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This paper pretty closely resembles one that I saw a few months ago: Neural Population Control via Deep Image Synthesis: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/461525v1, which is included among the first few references. They do quite a bit of building off of it, but some of the images in the full paper are definitely as uncanny to look at as the ones included in the article about it above.