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Hannu Töyrylä

@htoyryla.bsky.social
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An engineer turned humanities scholar turned visual artist. AI art in my own way since 2015. Or rather... my own art using photography, AI and image processing. Mostly code my own tools myself.

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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Models are trained from scratch on small, visually coherent datasets. Set sizes have varied from 8 to a few thousand images, in some cases even more. Typical training times from a couple of hours to a few days. The goal is to learn visual features, not semantics.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Made a catalog of my main #urdiffusion models showing samples without guidance and with two different init images. No prompts or other guidance used. The images reveal the inherent, learned visual character of each model. liipetti.net/htoyryla/urd...
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Kriitikon arvio on toki hänen omansa, eikä sen kanssa väitellä, mutta jos kriitikko esittää virheellistä tietoa taitelijan työskentelystä, siihen voi toki vastata. vimeo.com/1126585537/4...
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Kuinka taiteeni oikeasti syntyy?
Olen vuodesta 2015 tehnyt taidetta kehittelemällä omaa kuvankäsittelyä johon yhdistelen kuvallista tekoälyä. Nyt kun isot kielimallit…
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Saaran ja minun yhteinen näyttely Rovaniemellä. Siinä sekoittuvat Saaran värikenttämaalaus ja oma tapani käsitellä kaupunkimaisemia, jossa tällä kertaa sekoittuvat niin Rovaniemen keskustan näkymät, Saaran maalaukset kuin myös itse galleriatila. Avajaiset 26.9. 2025 klo 18-20
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Weird stares. (at ArtSibbe25 exhibition, Sipoo, Finland, today)
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
One piece from my Complexions series now on auction as NFT at gallery.manifold.xyz/0x1a722f5890...
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I have updated my artist pages liipetti.net/visual/
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Hannu Töyrylä – Visual arts with a touch of AI
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Lainaan suoraan saksankielistä käännöstä "Dort nahmen die Inder durchaus denselben Platz ein wie die Juden heute in Deutschland" (Martin Buber: Ein Land und zwei Völker", Suhrkamp, 1993, p. 154
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
En tunne riittävästi asiaa Gandhin osalta. Hänen kokemuksensa olivat kai lähinnä kolonialistisesta tilanteesta (Intia ja Etelä-Afrikka). Pitäisi itsekin syventyä (tuohonkin) paremmin. Huomattava ainakin kohta jossa Gandhi vertaa kokemuksiaan Etelä-Afrikassa Saksan tilanteeseen.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Mielenkiintoinen on myös Martin Buberin kirjeenvaihto Gandhin kanssa 1938. Gandhi suhtautuu sympaattisesti juutalaisiin, mutta suosittelee heille samanlaista passiivista vastarintaa (satyagraha) mitä hän itse käytti brittien siirtomaavaltaa vastaan Intiassa.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Modified my urdiffusion to use EULER scheduler. Urdiffusion is for experimenting with training small models on limited private datasets overnight. Focused rather than generic aesthetics.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
What if you train a diffusion model from scratch using only eight images in the training set, and train it only for half an hour.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Complexions. liipetti.net/htoyryla/sp4g/
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Work in progress viewable live at liipetti.net/htoyryla/z12...
