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Augustus 27 BCE - 19 CE
AI renditions of Roman emperors Augustus (left) and Maximinus Thrax (right) with their statues
Image by Daniel Voshart
https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8f
http://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/8/21/21395115/roman-emperors-photorealistic-portraits-ai-artbreeder-dan-voshart
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MonkeyHittingPianoDramatically
Augustus looks like he'd about to send some green dudes to another country but say they're on vacation only
Playster845
PirateofthePancreas
How do they know hair color?
cooltacos47
Science
TychoTychoAlba
Well hello there Aurelian.
Maaatth
They alwaays forget this one:
Alenelvans
That’s rad as hell
helpwhoyoucanwhenyoucan
How does the AI figure out hair colour and skin tone? Either way it’s super cool
HaikuSorrow
There are a lot of records of these people, due to their fame and infamy. Just like influential people these days.
MrBoombastic
Can we see Biggus Dickus?
Fckimgr
I believe the name you are searching for is “Caligula”
WeaponOfMemeDankitude
And of course, there's Nero
Aksuuuh
The og neckbeard
Shovi
Ew, kill it with fire.
mormacil
He tried
BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
The original neckbeard.
BozoThePie
that sculptor had 0 mercy left in his heart when he chiseled that neck beard
WeaponOfMemeDankitude
Oh, what's that Nero? You want a bust? Oh, I'll make you a bust, you smushed face, mommy murdering, fiddling fucker.
BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
Gotta say, they did an excellent job with those statues. It looks just like them!
naery
You're letting your immortality show a bit there...
NapoleonDynOmite
How old are you?
mypatronusridesinatardis
Hostilian looks like such a bro
ihopethisusernamewillbelongenoughsopeoplewillnoticeme
His real name was Hostichad
agonarch
He spends most of his time with the stoner Commodus, getting shit from the RA Caligula.
giveusalol
He looks a bit like Zac Efron!
PuckerUpPutin
Augustus lookin like he boutta hit a nasty kickflip and make some video games about himself
Ruik
Augustus... or Gabe from The Office.
ArthurPhillipDent
How do you give a statue AI?
InfinitusEquitas
Well, you beat it real hard, and shock it with electricity until it spits out binary.
wandergeist
Augustus (aka Octavian)
countbassy
Nero looks like a dick
jjSithLord
Hair Club for Men website. Cool renderings bro. +1
minuteye
It's cool how much of a family resemblance you can see among some of them. That Julio-Claudian nose was pretty dominant.
HeyQueef
Not shocked Caligula and Nero have punchable faces
NickRivieraMD
Elagabalus was as dissolute, although not cruel, as Caligula, but he just looks like a lost nerdy kid.
CaptinCuddles
Ironically enough historians are coming to the opinion Caligula wasnt really that bad, since most stuff we have are essentially rumours 1/2
CaptinCuddles
Were forever embellished upon
Apapaia
Caligula kinda reminds me of Quentin Tarantino
sykoticflaw
Came here to say that. Would explain a lot.
CovidIsAirborne
This is astounding, really brings the past to life, +100
Skpicky
Real shame Julius Caesar was cut.
mormacil
He was Jewish?
Cruxador
Actually, he was stabbed.
AtsaMattaForMe
RoloTonyBrown
Anybody else think Kevin McKidd (the actor who played Vorenus in HBO’s Rome) looks a lot like the statue of Augustus above?
D0cH0lliday
THIRTEEN!
dmd3eorg
fuck I thought that was Zuckerberg
NoDefinitivelyNotARobot
Where is my homie Julius?
InfinitusEquitas
Getting stabbed out back.
CaptinCuddles
Unfortunately he was before Emperors were a thing, Augustus the first Emperor was his heir and adopted son
AnExplanation
Considering his role in the linneage of emperors, I wouldn't have been opposed to him getting an "honorable mention".
KrakenBear
Thrax looks like a villain in a sc-fi game. The Sympathetic war criminal who saw atrocity or whatever
Eburovici
HA! Fucking Nero looks like the creep we expect.
RatToofus
Horrible Histories does a good job depicting Nero. **shudders** living human candles (I think it was Nero...)
NapoleonDynOmite
Caligula looks like fucking psycho he was too.
Donjauntauntaun
Yea Nero definitely looks like he’d commit arson
josephmc5612
He definitely looks like he has genocide on his mind.
normalizetherapy
Caligula looks like Quentin Tarantino
normalizetherapy
Thrax looks like george clooney
Lickycat
You were so correct that when I went back I could pick him before I zoomed in to read the name.
elect86
Most people ignore this, but Nero actually did quite good things for the people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero
CaptinCuddles
Yeah but we have ingrained 2000 year old propaganda calling him the big mean
JeffGriffin
He did both. https://youtu.be/WIW10E1xAOI
Markamanic
Looks like he just did.
StagBeetles
Never trust a ginger with fire.
Drakhma
oh yea he does. lol even looks like hes going "mmm yea thats a good fire."
JamesJabberwocky
Which he then did not do.
josephmc5612
It would be cool to know if the statues ever had color, or leftover pigmet.
trigaranus
They did, and do. You'll actually find rather garish reconstructions for the famous Augustus statues.
HardTimeKillinFoulNews
I know Greek statues and temples were initially painted in vivid colours. I'm not sure about the Roman ones.
Iaimtomisbehave
These are very fine, thanks for posting OP.
SimSimSimsalabim
Augustus kind of looks like Daniel Craig.
MrWalker78
If Daniel Craig and Putin had a love child.
pmichaelkelley
What happened in 193? 3 different emperors
jobbylord
Or Christopher Ecclestone
mormacil
Rome wasn't always that stable...
HaveYouEverEverFletLikeThis
They kept killing each other
FisterMantastic
In one word: murders. lol
JamesJabberwocky
Jesus, wait until you hear about the year of the four emperors.