This is such a cool concept. props to you for building it.
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#102Very impressive result! are you taking requests for the next ones? SF :D Tokyo :D Paris :D Milan :D Rome :D Sydney :D Oh man...
Really would love to see Tokyo, Kyoto, or Sydney.
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#103While impressive on a technical level, I can't help but notice that it just looks...bad? Just a strange blurry mess that only vaguely smells of pixelart.
Makes me feel insane that we're passing this off as art now.
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#104Absolutely love this! Yay robots!
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious why you didn't do something like generate new tiles one at a time, but just expand the input area on the sides with already-generated neighbors. Looks like your infill model doesn't really care about tile sizes, and I doubt it really needs full adjacent tiles to match style. Why 2x2 tile inputs rather than say... generate new tiles one at a time, but add 50px of bordering tile on each side that already ha…
Yeah I actually did that quite a bit too. I didn't want to get too bogged down in the nitty gritty of the tiling algorithm because it's actually quite difficult to communicate via writing (which probably contributed to it being hard to get AI to implement). The issue is that the overall style was not consistent from tile to tile, so you'd see some drift, particularly in the color - and you can see it in quite a few p…
Oh that makes sense, thanks for explaining! And thanks for sharing your process and result! Interesting to see your process, and looking at the map really tickles my nostalgia
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#106I was extremely excited until I looked closer and realized how many of these look like ... well AI. The article is such a good read and would recommend people check it out. Feels like something is missing... maybe just a pixelation effect over the actual result? Seems like a lot of the images also lack continuity (something they go over in the article) Overall, such a cool usage of AI that blends Art and AI well.
Basically, it's not pixel art at all. It's very cool and I don't mind the use of AI at all but I think calling it pixel art is just very misleading. It's closer to a filter but not quite that either.
Yup, not pixel art. I wonder if people are not zooming in on it properly? If you zoom in max you see how much strangeness there is.
It kind of looks like a Google Sketchup render that someone then went and used the Photoshop Clone and Patch tools on in arbitrary ways.
Doesn’t really look anything like pixel art at all. Because it isn’t.
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#107Does anyone remember a Chinese website that did something similar? IIRC it was one of the selectable rendering modes of a Google Maps equivalent.
Edit: this submission has a few links that could be what I had in mind but most of them no longer work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282466
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#108reticulating splines
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#109Hey, engineer at Oxen.ai here. Glad the fine-tuning worked well for this project! If anyone has questions on that part of it we would be happy to answer.
We have a blog post on a similar workflow here: https://www.oxen.ai/blog/how-we-cut-inference-costs-from-46k...
On the inference cost and speed: we're actively working on that and have a pretty massive upgrade there coming soon.
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#110Looks badly AI generated.