Criatividade Computacional

Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity, IF866) is a course created by Filipe Calegário and co-taught by Giordano Cabral from 2020.3 to 2023.1. It is a 60-hour elective, offered by CIn since 2020 and open to all of UFPE since 2022.2. There is no exam: the grade comes from a project and a reflection report on the process itself. Between the 2020 and 2023 classes, the tools studied went from StyleGAN2 and DeepDream to ChatGPT and GPT-4, and the projects incorporated tools released the previous month.

Six editions co-taught: 2020.2 (IF760), 2020.3 (IF767, remote), 2021.1, 2021.2, 2022.2 and 2023.1 (IF866). With Giordano Cabral's leave for his postdoctoral fellowship, from 2023.2 onward the course continued with Filipe Calegário alone; his repository holds the projects from 2023.2 to 2024.2.

Each student documents examples from the field using a shared template and produces content about creativity; experiments with the semester's tools (StyleGAN, VQGAN+CLIP, DALL·E 2, Stable Diffusion, GPT-3, LangChain, depending on the year); creates an original project "in the artist's shoes", with a public gallery; and develops a final team project — a computational creativity tool — with a pitch, a low-fidelity prototype and architecture, a partially working system, a presentation, a post-mortem and a 360-degree evaluation. In 2022.2, the thirteen final projects were presented in sessions open to the public in the CIn amphitheater.

• https://github.com/filipecalegario/criacomp
• https://portal.cin.ufpe.br/2022/11/18/disciplina-de-criatividade-computacional-e-ofertada-para-alunos-da-graduacao-de-toda-ufpe/

2020.2 — IF760 Criatividade Computacional (Tópicos Avançados em SI 3), May to August 2021

Filipe Calegário's class, with Giordano Cabral as co-instructor, at his invitation, from May 2021.

• Woodcuts with StyleGAN2-ADA — abstract images generated from woodcuts, then transformed through style transfer into an artifact to stimulate the artist's creativity. Team: Alyson Tabosa, Josenildo Vicente de Araújo, Vinícius Padilha Garcia, César Bulhões, Renato Joaquim de Miranda Ferreira.
• T-shirt generator with Style Transfer — T-shirts generated from a blank mask and one or two style images. Team: Aldiberg Gomes, Arthur de Castro, Christian Moura, Rodrigo Albuquerque, Ruy Ovídio.
• PombaYorquenses (or pineapple people) and Expression Transfer — StyleGAN2-ADA's FFHQ model trained on 297 pineapple images to incorporate pineapple features into faces. Team: Anderson Henrique, Gabriel Amancio, Geraldo de Medeiros, Lucas Albuquerque, Saulo Alexandre.
• LombraDream — a Colab tool that applies DeepDream to generate psychedelic patterns over an input image (Team 5).
• Deep Creep — a simulation of DeepDream using style transfer in Google Colab. Team: Germano Carvalho, Douglas Santos, Arthur Santos, Gabriel Barbosa, Lucas Emanuel.
• Project by Caio César Lucena do Monte, Flávio Braga e Silva Júnior, Lucas Asafe Virginio do Nascimento and Yuri Valença Cunha: name not found in the report.

2020.3 — IF767 Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), August to December 2020 (remote)

First edition with Giordano Cabral, in the pandemic's supplementary semester.

• Moodinator — Anderson Henrique Batista da Silva, Gabriel Amancio da Silva, Geraldo de Medeiros Galvão Neto, Hitallo Cavalcanti da Silva, Lucas Alexandre Figueiredo Albuquerque, Matheus de Andrade Lima, Mateus Nunes Galdino da Silveira.
• "Good morning" image generator — generates the greeting images shared in messaging groups. Team: Cláudio Carvalho, Douglas Cavalcante, Evaldo Júnior, Lucas Silva, Luan Brito, Marina Barros, Rodrigo Ferreira.
• Funkfy — creates a new song from two existing ones. Group 8 (music): Daniel Bastos, Felipe Araújo, Gabriela Heimer, José Gabriel, Lucas Mendonça, Pedro Souza, Ruy Ovídio.
• CreativeSoundtrack — a Unity tool that generates customized soundtracks based on emotion. Group 2: André De' Carli, Daniel Filgueira, Danilo Freitas, João Moura, Lucas Valença, Rodrigo Cunha, Victor Miranda.
• Comfeats — a verse generator in the style of artists, using textgenrnn and Python. Team: Alecsandro Silva, Arthur Moreira, Eulália Aires, Igor Poncell, Isabel Lima, Pamella Bezerra, Victor Aguiar.
• Random RPG character generator — André Carneiro, Andrey Moutelik, Arthur Pires, Jonathan Santos, Victor Brayner.
• Random terrain generator — Guilherme Afonso Galindo Padilha, Lucas Thierry Chaves Muniz.
• Pet that changes with the user's photos — Group 1: Aline Gouveia, Daniel Perazzo, Leão Liu, Mário Wessen, Mayara Gomes, Nara Souza, Rebeca Silva.
• Rolê dos gregos antigos — Group 7; description not found.

