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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.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Friday August 18 2017, @11:00PM (7 children)
Site did not work for me
And it didn't have options for cat, bunny and fox ears.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday August 18 2017, @11:05PM (1 child)
It worked for me when I submitted it. Now it says "Network Error".
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:31PM
It was the Soylent effect. All Three Soylent users crashed the server.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 18 2017, @11:15PM (3 children)
Scratch that, it comes down to allowing javascript on the site. If you do that it will likely work.
True story on the ears though. Maybe they are looking for a grant.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:17AM (1 child)
Reminds me of the good ol' days on Soylentnews, when all everybody did was bitch and moan.
At least we have (somewhat) proper discussions now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:32AM
Except for stupid comments by stupid people.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday August 19 2017, @06:48AM
HTTPS Everywhere broke it for me.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:31PM
Or breast size and pantie color.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @11:27PM (2 children)
Don't need a computer... just a sofa, some wine, and Barry White on the stereo.
(Score: 5, Funny) by wonkey_monkey on Friday August 18 2017, @11:30PM
Yeah, moan about the headache they've suddenly acquired.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday August 18 2017, @11:42PM
You forgot the quaaludes [businessinsider.com].
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(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:09AM (11 children)
Well, feminists, here's who to blame. These are the people you hold accountable. Took me two seconds. Is holding individuals accountable for their own actions really that hard?
How long should I give this until it's part of the misogynerd narrative? 2 weeks? 2 months? Should I start a betting pool?
I admit I don't have the data to gender these people based on name. I can extrapolate from other data sets, even finding a good-sounding motivation for this research, though mostly the data point that men really are stupid enough to publish this shit during a resurgence of the misogynerd narrative. >.<
A pox on both your fucking houses!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:24AM (2 children)
<sarcasm>Nah dude, only heteronormative white males are sexist. This is why I've decided to give my self a chance in the leftist / progressive world by converting to Islam. This way I can beat and rape my wife at will without any mention of patriarchy.</sarcasm>
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:13PM
No, feminists are against Asians too. They have privlidge because they are too smart.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:08AM (4 children)
Huachun is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Uranus
Zhihao is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Uranus
Yingtao is a male name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Sun
Minjun is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Mars
Yanghua is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Mercury
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @05:31AM (2 children)
Those are the family names...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @07:58AM
Doesn't having a unisex family, you know, prevent you from ever being conceived?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @06:19AM
Wrong. And some ignorant fool modded you informative.
Those are Chinese names and the majority (not all) of Chinese family names are single syllable. The odds of all of these being family names are very low.
Even lower odds of all of them being compound family names AND none of them being any of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_compound_surname [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:16PM
You can stick your ruling planet up Uranus.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:44AM (1 child)
Oh gods, I graduated from Stony Brook. Ick, ick, ick. This makes me feel gross and greasy just to read about.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:34AM
Hahahahahaha.
Wait a sec, gotta take it to the next level.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🐙
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(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Monday August 21 2017, @10:38AM
You were about to presume their gender based on name? Words fail me.
(Score: 2) by deimios on Saturday August 19 2017, @03:05AM (1 child)
It is common knowledge that moe exists only in 2D space.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:49PM
There might be a hand-waving 👋 solution to that. For example, just declare VR to be 2D because you are ultimately looking at flat smartphone-sized screen(s). For the neural VR, just say it is moe's graduation to 3D. It could also be possible to simulate an anime style where every frame perceived by the eyes still looks kind of flat. Not sure if that would make the user puke, but that's why we have early adopters.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday August 19 2017, @06:02AM
Would be nice to have in MMOs like WoW:
1. Implement fully on both client side and server side.
2. Have users play around offline with settings and noise file until satisfied with result.
3. Let users upload noise file and settings for reproduction server side.
5. Reproduce on the server from user data. Use the result as the online char portrait.
This way you get decent portrait customization without risking users uploading pornographic content.
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(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Saturday August 19 2017, @08:12AM (6 children)
Someone needs to teach the students about how their predecessors made clever use of the "é" character so English-speakers would have a clue at how to pronounce names/titles like Pokémon without being told "yeah, we're totally spelling it 'Moe' but it's suppose to be pronounced moe-ayyy."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:05AM (3 children)
Cool, now I just have to find it on my keyboard! :)
(I have yet to see anyone write it (ctrl-c, ctrl-v) "Pokémon" in chat/comments/etc.)
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:41PM (2 children)
Let me help you: Pokémon.
Typed without Control-C and Control-V. However I've configured me a compose key, which helps entering ȧ łøţ øḟ şṫṙąņġẽ çħàṙâčṫēṙš.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:00PM (1 child)
Well, I gots me a Japanese keyboard, so I have to insist that Pokemon should be written ポケモン, and moe should be written 萌え :)
Entering non-ASCII character sets should have much better support from the OS, especially when they're not present on a keyboard!
In other news, apparently there is a .moe TLD [wikipedia.org] *facepalm*
"Intended use: The marketing of products or services deemed moe" what the fuck *facedesk*
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Sunday August 20 2017, @03:02AM
On Unix and LInux, that support should be part of X, and not foisted off on the desktop environment.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:48PM
I kinda like that explanation, it makes me imagine the Fonz in a labcoat while telling people about molybdenum.
Which I guess is one step up from the Szyslak mental image the headline gave me
(Score: 1) by nnet on Saturday August 19 2017, @03:37PM
damn, you blew it for me, I was staying with the three stooges' moe.