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Thiings
- HanClinto 1y agoCool site! But why does it exist? Will it be around in 6 months? What is the backstory / creator of this project? It's odd that they use their own license language, and doesn't use something explicit like CC-BY-NC. It appears to be a non-commercial, non-distribution license, but otherwise free for personal and commercial use...? Appears that the site is funded through being able to purchase sponsorship spots for $10 / mo.
- staticshock 1y agoConfusingly, the about page suggests that this is an AI-driven storytelling app: https://www.thiings.co/about https://www.thiings.co/about. Maybe that's a vestige of prior iteration of the app, though. The concept minds me of the million dollar homepage, where you could pay a dollar per pixel of advertisement. Here, you're paying a dollar (that's a guess; i didn't check) to get a new object listed in the potentially infinite grid, which gives you a unique URL for that object, an emoji-like reference image, and a one-paragraph description for aliens, were they to land on earth and ask what that object was for. Basically, looks like an art project that monetizes participation.
- huhtenberg 1y agoAlong the same lines, less "cute", but far more extensive - https://thenounproject.com https://thenounproject.com
- graypegg 1y agoI've contributed a bit to Noun Project, it's lovely. Submitted icons need to pass a manual quality gate, which does take a while, but it means that you don't run into bad AI slop or broken SVG paths as often as you do from other stock graphics services.
- fredley 1y agoNoun Project is fantastic. It's been around for at least a decade and it's hard to find things with no icons these days. I notice it suffers from the same London Bridge problem, do people never learn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_Cit...
- cyclotron3k 1y agoIf you're making an icon of Tower Bridge, you're going to tag it with "London" and "bridge", so it's going to turn up in all searches for London bridge. At this point though, the two bridges should just swap names.
- ipsum2 1y agoThey're AI generated and look quite nice, no obvious artifacts (messed up text). Not sure what the use case is though.
- jedahan 1y agoIt was weird reading the description for gigan as a cyclops but the image showing 2 eyes.
- Jordan-117 1y agoKind of sloppy, though. An impossible Rubik's cube, a sudoku puzzle with incorrect numbers, a mirror showing a non-reversed reflection, a domed White House, a US flag with 32 stars...
- barkerja 1y agoI treat them kind of like icons/emoji, which often don't have a lot of fidelity due to size constraints.
- krackers 1y agoSo you can pretend you are an alien learning about human culture.
- munificent 1y agoThe scissors here are not what I'd describe as "no obvious artifacts": https://www.thiings.co/things/cross-stitch-kit https://www.thiings.co/things/cross-stitch-kit
- svachalek 1y agoI don't see scissors on this page, although the yarn coloring is unlikely.
- munificent 1y agoOh, wow, they must have regenerated it. When I was there, it had some busted scissors with metal bars sticking out in both directions around the fingerholes.
- Centigonal 1y agoThis is a great idea, but the monetization model will not stand the pressure of market forces. Icons is a race to the bottom, even with relatively high-cost human labor
- staticshock 1y agoI think this is best seen as an art project, not as a business idea. I'm also assuming that the cost to run such an app are near zero, so the break-even cost would probably be, like, one person a month generating one new thing.
- Centigonal 1y agogood point on break-even cost. I can't consider this an art project when the creator has integrated: - A lifetime membership fee for downloading all icons - A sponsorship subscription option that lets subscribers integrate their own icon (ad) into the collection - A credits system for generating new icons using AI Nothing against creators getting paid, just saying that this is monetized to the gills and looks more like an indie hackers thing than an art project.
- kurrupttt 1y agoSuper helpful, i was just looking for some 3d elements of bonfires and dolphins to go with my apps aesthetic. the timing could not have been better :D thanks!
- toddmorey 1y agoI am interested in guidance for generating a custom icon like this with a similar level of style consistency. I know there are some resources out there with guidance, but does anyone know any really good ones?
- wigiv 1y agoThis is absolutely not my area of expertise, and I can't fully vouch for how well it works, but I was looking for a similar solution for consistency across website graphics and came across this walkthrough for consistent game assets: https://runware.ai/blog/creating-consistent-gaming-assets-with-controlnet-canny https://runware.ai/blog/creating-consistent-gaming-assets-wi... Maybe helpful?
- Destiner 1y agoone good technique is to pass the style guide as a json, where you define materials, lightning, perspective, etc you can even use a vision model to generate the style guide for you
- toddmorey 1y agoVery clever thank you
- rglover 1y agoMe as well. The one thing I've struggled with is consistently getting a combination of object-only and transparent background.
- timnetworks 1y agoGenerate something you like the style of, then run it back through a vision model and ask it to describe the image without describing the subject, append that to a batch of icon descriptions, easy custom icons. (figure out transparency at this step) Then ask it for an imagemagick script that will convert them into needed sizes and formats. very manual yes, but gives a lot of control [edit] the images seem to be made with a transformers model rather than diffusion (e.g. DallE3 vs MidJourney) which is mostly proprietary for now.
- wvbdmp 1y agoOf course it has “Reaper Drone” as well as several different tanks and war planes, but not, for instance, “dildo”.