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Hannu Töyrylä 2025 WIP
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Points of view. A set of selfies run through several self developed processes. Soundtrack my own music.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
My 10 years in AI art have left a trace in my Twitter/X account. This Grok summary captures the essence if it, even if the details like GPU cable can be excused as poetic license. AI art today is something quite different, I am still going my own ways.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Haven't used Fortran since my tech studies in 76 - 82. At first I had to punch the code to cards, later on had access to a CRT terminal. Today, other than historical interest, don't know what merits Fortran would have compared to Python or C++. Would be interesting to try anyway.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Nyt menee mielenkiintoiseksi. Viime vuonna taidemaalarivaimoni Saara otti maalauksiensa osaksi tekoälyllä tekemiäni (ja enimmäkseen syrjään laittamiani kuvia). Nyt itse otan alunperin maisemakollaaseja kehittelevään prosessiini mukaan Saaran maalauksia, juuri niitä joissa on kuviani mukana.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
A fragment. Around here. With soundtrack.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
How is it possible that everything I am deeply interested in the long run turns out to be controversial. Perhaps everything is.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Some people claim that a generator must be capable of all possible visual styles to allow the artist to find his own style. I prefer to work with generators with a limited range of expression. They are difficult to work with but when you succeed you know it was worth while.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This been my gut feeling for years, based on experience with visual AI since 2015... it is enough that a model knows enough basic visual features, then with appropriate guidance it can produce various artistic effects.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Working on my own GAN again... this is one way to ensure that there's nobody's images involved in the process but mine.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Poorly trained (or designed?) GAN used a generative tool, continued.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I was never into deepdream really... in 2015 neural-style was my favorite... ended up doing all kinds of modifications to the code&algorithm. Always thought that deepdream was not a generator-discriminator architecture, by the way, but used a pretrained classifier to guide image generation.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A GAN that fails to learn correct features from the training set as a generative process on its own right.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
First train a GAN on something... say faces. Then you start a training from this model but using a different dataset. Monitor how the output changes from faces into something else, and save frequently.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Next phase... do you hear something?
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
You have 15 new followers. aka Return of the son of the NQGAN. Working on to revive my favorite tools from the GAN era.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
OK, my new GAN did not work so well with a more diverse dataset, it didn't capture the look of the training set, but I somehow like the results anyway. Here after some final editing.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Reminded me of this... a Finnish landscape view through heavily pouring rain on a car window. No AI used.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My nqgan (my main tool in 2018 to 2020) was quite a monster, I as was constantly adding new options and functionality to try out various techniques. Still, also some other artists managed to use it successfully. github.com/htoyryla/nqgan
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yesterday evening I felt like coding a new GAN implementation using ResNets. Checked ChatGPT for basic code for G and D. There were some errors, but it was a good exercise to find them. After figuring out good learning rates it worked quite well. Now I will start adding some additional tricks...
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Or our vision just functions like that, trying to see order in the chaos of visual features around us?
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
While on the page, try clicking the mouse wheel to jump to another place altogether, or scrolling the wheel to move backwards and forwards in the evolving image sequence.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Adjusting the shortcuts of a U-net. There is so much one can do without any prompts.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A glimpse to my work in progress. Just now a preview of "seesteisemmin repaleista" (torn but more serenely now). A slowly changing view. liipetti.net/htoyryla/wor...
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seestyneemmin repaleista
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
katoamassa taustaan
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Stylemixer is now in Github github.com/htoyryla/sty...
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GitHub - htoyryla/stylemixer: An image mixer building upon the good old neural style transfer
An image mixer building upon the good old neural style transfer - GitHub - htoyryla/stylemixer: An image mixer building upon the good old neural style transfer
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Nope... this is more like it. Made from a selfie using my new image mixer + some final editing in Affinity Photo.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
And the final image in the screenshot above is not even my style. Quite often I am simple exploring the visual effects the varying results have on me. An image emerges, how do I feel about it. Another one... more like mine. Style image my own here too.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
No art works by anybody else have been used here. The style image is from my early experiments using pix2pix as a kind of virtual art printing (from photo to wireframe to color print). The AI model used is VGG19 which was trained using Imagenet, low resolution images for plants, animals and objects.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Added further control at which level style features are detected, roughly on an axis from color through texture to objects and finally to deep dream like effects.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ehdotuksia uudeksi profiilikuvaksi.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
And now I have a GUI app for this. In essence, building an image again from the features of a style target image, with various (experimental) controls over how this is done and based on which features.
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Hannu Töyrylä @htoyryla.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
And corresponding here only the very topmost features have been boosted (and the rest attenuated). I have always felt that this algorithm is undervalued... and so simple and lots to be tweaked.
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