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Horrifying image generator turns your doodles into super weird cat pics

Can't unsee.

Christine Wang

on February 22, 2017

What if your terrible cat drawings could look like the nightmarish real thing? Well now it can.

Christopher Hesse has created an image-to-image translator, which is a program that has been trained to recognize certain visual cues and will match them with a corresponding photo.

Hesse has created a few different iterations of the translator, one of which can generate building facades. Another can generate shoes, and still another does handbags. All of these generators are designed to read the doodle approximation of the object and then output an image that closely matches from a database of photos.

In a weird turn from the norm, Hesse also created a version that turns doodles into cats, using the same principle. He tweeted out the exemplar for what this would look like.

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Cute, right? It would be great for us to have our terrible cat doodles turned magically into a very photo-realistic cat.

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Since Hesse put the generator on the internet for anyone to use, people with our same thought have given it a try. The results were 100 percent not what Hesse showed us in his photo.

Your attempts at a basic cat drawing becomes magically turned into some monstrous approximation of a real thing and you are left with unnatural horrors. Fun!

This is what we got when we tried to input a very basic doodle.

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Not great.

Here are what other people got.

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Since horrors were being created even when people attempted to draw cats, some simply abandoned the pretense of cats and started drawing whatever they wanted.

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I'm sure we're going to see many of these creations in the next Resident Evil game. Until then, we are so done with this. Bye.

Christine Wang

Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).