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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#171

This would be useful if it actually did some reasoning about the effects of aging on different materials, consequences of certain design decisions, etc. It's not doing that at all, and so it's just misleading instead. If you actually built these things and took pictures years later it wouldn't look like this. Some things would look better and some would look worse. So you can't use this to make decisions about what t…

You do to fun what this website does to pictures.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#172

Top of HN and people are loving it, but there's got to be a better way of getting some $$ rewards for fun viral ideas like this than "Buy me a coffee". I'm betting he's got tens of thousands of sessions currently and nobody is tipping. https://ko-fi.com/magnushambleton Is there a better way? Asking for myself, also.

> Is there a better way?

Yes, UBI. Then you can create what you want and your livelihood doesn't depend on it going viral.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#173

This reminds me of “emo” music. All the emotions except happiness. These renders are depressing.

Huh. I kinda like 'em. I've spent a good deal of time loitering in areas like this, of my own volition. Unsurprisingly, I tend to like emo music too. Maybe I'm a salmon, happiest fighting against the current.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#174
post #121

I imagine, it could actually be useful for architects, to see how other people and environment will butcher their creation, so they could learn how to make it better with that in mind. Edit: oh, it's right there at the bottom of the page!

Seems fairly simple to me: stop with the naked concrete and brutalist architecture. Old houses before that trend tend to look way nicer regardless of weather. (I'm not an expert on exact architectural style names, so I can't be more exact that that.)

Architects aren't generally brutalists themselves, but rather, brutalist architecture proposals win contracts because their TCO is lower. Facades have maintenance costs; bare concrete just requires power-washing now and then.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That doesn't pass the sniff test, many other pages on knowyourmeme correctly attribute memes to 4chan. If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? Maybe you're getting tricked by the fact that 2018 was 8 years ago?

> If you were right that would be easily verifiable. Do you have an example of a post dated before 2018? How?

Link to a message on one of the many historical archives of 4chan?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just Moscow

OK this is too fun. I did Reverse Anti-Render on a dreary scene in Moscow: https://imgur.com/a/mqMEPUl

That almost looks like a scene from half-life 2
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