1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
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#2Source posted some days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850978 and blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850987
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#3Soon to be ingested for AI training.
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#4Can someone build a classifier that will tell is which of these images was drawn with a living, dead, or (charitably) dissected specimen?
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#5Unclear from the text: Was AI used in modifying or filling any images in the restoration process?
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#6Unclear from the text: Was AI used in modifying or filling any images in the restoration process?
> Not only did AI tools then help him unearth needed sources and fill in visual gaps
I think that's clear
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#7Unclear from the text: Was AI used in modifying or filling any images in the restoration process?
> Not only did AI tools then help him unearth needed sources and fill in visual gaps I think that's clear
I took that to mean filling in the gaps on the source data, not literally filling in pen and ink gaps in the drawing. If so, that's a shame. It pollutes the original and isn't what counts as restoration.
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#8Remember when it was totally controversial that Ted Turner intended to colorize classic films such as Casablanca, and how technology was going to ruin artistry in this way? Good times.
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#10Unclear from the text: Was AI used in modifying or filling any images in the restoration process?
More at https://www.c82.net/blog/making-of-naturalists-library, you can see that the source material was actually in pretty good condition, just aged and yellowed; they used Photoshop's AI to stitch drawings that were spread out over two pages together. And probably some upscaling.