisted an AI to help them uncover hidden drawings on the canvas of one of Leonardo Da Vinci most famous paintings. The project was a collaboration between the National Gallery's Dr. Catherine Higgitt and a team from the Imperial College of London, led by Pier Luigi Dragotti. Higgitt and her team at the Gallery had discovered faint sketch marks on the canvas of da Vinci's'Virgin on the Rocks,' which he had originally been commissioned to create in 1483 for a chapel in Milan. Researchers in London discovered a hidden drawing on the canvas of one of Leonard da Vinci's most famous paintings, 'Virgin on the Rocks' (pictured above) The sketchings appeared to hint at an early version of the image that differed from the finished version, which depicts the Madonna with an infant Jesus and an infant John the Baptist in a cavern. The sketches showed wings, which suggested that da Vinci might have originally planned for an angel to be in the painting, as well as a different position for the Madonna.

A contemporary artist has (almost) succeeded in bringing Queen Elizabeth I back to life. In a new exhibit titled'The Mask of Youth', English artist Mat Collishaw has created a strikingly realistic recreation of the Tudor Queen's head with eyes that follow you around the room, blink expectantly and a mouth that opens periodically. The exhibit takes on a surrealist feeling as the animatronic head sits suspended in a mirrored recess, facing the Armada Portrait, one of the most famous paintings of Queen Elizabeth I. In a new exhibit titled'The Mask of Youth', English artist Mat Collishaw has created a strikingly realistic recreation of the Tudor Queen's head with eyes that follow you around the room, blink expectantly and a mouth that opens periodically'The Mask of Youth' is now on view at the Queen's House, Greenwich and was commissioned by Royal Museums Greenwich. When viewers stand in front of the suspended head, they immediately see things from her point of view, reflected in the mirror behind her.

A contemporary artist has (almost) succeeded in bringing Queen Elizabeth I back to life. In a new exhibit titled'The Mask of Youth', English artist Mat Collishaw has created a strikingly realistic recreation of the Tudor Queen's head with eyes that follow you around the room, blink expectantly and a mouth that opens periodically. The exhibit takes on a surrealist feeling as the animatronic head sits suspended in a mirrored recess, facing the Armada Portrait, one of the most famous paintings of Queen Elizabeth I. In a new exhibit titled'The Mask of Youth', English artist Mat Collishaw has created a strikingly realistic recreation of the Tudor Queen's head with eyes that follow you around the room, blink expectantly and a mouth that opens periodically'The Mask of Youth' is now on view at the Queen's House, Greenwich and was commissioned by Royal Museums Greenwich. When viewers stand in front of the suspended head, they immediately see things from her point of view, reflected in the mirror behind her.