Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
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Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
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#2Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172603
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#3Trajan and Augustus rather look the same. Also I wonder if this would expand to include Constantine and beyond?
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#4I really want to believe that that's what Nero looked like. I'm pretty sure he tried to get me to prop him up for a keg stand at a college party.
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#5I really want to believe that that's what Nero looked like. I'm pretty sure he tried to get me to prop him up for a keg stand at a college party.
Augustus looks likes Daniel Craig, a bit.
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#6Ah, so that's the what Zuck Cut is trying to reference.
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#7This is awesome. While listening to The History of Rome podcast, I went to Wikipedia to see whatever type of media there’s to see how the people looked like. For the old times, it’s of course statues, and sometimes only coins. For the late emperors there are paintings too, but fairly unrealistic.
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#8Is it a coincidence George Clooney's face looks the same as a lot of those renders?
Now I wonder if this has to do with the learning set or that those face types are very common.
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#9Is it a coincidence George Clooney's face looks the same as a lot of those renders? Now I wonder if this has to do with the learning set or that those face types are very common.
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#10Is it a coincidence George Clooney's face looks the same as a lot of those renders? Now I wonder if this has to do with the learning set or that those face types are very common.
I do always wonder what the basis of such machine learning rendering is. There's various traits that we, in modern times, associate with good-looking, successful people, and those traits often come back in face databases because those are commonly based on celebrities.
I can imagine that celebrities in Roman times would look quite different and therefore would produce completely different renders for the same pictures and statues.