That picture with the weeding, the sunset, the sailboat and the birds is so unnatrual that it makes my soul twist.
ah, nothing better than a bit of weeding at sunset
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#42Hey, this is the technology from Wag The Dog.
De Niros character is a Hollywood producer, hired to produce a fake war in Albania to distract from a sex scandal before an election. At one point, he's directing news footage by shouting something like "there's a girl in front of a village, it's on fire .. hmm, no, more smoke.. her hair is too light. Can she have a cat? Show me cats" while having a technician type in the request and watching the result appear in real time.
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#43Gotta love the random deer in picture 5.
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#44If this could be extended to movies, the possibilities would be awesome. Just write a script for a movie, sketch out the different scenes and voila, a ready made rough of your new romantic comedy!
The program could be extended further to recycle old movies, and to replace the actors heads with new one.
I have to start writing a business plan for this right away. Please send me a message if you want to join in on this.
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#45Sigh...third time today and I only got one karma point for pointing it first. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862216 if you feel sympathetic :) EDIT: gee guys, the smiley should tell you this ^ is not a serious complaint. I thought people might actually be interested in reading the actual paper v, since project page link has been inaccessible. Sheesh. Site is down but this is the Siggraph paper: http://www.ece.nu…
This guy got downvoted for giving the most informative comment in this thread?
Well, I think he got his karma back now. But yeah, the way some people downvote gives me a funny feeling.
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#46The probability of mis-matched images seems like it would be incredibly high, but if they manage to pull this off, it would be amazing. However, I wonder about this technology being used for evil (custom porn). =/
probability of mis-matched images seems like it would be incredibly high
This innovation seems to be a shortcut mechanism based on pictographic gestures, where they also take the position, relative size into account. This is very nifty.
I cannot see how this would be faster than traditional Illustrator/Indesign workflows of selecting the elements from dropdowns, dragging to correct location and dragging the handles. If you use their sketching method, you are probably going to have to fall back to 2D drag'n'size methods post generation
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, custom porn is evil? I guess I'm the only one who's tired of all this cookie-cutter porn.
So glad the downvote maxes at -4 |-----------|....................................... |..............|Bear................................... |..............|.........|-------------|............... |..............|.........|-------------|Fish........... |-----------|................................|--------| ....................................Yo Mom|--------|
Box for 'Yo Mom' needs to be bigger! ;)
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#48I'm having a very hard time believing that this is real. If it is, they have just made breakthroughs in multiple domains in computer graphics, recognition, and composition at the same time. Here's hoping it's real.
This is one of those SIGGRAPH papers that are like magic tricks -- unbelievable until you find out how they're done and what their limitations are.
There are existing projects that pair an image composition function with a tagged image database (like this one: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/photoclipart/). This project sounds like it adds a fitness function so that it can find an output image that looks good.
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#49I don't get how this is going to replace photoshop.
The images will not look as good, or as clean as a regular photoshopped image, I doubt that automated image editing is that advanced right now.
The examples they gave, is probably the best that was available, I bet on average, the results don't look nearly as good or clean.
But hey, I could be wrong.
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#50If this is for real, then why can't the same thing be done for music? Drum a beat, whistle a tune, sing a few notes - and let the software extract best-matching samples from a library of millions of songs.