More than 2,000 cat stock images were used during training, for example, as well as 50,000 pictures of shoes via Zappos and about 137,000 photos of hand bags.

In a tweet, Shane illustrates the various problems that StyleGAN had when generating realistic cats from the images it was trained with. The Style-GAN results are posted and of course I went ...

The researchers declined an interview request but explained their process in a video posted to Youtube on Dec. 12, 2018. So, why couldn't StyleGAN create adorably realistic cat photos?

Cats have a peripheral vision of 30 degrees on each side, compared to 20 percent for humans, which is represented by a deeper and more expansive blurriness in the cat's view photos.

Anyone can view the 3D photos on Facebook right now, but the ability to post them will be rolling out much more slowly. Once it's live, you'll see it in the standard post options.