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+# Generative Adverserial Network for generating images similar to an image dataset
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+The code here is a slightly altered version of the code that has been generously made publicly available at https://github.com/gsurma/image_generator
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+As an introduction to the world of GANs, I decided to try the above model on some different datasets. You can see the results of two example trainings in the respective output folders.