Next step: create a corpus, and feed into a CycleGAN with landscape paintings & photographs as the other, so you can turn a book into a landscape.
Final step: since CycleGAN goes both directions, you can decode an arbitrary landscape painting into a 'book' and use a language model to fill in all the words with the highest-probability word that fits.
It'd be interesting to see if persistent homology can be found in this representation (like it often can be found in phase-delay representations of time-series).
This article uses "aesthetic" as an adjective... am I the only one who finds this irritating?
Yeah I mean it's like in "this has aesthetic value". Like "sympathetic" or "synthetic".
Plenty of nouns are repurposed as adjectives.
Nouns are adjectived and verbed all the time. Language has to evolve somehow, no?