Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time • Hacker News Board

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by chrisa » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:09 PM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #39

Stupid question - if I wanted to import those into an iPad app and colour them there(using an Apple Pencil or similar) - what would be the best way to do that?

I just tried it with Procreate - the files are PDFs, so they can't be brought into procreate like that, so I had to download on my desktop, convert the PDF to an image, then transfer it to the ipad and insert it into Procreate that way.

Hope that helps!

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by chrisa » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:12 PM UTC

pjs_ wrote: post #10

I'd love to see a GAN coloring book generator.

I've worked on this a bit! It turns out to be quite difficult (at least it was for me)

One of the big problems is that GANs can't generate files at a high enough resolution to make great coloring pages.

I then tried to make a neural network that would generate SVGs directly, which turns out to be really tricky too.

One thing that might work is to generate low resolution pages with a GAN, and then use an image to svg converter to make high resolution versions... maybe I'll try that next :)

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by ishi » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC

joking wrote: post #36

zwounds wrote: post #33

It would be remiss of me not to mention https://www.crayola.com/featured/free-coloring-pages/

it makes perfect sense for a company that sells crayons to publish free coloring pages.

Create a need and fill it

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by wpietri » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

Another good source is Color Our Collections, where 100+ museums dig into their archives to find things that make for good coloring: http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by StavrosK » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:39 PM UTC

It's not working for me. I click the A4 PDF on the Monster Mash page and it takes me to a fullscreen Dopplr ad that I can't do anything on other than sign up for Dopplr.

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by robbiejs » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

puranjay wrote: post #22

I love this site. On mobile, its such a pleasant experience to use it. It's clear what the site is about and where to get what you want. From the fonts to the padding, everything seems to fit. A great case study in form + function.

I agree, beautiful website. I'm viewing it on a desktop, and it's the first thing I thought.

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by fenwick67 » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

It's interesting to me that someone made a website this complete and an instagram page for a total of... 4 coloring book pages?

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by jerf » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 2:28 PM UTC

pjs_ wrote: post #10

I'd love to see a GAN coloring book generator.

Almost anything you could want from a GAN coloring book generator can be found on Google/DDG image search with "coloring page $NOUN". I mean, you can find almost anything that way: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+coloring+page&t=ha&ia=image... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slug+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=images... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bed+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=images&... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=teleport+coloring+page&t=ha&iar=im...

To save parsing the links, that's "hacker", "slug", "bed", and "teleport", all of which have perfectly reasonable hits.

I literally can't think of a halfway plausible coloring page that isn't covered that way. (Kinda thought I'd win that on "teleport", but... yeah, nope. Slim pickings at one result, sure, but that's still one reasonable result!)

Of course, you're pretty much writing off copyright laws in the process. How much that bothers you is up to you.

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by steve_adams_86 » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

mobilemidget wrote: post #30

been colouring with crayons a lot more since quarantine, daughter loves it, so I'm happy. And just one 'wall/crayon' incident... took me a good 20 minutes of cleaning :) bought 500 sheets of A3, people luckily not buying that yet to wipe their asses :)

I find melamine foam, like Mr Clean magic erasers, makes removing assorted drawing implements from walls a lot easier. It'll even remove pen and pencil. I add a little soap and just scrub away, rinsing frequently.

You have to be careful because it's an abrasive and some wall surfaces might not like it. It seems fine on the paints I've cleaned, though.

Re: Grab your crayons, it’s coloring time

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Post by mackenziechild » Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 3:12 PM UTC

fenwick67 wrote: post #47

It's interesting to me that someone made a website this complete and an instagram page for a total of... 4 coloring book pages?

Hah yeah my intention was to create a lot more, and maybe have some other artists contribute some... But never got around to it unfortunately.