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Re: Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

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What a clever idea! By the way, there are over 400,000 naturally occurring species of beetles. Beetles make up 25% of all animal forms according to Wikipedia.

Humans: by mass, a very insignificant species.

Not among land mammals: https://xkcd.com/1338/

Re: Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of video game art: every game has two sets of art, the “real” art which is part of the mechanics of the game world, and the “pretty bits” which dangle off the game objects and try to trick you into believing there’s more to the game world than there is. A lot of gameplay involves testing for this boundary... Trying to figure out whether you can actually do things that are implied by the art. Are there any…

Minecraft?

There are e.g. particle effects which don't (afaiu) influence anything else in the game, and are just visual.

Also, the clouds.

Re: Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

-> https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com All of the dynamic content on each listing is generated via a series of different machine-learned AI models.

"The laundry are converted into a mini central heating for every guest."

“there will be a BREAKFAST Walk into the block in the room”

Re: Show HN: A beetle generator made by machine-learning zoological illustrations

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Excellent. I did something similar a few months ago using a dataset of zoological silhouettes, resulting in a menagerie of mammals, bugs, spiders and other mutant wonders. https://twitter.com/cortesi/status/1153075801891278848 https://twitter.com/cortesi/status/1153088629972934656

nice results! could be interesting to see another network naming the mutant creatures :)
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