2021.1 — IF866 Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), section I9 (September to December 2021)

Remote class.

Original projects:

• Mostra de Obras Autorais — virtual landscapes created with Nvidia Canvas. Team: Bruno, Luis, Matheus, Ramon, Rodrigo, Lucas.
• Cadeiras Surrealistas and Arte Cultural (the latter continued as OutfitAfrica). Final projects (tools):

• OutfitAfrica — a new StyleGAN model trained on African prints. Team: Rodrigo de Lima Oliveira, Matheus Hopper Jansen Costa, Lucas Florêncio de Sousa. Code: https://github.com/luucaslfs/outfit-africa-stylegan.
• Easy Sonic Dreams — an interface for audio generation. Team: Bruno Nunes de Mesquita, Lucas Nascimento Tavora, Luis Carlos Lacerda Durans, Matheus Jose Mota de Oliveira, Ramom Jose Correia Santos, Rodrigo Brayner Lyra.
• RPG text generator — an RPG text generator using GPT-3. Team: Anderson Rufino, André Luiz, Hiago Almeida Dias, Lucas Vinicius, Débora Dias, Filipe Samuel. Code: https://github.com/debfdias/rpg-text-generator.
• Bot de trocadilhos para Discord — GPT-2 fine-tuned on jokes responds to the "$trocadalho" command. Team: Matheus Borba, Lucas Barros, Ítalo Ribeiro, Tiago Moraes, Saulo Guilhermino.
• Beat Generator — a lo-fi beat generator on Glitch. Team: Laís Bandeira, Maria Júlia Feitosa, Rafael Jesus de Araujo Vasconcelos.
• Project using OpenAI Jukebox — André Ferreira, André Luís, Antônio Netto, Heitor Santos, João Vítor Valadares, Marcos Prysthon, Robson Pereira.

2021.2 — IF866 Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), February to May 2022

An original project "in the artist's shoes", with public galleries, and a final project, "computational creativity tool".

Original projects:

• Weird Hal I.A.kovich — generative parodies — a gallery of AI-generated parodies, in tribute to Weird Al Yankovic. Team: Pietro Masur, Gabriel Nogueira, Anderson Cesar, André Valença, Pedro Basílio.
• Kpopifier — Bruno Martins, Eduardo Silva, José Lima, Magnon Souza, Tiago Campêlo.
• abbey.sloth — an entirely artificial artist, with generated artworks and texts, published on Instagram (Group 1).
• Na pele do autor — collection of images in the style of painters (Romero Britto, Dalí, Portinari, Anita Malfatti, Monet, Miró, Munch) using style transfer. Final projects:

• Antonoffer — "the perfect music producer": takes an MP3 and the desired style, and returns the music mixed using style transfer. Team: Bruno Martins, Magnon Souza, Tiago Campêlo. Code: https://github.com/tiago-ds/style-transfer-criatividade-computacional.
• Cluster Art — images textured through k-means clustering of color channels. Team: Charles Gabriel Carvalho Cristóvão, Heitor da Rocha Coimbra, Pedro Didier Maranhão, Pedro Tenório Lemos.
• Cegonha — baby name recommendations refined with each round of choices. Team 3: Anderson Cesar, André Valença, Gabriel Nogueira, Pedro Basílio, Pietro Masur.
• Gerador de Frases Desmotivacionais — fine-tuned BERT, GPT-2 and GPT-3. Team: Antonio Paulino, Eduardo Luiz Silva, José Lima, Thiago Henrique Lopes da Silva, Wellisson Franklin Cordeiro.
• Web-DSCRIPT — encodes text in an "alien" writing system (Dimensional Script) to create atmosphere in books, games and jewelry.
• Gerador de linhas sobre imagens — draws animated lines over an image with controls for speed, color and size (Group 1). Code: https://github.com/FactorMouk/CC-ProjetoFinal.

