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Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

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I could dedicate a month, or a year, and never come up with something like those. Are they really using the site tool, or is there a trick to draw them elsewhere and import them? Those are truly amazing!

If you have a tablet and some artistic background, these are all definitely doable. Doing those with a mouse would be a lot harder.

I like to draw with a mouse. Just takes practice, like anything.

Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

#152

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Yeah, there’s two rules that define the internet: 1. 95% of people will not be trying to draw penises 2. 5% penises by volume is a lot of penises

By volume, yes, but by mass, it's a pretty reasonable load

Perfectly average, I’d say

Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

#153

https://imgur.com/a/Vtoxc7p 35% for this masterpiece? Rigged

My guess is the CNN was trained on highly abstracted stereotypical-fish-drawings, not on actual pictures or high-quality drawings of fish. I put in my best effort to draw a good-looking fish (although I'm no artist) and I got 35%. Then I drew a basic single-stroke fish and got 65%.

Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

#158

The leaderboard is fascinating. Some people are clearly putting a lot of time into this, while the rest of us are trying to sneak phallic shapes past your CNN. 1. https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753510318634_cdeh6a4...

I am literally trying my best to draw a fish only to be told it is only 30% likely to be a fish. Cruel.

Also make sure you’re filling up the canvas — don’t draw something too small.

Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

#159

The leaderboard is fascinating. Some people are clearly putting a lot of time into this, while the rest of us are trying to sneak phallic shapes past your CNN. 1. https://drawafish.com/rank.html?userId=1753510318634_cdeh6a4...

I could dedicate a month, or a year, and never come up with something like those. Are they really using the site tool, or is there a trick to draw them elsewhere and import them? Those are truly amazing!

It would be hilarious if that guy vibe coded a thing that’s just repeatedly googling images of real fish and then slavishly drawing them into the site.

Re: Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others

#160

Somewhat interesting thing with my 9yo. She's a pretty good artist, she can draw various characters and objects pretty well. With this she clearly just wanted to do the standard stick fish shape, but it turns out she only knows how to do it facing left. Facing left, looks typical, facing right, almost a figure 8. So after like 6 attempts being judged by the computer she's getting frustrated, and I'm like how about th…

You're right, that IS interesting. Something about having to learn with rigid constraints first before you can generalize the knowledge, I guess.

I think she learned to do the fish the way kids learn to draw a star. It's a motion they learn to do, and she wanted to do that simple motion. She's good at knowing a shape she wants to make and drawing it but I think knowing a gesture she wants to make is different.

And then I think when she consciously thinks about it - trying to do it the opposite way, or later the normal way after being judged repeatedly - she can't make the motion that way. But I bet if she was just thinking of the shape and trying to draw that shape it would be zero issue.

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