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Re: The Free Movie

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Post by uyfyxr8 »

jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

Such cool inputs to the product. Are you a product manager in the drawing app like Photoshop or Procreate?

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by tomrod »

koolba wrote: post #46
civilitty wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be surprised if 2-4% of the total fr…

> Are there any YC startups specializing in detecting penises? I’m sure Reddit had developed, tested, and perfected this technology. I mean what the hell else have they been working on for the past 18 years?

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Re: The Free Movie

#54

Post by SanderNL »

bbstats wrote: post #44
jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

These are not problems.

I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by thrashh »

crazygringo wrote: post #17
atulvi wrote: post #15

Poor execution, but great idea. Give users random frames. Obtain multiple drawings for each frame. average and reject frames that are too different from the average. voila!

I can't even begin to guess how you would numerically average or compare hairline drawings. If they were fully shaded frames it would work, but hairlines I have no idea. Also I observed that some frames left a dark background white, and others filled in a dark background as black. So you'd have to set up a lot of drawing "rules" to ensure it was even conceptually meaningful to generate an average in the first place.

Show the voter 4 drawings.

They pick the worst one.

Throw in a control once in a awhile.

Eventually you’ll have a sorted list of the best to the worst frames. Have the worst ones redrawn.

However, if you let it run too long, you might get a Pixar film.

Fun alternative: show artists the best images. Eventually it will be gamed and it will become the Bee Penis film.

Re: The Free Movie

#56

Post by simultsop »

SanderNL wrote: post #54
bbstats wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are not problems.

I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?

I guess penises do not belong to the movie being drawn.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by e1ghtSpace »

Interesting idea but they should have used multiple drawings per frame and overlayed them to get rid of trash frames.

Anyway, if anyone wants to see a Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon movie that functions as a projector for the album, I edited this together and you guys may be into it: https://odysee.com/DSOPiQ I added an intro and some other stuff to mess with you but it can effect the projection substantially so if you want to skip it, go straight to 7:34 (don't go less than that otherwise you might get something)

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by ramesh31 »

bbstats wrote: post #44
jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

These are not problems.

Yeah I mean the whole thing could be done with an ffmpeg one-liner if that was the goal, but emergent web phenomena like this are rare and few between. Reminds me of the million dollar homepage.

Re: The Free Movie

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Post by sigg3 »

Conscat wrote: post #50
jacurtis wrote: post #26

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

From now on I'm calling this Jacurtis' Law

2-4% of unreviewed content shall be phallic..?
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