[HN Gopher] Each country as a Pokemon, using Stable Diffusion
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       Each country as a Pokemon, using Stable Diffusion
        
       Author : montebicyclelo
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-09-20 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | cookiengineer wrote:
       | I was looking at Germany, expecting a bureaucrat pokemon. I was a
       | little disappointed :D
        
       | Shorel wrote:
       | Chad looks more like Colombia than Colombia.
       | 
       | I can't see any logic in Venezuela.
        
       | TillE wrote:
       | A bunch of these (eg, Cameroon) have a weird extra limb, which is
       | basically consistent with my experience of Stable Diffusion: it
       | frequently produces images that are physically impossible,
       | architecturally nonsensical, etc.
       | 
       | I'm not sure other models are better. I don't think they are.
       | Seems like a big problem that won't be easy to solve.
        
       | Magi604 wrote:
       | Interesting premise, but unfortunately the results are not.
       | There's nothing in the designs of the Pokemon that ties them to
       | their connected country, so they all just end up looking generic.
        
         | montebicyclelo wrote:
         | Canada has a maple leaf for a tail :D [1]
         | 
         | But yep, I do hope to improve this. (And if I don't, I'm sure
         | someone else will.)
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/sradc/each-country-as-a-pokemon-stable-
         | di...
        
           | aaaaaaaaata wrote:
           | Good attitude!
        
         | jannyfer wrote:
         | I spot checked a few and the generated pokemon colours matched
         | their flags.
        
         | Harlekuin wrote:
         | Australia is a kangaroo with nipple tassels and a missing toe -
         | pretty spot on
        
         | bee_rider wrote:
         | Ukraine got the colors right at least.
         | 
         | Vatican City is pretty good.
         | 
         | It is sort of interesting that United States and US Virgin
         | Islands both have blue bodies and red paws.
        
       | Xeoncross wrote:
       | It's a been couple decades since I first saw pokemon, but is this
       | what they look like now? Most of them kind of look like the same
       | 2-legged, mammal thing in different primary colors.
        
         | dragontamer wrote:
         | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Lechonk_(Pok%C3%A9mo...
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         | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mimikyu_(Pok%C3%A9mo...
         | 
         | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Greninja_(Pok%C3%A9m...
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         | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Buzzwole_(Pok%C3%A9m...
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         | https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Corviknight_(Pok%C3%...
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         | 
         | Honestly, these monsters don't look much like Pokemon to me.
         | But maybe cause I've played a good chunk of Pokemon.
         | 
         | I think its impressive that Stable Diffusion can make such
         | "artwork", but its not quite "Pokemon". There's something
         | terrible going on with Stable Diffusion's generation of eyes
         | here, I don't know quite what, but its like Stable Diffusion
         | doesn't understand "anime perspective" at all.
         | 
         | The eyes are often "bouncing" between 3/4ths perspective and
         | straight-at-the-camera perspective, sometimes within the same
         | generated monster. The algorithm is also trying to generate a
         | 2nd face in the bottom-right of a lot of these pictures, for
         | some reason.
        
         | sbf501 wrote:
         | It's about catching/buying them all. Best marketing strategy
         | ever.
        
         | Multicomp wrote:
         | Some are two legged, others are 4, still others have 6 limbs
         | like centaurs, and even so others have a 4 legged creature and
         | a two legged TV stand thing following them around.
         | 
         | But I suspect their similar texture is because stable diffusion
         | was trained on the official artwork for Pokemon rather than
         | their in-game sprites/models, though that is just a guess.
        
         | oneoff786 wrote:
         | Thankfully no, they're still good
        
       | char_star_star wrote:
       | Now just train a model to generate types and move sets from
       | Pokemon images and you can do procedurally generated Pokemon
       | games.
        
       | Multicomp wrote:
       | I am incredibly impressed with this post and with the novel
       | results of Stable Diffusion already.
       | 
       | The result for Ivory Coast looks like the latest+ dark n edgy
       | brooding Pokemon for ash and company to love on and teach that
       | life is not all grimdark after all, some 5 or so episodes after
       | Ash gets to a new region and re learns type matchups for the Nth
       | time.
       | 
       | +next in line after Mewtwo and Lucario
        
       | oneoff786 wrote:
       | Vatican City is great. The rest... meh. These feel a bit overfit
       | to me. I can tell with relative high confidence which pokemon is.
       | 
       | Ukraine is kind of cool with a custom articuno vibe
        
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