2022.2 — IF866 Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), November 2022 to April 2023

In-person offering open to all UFPE students, with 70 places.

• FearflixAI — generates horror short films from a single text prompt (Group 1).
• DSDoc — assistant for generating software documentation. Team: Erik de Gouveia Zambom, Felipe Durant Freire, Júlia Monteiro Cardouzo, Mateus Gomes de Melo, Matheus Marinho de Morais Leca, Matheus Victor Alves da Silva. Code: https://github.com/dejardim/dsdoc.
• FlickTunes — browser extension that turns text into music using Voicemod Text-to-Song. Team: Elaine Cruz, Leonardo dos Anjos, Marco Antônio, Maria Augusta, Matheus Felipe, Rafael Rodrigues. Code: https://github.com/leonardoAnjos16/FlickTunes.
• Narrative Genie — creation of fictional worlds (characters, places, geopolitics, and images) with GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion (Team 5).
• Harmonização publicitária — José Wilson, Mateus Alves, Mateus Costa.
• LogoMAIker — logo generation based on client needs. Group 10: Artur Leal Brito Sales, Carlos Frederico Pereira Júnior, Carlos Eduardo Mendonça Clark, Cauê Addae da Silva Gomes, João Marcos Lyra Vieira (the group's original creative project: "Coleção Magic Brasil").
• Demixagem com acordes de violão — separates a song into tracks and generates chords for accompaniment. Group 8 (BSI): Alexsandro Henrique, Daniel Moraes, Gustavo Nascimento, Luis Gabriel, Vinicius Luiz.
• Group 9 (Alvaro Gabriel, Evaldo Júnior, Henrique Oliveira, Igor Domingos, Pedro Freitas) and other groups: project names not found.

• Links: https://portal.cin.ufpe.br/2022/11/18/disciplina-de-criatividade-computacional-e-ofertada-para-alunos-da-graduacao-de-toda-ufpe/ · https://portal.cin.ufpe.br/2023/04/12/disciplina-pioneira-de-criatividade-computacional-do-cin-apresenta-projetos-inovadores-em-ia-gerativa/

2023.1 — IF866 Criatividade Computacional (Computational Creativity), May to September 2023

The syllabus: experiments, a timeline of image synthesis, ethical issues, LangChain and Flowise, Stable Diffusion (Web UI and Deforum), DALL-E 2 and Midjourney, prompt engineering for images and text with ChatGPT and GPT-4, other modalities, an original project presented in July, ideation methods, a morphological box with three paths, and the final project in stages — pitch, very low-fidelity prototype with an architecture diagram, partially functioning system, presentation, post-mortem and 360-degree evaluation.

Original projects:

• Visual Novels com IA — stories generated by ChatGPT from song lyrics, with AI-generated settings and characters (Group 10).
• Passo a Passo: Vocais da Loirinha — Alice Oliveira, Ana Letícia, Guilherme Morone, Williams Santiago, Matheus Godinho, Enrique Laborão, Marcello Menezes.
• Collection of original artifacts created with generative AI — David Mateus Leite da Silva, Gilberto Medeiros de Oliveira Junior, Jailson Soares da Silva Junior, Lucas Luis de Souza, Maria Paula Perazzo Sampaio, Mateus da Silva Olegario, Maurício Alves da Silva Junior. Final projects:

• Flashi — flashcard app for language learning, with AI-generated sentences. Team: Camila Xavier, Breno Cavalcanti, Felipe Souza, Bianca Duarte, Luísa Mendes, Maike Menezes, Roseane Oliveira. Code: https://github.com/maikermenezes/flashi-app-front.
• Real-Time Visual Novel — short interactive stories generated in real time with the GPT-3.5 API, with DALL-E images based on keywords from each scene (Group 10).
• Synk Dive — immersive experience of "multisensory harmony" based on visual and textual inputs.
• iNOVE — generation of persuasive product pages. Team: Luan Eustáquio, Luís Felipe Oliveira, Maria Luiza, Matheus Lafayette, Matheus Paixão, Pedro Basílio.
• Song/album cover generation — analyzes the sentiments expressed in the lyrics and generates an original cover (Group 5).

Later offerings (Filipe Calegário)

With Giordano Cabral's leave for his postdoctoral fellowship in 2023.2 and 2024.1, the course continued with Filipe Calegário alone.

• Links: https://github.com/filipecalegario/criacomp