Gemini 4 Argon writes a canvas renderer to recreate a skyline photo as an oil painting

Google's Philipp Schmid says Gemini 4 Argon, given a photo of the Manhattan skyline and asked to recreate it as an oil painting, wrote a multi-pass canvas renderer.

According to Schmid, the renderer first lays down broad background strokes, then blocks in the buildings and river, and finishes with fine specular highlights on the water.

The only source is Schmid's post on X, which shows the code-driven approach but does not report the quality of the final image.