67 Minutes for Mandela!
67 Minutes for Mandela!
Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela’s birthday. The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010. However, other groups began celebrating Mandela Day on 18 July 2009.
On 27 April 2009, the 46664 concerts and the Nelson Mandela Foundation invited the global community to join them in support of an official Mandela Day. Mandela Day is not meant as a public holiday, but as a day to honour the legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s former President, and his values, through volunteering and community service.Mandela Day is a global call to action that celebrates the idea that each individual has the power to transform the world, the ability to make an impact.
The Mandela Day campaign message is:
“Nelson Mandela has fought for social justice for 67 years. We’re asking you to start with 67 minutes.”
“We would be honoured if such a day can serve to bring together people around the world to fight poverty and promote peace, reconciliation and cultural diversity,” according to a statement issued on Mandela’s behalf.To mark the first global celebration of Mandela Day on 18 July 2009, Mandela’s 91st birthday, a series of educational, art exhibit, fund-raising and volunteer events leading up to a concert at Radio City Music Hall on 18 July were organised by the 46664 concerts and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly formally declared 18 July to be “Nelson Mandela International Day”.
“We would be honoured if such a day can serve to bring together people around the world to fight poverty and promote peace, reconciliation and cultural diversity,” according to a statement issued on Mandela’s behalf.To mark the first global celebration of Mandela Day on 18 July 2009, Mandela’s 91st birthday, a series of educational, art exhibit, fund-raising and volunteer events leading up to a concert at Radio City Music Hall on 18 July were organised by the 46664 concerts and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly formally declared 18 July to be “Nelson Mandela International Day”.
Mandela Neural Network Art
Mandela Neural Network Art
We can do a bit of neural network art on Mandela’s portraits, in our 67 minutes of remembering Mandela.
Let us get 10 images of Mandela (Madiba), from the web:
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How about choosing the fourth portrait:
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Let us get the South Africa flag:
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Let us restyle Mandela’s image, to follow the graphical style of the map of South Africa:
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Now, let us get the pretrained net model “CycleGAN Photo-to-Van Gogh Translation” from the Wolfram Neural Network repository. Released in 2017, this model exploits a novel technique for image translation, in which two models translating from A to B and vice versa are trained jointly with adversarial training. In addition to the adversarial loss, cycle consistency is also enforced in the loss function: when the output of the first translator is fed into the second, the final result is encouraged to match the input of the first translator. This allows successful training for image translation tasks in which only unpaired training data can be collected. This model was trained to translate photos into Van Gogh-style paintings.
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Let us create a new encoder with the dimensions of the forth portrait:
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We now attach the new net encoder and run the network:
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Now, the Van Gogh-style painting of Mandela:
The Nelson Mandela curve
The Nelson Mandela curve
Let us also have look at the Nelson Mandela curve:
Properties of the Mandela curve:
How about looking at a Mandela’s 3D print image?
Pebble stone image of Mandela:
Now, importantly - the parametric equation of the Mandela curve:
Happy Mandela day!