[HN Gopher] Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things ki...
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       Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are
       real
        
       Author : smartmic
       Score  : 68 points
       Date   : 2022-08-03 19:28 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.thingsihavedrawn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.thingsihavedrawn.com)
        
       | gus_massa wrote:
       | In the "press" section it has a video about how he makes the
       | images. Direct link to the exact moment of the explanation
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e1DWD_GRQ&t=165s
        
       | StrictDabbler wrote:
       | It's a good thing he got his fifteen minutes of fame before an AI
       | was created to do exactly the same thing.
        
         | elcomet wrote:
         | I actually thought this was an AI
        
       | djaychela wrote:
       | Reminds me of these odd bikes:
       | 
       | https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/
        
       | andybak wrote:
       | I wish Dall-e was more like this.
        
       | melony wrote:
       | The pictures look the like were generated by ML
        
         | amelius wrote:
         | Yes, equally disturbing.
        
       | nlh wrote:
       | This is fun and cool. Also, I kind of expect that DALL-E (or, a
       | variation thereof) will be able to do this with the right
       | prompts. Hope he doesn't get too attached to the manual process
       | and keeps the project going when the AI comes for his jerb ;)
        
       | rossdavidh wrote:
       | aka "with sufficiently clever software you can turn innocent and
       | charming children's drawings into nightmare fuel!"
        
         | manholio wrote:
         | Except the photo-manipulation suite, they are not done by
         | software.
        
         | oliwary wrote:
         | Isn't this an important plot point in the spy kids movie?
        
           | scoot wrote:
           | _Duh Bob_
        
           | andybak wrote:
           | Reminded me of
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperhouse_(film)
        
       | flobosg wrote:
       | This reminded of a special edition of Magic: The Gathering cards
       | which were illustrated by children, along with a professional
       | artist's interpretation:
       | https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/secret-la...
        
       | jamesakirk wrote:
       | Mad Magazine did this in 1963... "If kids designed their own Xmas
       | toys": https://imgur.com/gallery/45RGR
        
         | scrame wrote:
         | Thank you! I know Maddox did a similar gag in the early 2000's,
         | but I always think of the Mad version.
        
         | scandox wrote:
         | Also Kevin Woodcock in Private Eye in the 90s had a cartoon
         | working on this concept.
         | 
         | https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/private-eye-a-cartoon-h...
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         | https://media.itsnicethat.com/images/527cddc45c3e3c348f000ea...
        
       | TedDoesntTalk wrote:
       | How can I take my kid's drawings and do the same?
        
       | mkl95 wrote:
       | It reminds me of pix2pix https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/
        
       | redanddead wrote:
       | I got a lot more than what I expected
        
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