It took a year for AIGC to draw the first 100-meter-long scroll "New West Lake Fansheng Panorama" published

You must know "A Picture of Rising the River during the Qingming Festival", which is the most famous painting handed down from generation to generation in China. It describes the prosperous scene of Kaifeng, the capital city of Henan in the Northern Song Dynasty.

But do you know "The Clear and Interesting Picture of West Lake"? After the Song Dynasty crossed south, a 19-meter-long scroll "West Lake Qingqu" was handed down. The picture began at Qiantang Gate, passing through Broken Bridge, Gushan, Su Causeway, Nanshan Road and other places, and circled the West Lake counterclockwise for a week, leaving us It shows the real and precious life scenes of the West Lake people in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 2022, Bai Xiaosu, a post-95 artist who currently lives in Hangzhou, uses AIGC technology to try to draw a modern version of "New Panorama of Fansheng in West Lake" (hereinafter referred to as Fanshengtu) more than 800 years later. This 100-meter-long scroll refers to the structural composition of "West Lake Qingqu", which reproduces the current landscape features and life scenes by the West Lake.

"Fans Sheng Tu" draws on the "West Lake Qingqu Tu" of the Southern Song Dynasty, and adds the most modern AI technology and intelligent creativity. The whole creative process perfectly interprets the words "inheritance" and "innovation". Since the release of the project, a large number of fans of AIGC and national style culture have followed every step of the progress of "Fan Sheng Tu" in Xiaohongshu.

On May 26, 2023, the West Lake AIGC Cultural Forum was held in Hangzhou, and "Fan Sheng Tu" was released on the forum, which unveiled her mystery.

Figure: Part of "New West Lake Fansheng Panorama"

Includes at least 5,000 buildings, covering a field of view of 82 square kilometers, a "100-meter picture scroll" overlooking the magnificent scenery of the West Lake

It is estimated that 5,000 buildings are included in the "Fan Sheng Tu", which is about 50% more than the ancient picture "West Lake Qingqu". What is quite challenging is that "Fan Sheng Tu" is not a reproduction of the scenery by the West Lake today, it also includes some landscapes that have disappeared, such as the once famous Great Buddha Temple. Therefore, determining the landscape and the specific location is an astronomical project. Bai Xiaosu went through a large amount of data "archaeology" and on-site investigation.

Compared with what to draw, how to draw may be more difficult, and the perspective of the picture is one of them. "West Lake Qingqu" takes the perspective of about 50 meters above the center of West Lake, and is divided into three layers: the water surface layer, the street layer, and the building layer. However, "Fan Sheng Tu" has changed from 3 layers to 5 layers, which makes every inch of the screen "see farther".

"The buildings in Hangzhou are many and tall, the city is bigger, and the scenic area by the West Lake is wider. The three floors are really beyond expression." Bai Xiaosu said.

"Fan Sheng Tu" not only includes almost all the famous scenic spots by the West Lake, but also hides many easter eggs.

The "takeaway" of the four new inventions of the 21st century appeared in the "Fanshengtu". You can only find the food delivery on an electric car if you look closely. Are you hungry? Today's most impressive era memory!

In addition, "Fan Sheng Tu" also buries the elements of the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games, whether it is hangzhouAsianGames or the three cute mascots "Cong Cong", "Lian Lian" and "Chen Chen", all of them are in "Fan Sheng Tu" "Leaving a moving figure.

It is reported that the length of the real scene area of the entire "Fan Sheng Tu" is expected to be 13.6 kilometers, and the coverage field of view has reached a "crazy" 82 square kilometers! The aspect ratio of her picture is 1:65. If the width is 1 meter, the length is 65 meters, roughly equivalent to the height of a 20-story building. If the width is larger, the length can easily be 100 meters.

Figure: AI draws physical scenes into cartoon pictures through "cartoon model" and "deep transformation" technologies

Humanity joins hands with AI to create an "efficiency miracle" in painting history

To remake "The Picture of Fan Sheng", Bai Xiaosu plans to split the long scroll into 25 pictures, complete them one by one, and finally put them together into a "masterpiece". But the difficulty of realizing it obviously exceeded his expectation. Bai Xiaosu said frankly that if thousands of buildings had to be painted by himself, it would take 500 days to paint 10 buildings a day.

Bai Xiaosu is the first batch of painters in China to try AI painting. In August 2022, the Unbounded AI creation tool was officially launched, and Bai Xiaosu was the first user. At that time, he immersed himself in the creator community of Unbounded AI every day, studied crazily, constantly explored and created, and drew a lot of "national style" AI art works.

Therefore, "Fanshengtu" has "AI" figure from the beginning of the project. It is reported that Bai Xiaosu provided Unbounded AI with hundreds of architectural works with a strong personal style, and they were used to train AI drawing models with Bai Xiaosu's personal style. After using this special model, input keywords, and AI can directly create works with Bai Xiaosu's style.

It is this collaboration between humans and AIGC that has greatly improved the efficiency of drawing the "Fan Sheng Tu". Not only that, the functions of "depth image conversion" and "canvas expansion" of AI painting have exerted their "magic power". The former can convert photographic pictures into pictures, which provide a reference for efficient drawing.

It is the participation of AIGC that makes "Fan Sheng Tu" have unique characteristics, and it has also become a 100-meter-long scroll with the heavy participation of AIGC in China.

**Large model + AI painting, everyone can make their own "West Lake Fan Sheng Tu" **

At the West Lake AIGC Cultural Forum, Wujie AI, the creator of Fan Sheng Tu, reached a consensus on cooperation with a number of enterprises in Hangzhou, and its use rights were donated to Hangzhou Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the Executive Committee of China International Animation Festival, and the Management Committee of Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area Hui, Hangzhou Wanshili Silk Culture Co., Ltd., Hangzhou Lingban Technology Co., Ltd. (Rokid), etc.

Picture: "New West Lake Fansheng Panorama" signing ceremony

Just like the creation of IP, "Fanshengtu" will thus enter the stage of derivatives. Wansali Silk will work with Unbounded AI to promote the continuous creation of "Fan Sheng Tu" and the integration of data and reality, and enrich people's cognition of West Lake with the customization of the same IP silk scarf and the creation of digital artwork. Rokid can combine the content of "Fan Sheng Tu" with Rokid's AR glasses hardware to become a work of art that can be displayed in the virtual world. The Executive Committee of the China International Animation Festival may use "Fantastic Victory" as the promotional content of the 2023 China International Animation Festival to promote Hangzhou's Song Yun culture to animation fans around the world.

For Unbounded AI, the derivatives of Fanshengtu are just a starting point. In the near future, it can not only be seen, but also allow citizens and tourists to participate in co-creation.

With the help of AIGC's large-scale model and drawing ability, tourists who come to Hangzhou can generate their own "Fan Sheng Tu" with one click, and portray their travel experience and personal image in Hangzhou into their own "Fan Sheng Tu" to complete the uniqueness. A check-in.

This also means that the IP-based "Fanshengtu" will produce very rich content, and it is completely possible to put the entire Hangzhou into "Fanshengtu" to form a "Fanshengtu" metaverse in Hangzhou.