Mappa Mundi: An Interactive Artistic Mind Map Generator with Artificial Imagination

Mappa Mundi: An Interactive Artistic Mind Map Generator with Artificial Imagination

Ruixue Liu, Baoyang Chen, Meng Chen, Youzheng Wu, Zhijie Qiu, Xiaodong He

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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.    
Keywords:
AI: Natural Language Processing
AI: Human-Computer Interactive Systems
AI: AI Modelling and Simulation