Mappa Mundi: An Interactive Artistic Mind Map Generator with Artificial Imagination
This work addresses the challenge of enhancing artistic creativity through AI collaboration for artists and exhibition settings, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing AI painting and style transfer concepts.
The authors tackled the problem of AI-assisted artistic mind map creation by developing Mappa Mundi, a real-time collaborative system that integrates voice input, topic expansion, and image projection, resulting in its successful application in an art exhibition in Beijing.
We present a novel real-time, collaborative, and interactive AI painting system, Mappa Mundi, for artistic Mind Map creation. The system consists of a voice-based input interface, an automatic topic expansion module, and an image projection module. The key innovation is to inject Artificial Imagination into painting creation by considering lexical and phonological similarities of language, learning and inheriting artist's original painting style, and applying the principles of Dadaism and impossibility of improvisation. Our system indicates that AI and artist can collaborate seamlessly to create imaginative artistic painting and Mappa Mundi has been applied in art exhibition in UCCA, Beijing