- immibis 1y agoOrdinary sex is far more disturbing than the mass murder of millions, obviously. I wonder if the reason for that particular cultural norm is the need to manufacture consent for the mass murder (while the government couldn't give a shit either way about sex).
- astnai 1y agoso good
- fredley 1y agoThe entry for London Bridge is wrong, Tower Bridge is depicted.
- extesy 1y agoStaff is also wrong: https://www.thiings.co/things/staff https://www.thiings.co/things/staff - shows a group of people but describes a stick.
- fredley 1y agoAnd some of those people have mouths and noses, some don't. Creepy image.
- dsego 1y agoThe needle is all wrong, the thread doesn't go through the eyelet. https://www.thiings.co/things/needle-unott0 https://www.thiings.co/things/needle-unott0
- paxys 1y agoIt instead goes through the needle itself... Just AI things
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- munificent 1y agoTake a look at the scissors on the cross stitch kit: https://www.thiings.co/things/cross-stitch-kit https://www.thiings.co/things/cross-stitch-kit
- fredley 1y agoThe image for Physics shows an impossible Newton's Cradle. The balls should be, well, cradled between two strings. https://www.thiings.co/things/physics https://www.thiings.co/things/physics
- _august 1y agoSomewhat relevant GitHub project, for generating Genmoji-style images: https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/open-genmoji https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/open-genmoji
- paxys 1y ago> Thiings is a growing collection of 1,900+ free AI-generated 3D icons "Free", but downloading the entire collection requires a payment. And according to the terms: > 4. Content > You retain all rights to your content. By using our service, you grant us a license to host and display your content. But then they advertise that anyone can download and use these pictures? Under what license?
- Hamuko 1y agoIf they're AI-generated, just grab them and ignore the terms. What are they gonna do, claim copyright?
- zer00eyz 1y agoI see someone has heard from their legal department on AI tools.
- shortrounddev2 1y agoSeriously, why would I pay for someone else to generate AI images?
- jstummbillig 1y agoBecause it requires work and you place value on your time
- MarcelOlsz 1y agoDoes it really require work though?
- dalmo3 1y agoCould you share a similar library you've built without any work?
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- dvh 1y agoCapacitor looks weird. When I type "lead" is offers me to add it, but when I type "asp" it shows me "wasp" without option to add "asp" (a fish). Diode is shorted. I really don't understand the purpose of this.
- moralestapia 1y agoThen don't use it. Simple as.
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- the-anarchist 1y agoI second that.
- hayleox 1y agoSo many of them look weird. The aesthetic seems to be soft, clay-like icons but then there will be lots of weirdly detailed or sharp parts. And there's so many weird specific design choices that a human artist would not make. Why is the subway tunnel curved on one side and squared on the other side? Why does the nature journal have two different bookmarks (one of which awkwardly covers the E in NATURE)? Why would a wall outlet have one plug with a ground prong and one without? Why does the Golden Gate Bridge look like an M.C. Escher piece? Why does the bingo ball look more like a pool ball? Also a lot of items that are very clearly a specific brand, even though the description is generic. The "smart thermostat" is a Nest. The "soccer shoe" is made by Adidas. The "smart speaker" is an Amazon Echo Dot. The "wireless earbuds" are AirPods (and for some reason there's three of them). And then there's the blatant AI goofs; the logo and text being distorted on the HP 11c calculator, the VCR having an EPICT button and a REE jack, the TARDIS reading "POLIC BOX", the egg timer reading "30 10 10 10 15", the playing cards having two aces of clubs (one of which is red). I like this handmade/clay aesthetic, but it completely falls apart when it's obvious a human hasn't touched it. If I want handmade icons, I'll pay an artist for them; if I want AI slop, I can generate it myself.
- agcat 1y agoSo cool!
- awfulneutral 1y agoSpinosaurus is the inaccurate one from Jurassic Park 3 and Tyrannosaurus has inaccurate hand rotation. Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus are also from Jurassic Park and highly inaccurate. For shame!
- Waterluvian 1y agoThis page feels like one of those times that touch and drag inertia would really be a benefit. It feels so clumsy to navigate on my phone but looks so close to being a delight.
- ivanjermakov 1y agoI also want to pinch zoom out to see the full database, but I guess they won't give it out for free.
- the-anarchist 1y agoReally, that's your takeaway from all of this?
- Waterluvian 1y agoWell… I guess if I’m limited to only discussing the most significant part of any issue, it would have to be that none of this matters, agency is an illusion, and we should all sell our computers and find people to feed. But touch drag inertia is a close second.
- GuinansEyebrows 1y agoI searched for "hot dog" and got "Oxford University".
- ivanmontillam 1y agoThere's a Five Guys near the University of Oxford, so that seems an appropriate search return to me.
- nick-sta 1y agoLove the website design, but that rsc lag is painful.
- the-anarchist 1y agoLove this beautiful pattern wallpaper generator but I have two questions: How do I save a pattern (rightclick download doesn't work) and can you make the background color adjustable? Thanks!
- skrhee 1y agoSearching for "baby carrier" is hilarious
- timnetworks 1y agoHow did you get fireship to narrate? (more seriously, the timing on the playback does not seem to account for load time, audio may start a couple words in if not instantly loaded)
- snwfog 1y agoReally cool!