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Just when you thought that anime character designs couldn't get any more generic, machine learning comes to the rescue:
A collaborative team from Fudan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Tongji University and Stony Brook University have created a generative adversarial network (GAN) that can generate high-quality anime character drawings with just minimal input from humans. You can check the demonstration website and make your own anime renders by inputting some basic preferences.
You can choose hair and eye color and then decide on what accessories you might like such as glasses, hats or ribbons. The site will then generate a character for you based on your inputs. There are some things that could be improved for sure, but overall, it's a really fun application.
Researchers used a technique called DRAGAN to train the AI. The demo site was built on ReactJS. The scientists have summed up the full process in more detail in this technical report. The source code is also available from here.
Of course, designing a character is only the first step. How about a custom Gatebox holographic waifu? Or import your character into an advanced VR fantasy world powered by petaflops GPUs. Which is just a stopgap measure until you jack into the Matrix directly, allowing you to caress your loved one (as far as your brain is concerned).
Is this what happens when you poach Carnegie Mellon University's top scientists?
"Moe" (pronounced "mo-ayyy") refers to "kawaii"/cute characters.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @09:49PM (15 children)
Fuck me. I've been mucking computers since the 70s, making a living off it for several decades, and nothing in TFS make any sense to me.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday August 18 2017, @10:14PM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 18 2017, @10:19PM (2 children)
Scrappy-poo?
;)
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday August 19 2017, @07:34AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:33PM
They knighted him???
My wife calls him penis head: she likes Janeway ('natch) while I'm old school Kirk.
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday August 18 2017, @10:58PM (1 child)
I wonder how much tax money went into this.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 18 2017, @11:48PM
👋 It's worse. They are only making 128 × 128 head shot versions of virtual dress-up dolls with a japanese cartoon theme. 💢
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(Score: 2) by Geezer on Friday August 18 2017, @11:21PM (6 children)
It's about low-grade Japanese animation technology. Crap that replaced Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, and Popeye.
You know, Geezer stuff.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by takyon on Friday August 18 2017, @11:40PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLF4NjTNr1o [youtube.com]
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:07AM
That socially and emotionally complex dialog, skillful artwork, and deep world crafting is what they're showing their children. Meanwhile western kids get bright colored high contrast flash animations with loud & screeching voices and infantile plots.
The social engineering is beyond obvious.
(Score: 1) by d(++)b on Saturday August 19 2017, @04:52AM (2 children)
Popeye was too fuckin' surreal for me... I'm 55, I remember all the old cartoons. (We called it "Saturday Morning").
Chuck Jones, Yes. Hell Yes. Hanna-Barbera? Uh sure, some of it (dumb kids gotta wake up on weekends too). Felix the Cat? Hey Grandpa, you liked some weird shit!
But Popeye? No. No thank you. Seen 'em all. Popeye=bad acid. baaaaad baddd acid.
I'm a wee bit glad that you young hipster douchebags never experienced the mind-fuck that was Popeye the Sailor.
There's a big difference between Fake News and Surreal News. Let's hope we don't find out about the subtleties in the next few years. (Ahgggh Agh Agh Agh Agh)
(Score: 2) by Geezer on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:56PM
Maybe it was the acid that was bad. Lotta strychnine going around in those days.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:46PM
Felix the cat?
Watch Fritz the cat: dat be sum weeeeird shit dere, man.
Naked pigs and aardvarks and cats, oh my! (No Sulu, though, lol).
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:39PM
You want low grade... Watch the old Spiderman where he swings from the same building frame after frame almost, lol.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:50AM
From one geezer to another: Github is a website that holds source code under revision control. If you ever used RCS, CVS, Subversion, or Mercurial it's a little bit like that.
A "VR fantasy world" is like the old Circarama at Disneyland, except with video instead of film. Also the characters in the video reacts to what you do.
With a waifu, there's no actual fucking, partly because she's imaginary and partly because you respect her too much.
Tongji University and Fudan University are in Shanghai.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:09PM
Same, except 80s and I even watched a bunch of anime back in the 90s. Still completely indecipherable.
I live near CMU, perhaps I can go smack some sense into them.