Synthetic doves.

Synthetic doves.

I made a very nice video of synthetic fireworks last night to try a 2017 technique that predicts the most likely next frame of video based on a short sequence. @the_great_rudino thought that the fireworks looked too much like munitions to share with you today given what's happening in the Middle East. She's right. I considered running them backwards, as if the rockets were returning to the guns. Not bad, but I started over with doves.

It required 145 epochs to train this model--twice as many as it took to make the rockets. That seemed about right.