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This is really fun. As a designer/amateur artist, the most interesting part about this to me was seeing other people's drawings/most-basic-concepts-of-a-thing

by oliv__ 10y ago

This is really fun. As a designer/amateur artist, the most interesting part about this to me was seeing other people's drawings/most-basic-concepts-of-a-thing drawn out: which lines they draw, which ones they don't, how they express an idea in the most essential way, basically. (the 20s really helps) It's a great window into how people think about things. As a reference: I couldn't understand why it didn't recognize my keyboard (http://imgur.com/fXk6Gg9 http://imgur.com/fXk6Gg9) but then it hit me hard when I saw other people's drawings (http://imgur.com/J7Lqodw http://imgur.com/J7Lqodw).

vidarh 10y ago
Caveat: I noticed I quickly started adjusting my drawings to exaggerate the most stereotypical features, and resort to stereotypes overall, because they seemed more likely to get recognised. So it is not just how people think about things, but at least in part also how people think other people will have thought about things guided by seeing the examples of other drawings.
- oliv__ 10y ago
  Well, true, but I'm not sure anyone outside the HN crowd would try to hack it that way.
- the_af 10y ago
  Interesting! This is how I play Pictionary, by the way: not how I would draw something (I'm a decent artist) but in the most stereotypical way, exaggerating every feature.
mholmes680 10y ago
Along those lines, I found it interesting that of the request for "guitar", I drew one with arm from top-right to bottom-left. So did 17 others on the results page. 3 were vertical-no-slant, and only one went from top left to bottom right. Did we all see the same picture book growing up? Are most righties drawing it one way and lefties another (to which I would be a counter-example)? the guitar from top-left to bottom-right didn't look wrong at all, but why were most drawing it the other way? Also, no one drew an electric guitar. Shame on us humans. This is fascinating to me more for the human-view than the ML piece...

by oliv__ 10y ago

vidarh 10y ago

Caveat: I noticed I quickly started adjusting my drawings to exaggerate the most stereotypical features, and resort to stereotypes overall, because they seemed more likely to get recognised. So it is not just how people think about things, but at least in part also how people think other people will have thought about things guided by seeing the examples of other drawings.

oliv__ 10y ago
Well, true, but I'm not sure anyone outside the HN crowd would try to hack it that way.
the_af 10y ago
Interesting! This is how I play Pictionary, by the way: not how I would draw something (I'm a decent artist) but in the most stereotypical way, exaggerating every feature.

mholmes680 10y ago

Along those lines, I found it interesting that of the request for "guitar", I drew one with arm from top-right to bottom-left. So did 17 others on the results page. 3 were vertical-no-slant, and only one went from top left to bottom right. Did we all see the same picture book growing up? Are most righties drawing it one way and lefties another (to which I would be a counter-example)? the guitar from top-left to bottom-right didn't look wrong at all, but why were most drawing it the other way? Also, no one drew an electric guitar. Shame on us humans. This is fascinating to me more for the human-view than the ML piece...