The Internet's recent discovery of Google's "Deep Dream" code has led to a flood of strange, trippy images online. For those who are unaware, the code is a neural network that interprets images and, through an attempt to enhance them, spits out what it thinks the image actually is. When one developer ran an acid trip scene from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas through Deep Dream, it interpreted Johnny Depp's face as an oscillating woodland creature and the walls as shifting prisms. The network also turned dozens of mundane selfies into perturbing visages. Basically, it makes the world look like a trip without having to take acid.
We took some classic images of Chicago and ran them through the Deep Dream network. What resulted was a series of Salvador Dali-esque images that you hopefully never have to see in your own dreams.
Buckingham Fountain looks like a three-eyed horse and a bowling ball
Original Photo: Daniel X. O'Neil/Flickr
This view of the skyline from John Hancock's Signature Room includes the ghost of Jimi Hendrix
Original Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Alternate cover art for Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap?
Original Photo: Hallie Duesenberg
What Chicago's LSD looks like while on LSD
Original Photo: Wikimedia Commons
This hot dog clearly has eyes
Original Photo: Wikimedia Commons
There's something disturbingly sinister about this image
Original Photo: Daniel X. O'Neil/Flickr
Deep dream filter via DeepDreamIt.com