All illustrated in the style of traditional Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th-19th century Edo period known as ukiyo-e, the art this year synthesizes the galaxy far, far away’s long-established ...

Tech icon Steve Jobs was fascinated by Japanese culture, and was particularly passionate about shin-hanga woodblock ... prints usually had two or three times as many layers as ukiyo-e works.

Pitched by Sakana AI, a Japanese startup firm founded by former Google engineers, Evo-Ukiyoe was created by scanning those 24,038 ukiyo-e. Real works were used in the hope of reproducing not only ...

High-Tech Spin for Samurai-Era Ukiyo-E Artist ... of Edo Period woodblock art. Technical wizardry from digital imagery firm Ars Techne reproduces the washi paper texture of his prints.