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Show HN: Face Generator
- aljmyl 7y agoThis is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings. The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that. You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.
- EFFALO 7y agoLove the faces your tool makes! So wonderfully weird. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
- rectangletangle 7y agoReminds me of some of the characters from the old Moomins cartoon. https://www.dw.com/image/47520360_303.jpg https://www.dw.com/image/47520360_303.jpg
- abrugsch 7y agothe first one it generated for me looked like Aunt Flo from Bod...
- blensor 7y agoFunny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces. After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoothly changing faces.
- tacotime 7y agoVery interesting! My immediate reaction/name for the feeling I had would be frustration. Your comment made me think about the possible connection between those two feeling and low and behold I quickly found this- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustration–aggression_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frustration–aggression_hypothe...
- carrolldunham 7y agoit made me angry too. i got the urge to jump on here and berate the creator for rationalised reasons. it's because the random flipping in response to your reasoned movement feels like an something between an insult and an assault
- mrmonkeyman 7y agoWow. You guys have issues.
- devin 7y agoYou should check out a talk about the myth of objective.
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- dymk 7y agoI took a look at this and thought, wow, this would be great for generating plotter art. Good job!
- jrugk 7y ago"randomize" should be off by default. otherwise it simply looks like it's glitching when you touch any slider
- jv22222 7y agoJust came here to say the same thing. "randomize" should be off by default.
- cjhanks 7y agoAs did I!
- nmstoker 7y agoAgreed. Otherwise it undermines the point of having controls. If the random feature adjusted the settings then it might be a bit more acceptable but leaving them the same whilst drawing a dramatically different face breaks their "control" nature. Once random is off, it's great fun!
- Aardwolf 7y agoYep, I thought it was broken. Maybe a "randomize" button instead that you can press to randomize all variables would work better.
- discordance 7y agoVery cool. Just saw your old post asking about how to form a career around art and technology. I'm also interested in the same. Got a contact?
- aljmyl 7y agoNope.. Lets team up.
- Kiro 7y agoI hope you realize the extreme effect the completely outrageous decision to have randomize on by default has on people. Turn it off before someone goes crazy for real.
- mvkel 7y agoI'm curious, why not build the UI to be more intuitive to begin with? Is it really easier to name things y2, y3, etc. than even a simple descriptor? Genuinely curious, I know it sounds like I'm demeaning. I really am not trying to!
- raymondgh 7y agofun! made one: https://i.imgur.com/KwBNzWQ.png https://i.imgur.com/KwBNzWQ.png
- lotyrin 7y agoIs it intended to be a Little My generator, or is it just me?
- michaelvoz 7y agoI too, see Little My.
- aljmyl 7y agoThe resemblance with Moomin characters is not a coincidence. I'm a big fan of Tove Jansson's work! I've have also made other kind of experiments with face generation: https://github.com/aleksimyllyoja/generative/blob/master/img/faces.png https://github.com/aleksimyllyoja/generative/blob/master/img...
- laputan_machine 7y agothis is actually a really cool, really fast-feedback way to see what tiny changes to the shape or positioning of a mouth or nose gives a dramatically different visual cue. People who've been drawing for years probably know all the little tweaks to make characters look differently, but as someone who isn't, I learnt a something new. Nice!
- andyhmltn 7y agoThis is why I love drawing faces. Such a subtle change can make such a big difference to the end drawing. It's really interesting. I guess that's because our brains are so hard wired to process faces.
- ape4 7y agoThe domain is å.cc, nice
- sdan 7y agoKind of weird, but that's cool! Only problem is typing that by hand...
- a13n 7y agoJust hold down your a key if you're on OS X. A menu will appear and you can either click on the å or press 7.
- siquick 7y agoGreat tip, thanks!
- kzrdude 7y agoOh ok, so further iphonification there. Sounds convenient in this case.
- fouc 7y agoI think you mean opt-a
- saagarjha 7y agoThe former will work if you have not taken the effort to enable key repeat.
- Spare_account 7y agoSo the traditional behaviour of 'key repeat' has been replaced by 'long press context menu'? My initial reaction was one of revulsion ("Why do they need to meddle with everything") but after taking a few moments to calm down I realised I could get used to that change. I think to make it attractive, I would want a quick way to switch between behaviours when I need them. From what I can see, the change between 'long press' and 'key repeat' is effected by launching Terminal, making a configuration change and restarting the machine. I find this unappealing. https://www.howtogeek.com/267463/how-to-enable-key-repeating-in-macos/ https://www.howtogeek.com/267463/how-to-enable-key-repeating...
- city41 7y agoKinda like if Nintendo Miis were made out of vectors. Fun stuff.
- jrugk 7y agoStill better than Oblivion.
- mkagenius 7y agoThank god, atleast some "face" related project that does not use 100s of gpu.
- gecko39 7y agoI was just going to suggest piping this into a pix2pix / CycleGAN trained on face edges for some creepy looking results.
- lxe 7y agoThis is what powers thispersondoesnotexist.
- Camillo 7y agoYes, they just use CycleGAN to go from diagram to photo.
- jonplackett 7y agoA lot of the faces it makes remind me of Toffle from the Moomins https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/toffle/ https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/toffle/
- waiseristy 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
- jjjaa 7y agoIt is lit as fuck and Mymble family resemblance is very cool. It captures some essence of moomin world but is still more abstract eye candy.
- iamnotacrook 7y agoVery frustrating on mobile!
- mysterypie 7y agoNot the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in angles and proportions in a human face makes the difference between recognizable and unrecognizable.
- chrisseaton 7y agoI heard that they deliberately try to not make them too realistic, as it then over-fits. They aren’t sure, so a bit of abstraction helps to overlook where it doesn’t quite match.
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- bhouston 7y agoPlug this into the deep face stuff and this will be really cool.
- app4soft 7y agoThe only issue I see: during changing "scale" face should NOT be regenerated!
- folex 7y agoThis sure is awesome! https://i.imgur.com/255UjuN.png https://i.imgur.com/255UjuN.png I wish all the controls work with randomize on – so I can have random image with some parameters fixed. e.g., if I change some parameter, it stays fixed. Do you have source code for the project? Once again, it's awesome!
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoThis site lets you generate faces via neural net and tweak many parameters interactively: http://www.artbreeder.com/ http://www.artbreeder.com/
- k_sze 7y agoI wonder if it could be a cool replacement for police facial composites.
- ciroduran 7y agoConsider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/ http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/ I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.
- aljmyl 7y agoGreat tip - thank you!
- nojvek 7y agoThis site hacks the back button. If the author is here, please fix it.
- aljmyl 7y agoI'm here, but I don't know what you mean. Could you elaborate?
- aljmyl 7y agoThank you all for the comments - I made few improvements: * Randomize is not on by default * Added more options for adjusting jaw/chin shape * Better ranges for some variables
- HNLurker2 7y agoWtf is this.
- aljmyl 7y agoA Face Generator
- zadkey 7y agoIt's an interesting concept. Seems to have some issues in firefox with changing numbers. It looks like many of the numbers go to a random number after changing rather than the one you set it to.