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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: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 19 2017, @03:07AM
Is that how it works now? Maybe my knowledge really is out of date. I remember there used to be quite a lot of anger among feminists about Islam, particularly about how it's culturally comorbid with routine infant female genital mutilation. Heh, I used to be with them, until I figured out that what happened to me was perhaps worse but that feminists would systematically shut down any dialogue about routine infant male genital mutilation with “OMG Mooooooooslims!” How things change.
Either that or I can go with my previous data point about men really being that stupid and guess you're a man and you've even less an idea what you're talking about than I do.
I haven't bashed men in a while. This feels kinda good. If you men weren't such fucking idiots, I wouldn't run into nearly half the problems I do with feminists. maybe none at all. After all, everything I end up getting held accountable for in that collectively and severally way is something one of you dumbassed men did.