Blade Runner – Autoencoded

For his Master’s thesis, a computer programmer used the film Blade Runner (1982) to train an artificial network called an autoencoder. This program reduced the complex visual data to a small filesize, then reconstructed it frame by frame. This is a scene from the reassembled film, which is both highly abstract and still similar enough for Warner Bros. to order it taken down from Vimeo for copyright infringement.