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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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post #5

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if

It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes.

The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#153
post #59
post #2

Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.

Apart from some lucky places, most of the world cities looks like this or worse.

That is something I've found over the years with traveling.

You watch a bunch of travel videos and think the place you're visiting is going to be so different but its just the same overcast sky and ocean and washed out color palette as home.

Once you remove all the filters, color correction, and drone shots from influencer travel videos a lot of places look the same IRL.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#154
post #18

Used it on some Fortnite screenshots, I'd play that depressing version! https://files.catbox.moe/i8tfkl.jpg https://files.catbox.moe/mw8vbc.jpg Then I thought what would it make from an already dark and grim scene, like HL2 Ravenholm https://files.catbox.moe/d7z77h.jpg but nothing really? Just made the whole thing a different color scheme + changed some architecture

That first scene especially looks like straight out of Fallout 4 but with a better lighting engine.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#155
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.)

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#156
post #9

This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.

It's GenAI. It does something that's kind of like what you asked it to do, but it will skip some details or add other ones or whatever.

Dreary architectural pictures will be more likely to have electrical boxes, poor materials, etc, so when it moves the buildings from the latent space for cheery bright architectural renderings to dreary wet November architectural renderings, it will be more likely to add some of those details, because that's what's in its latent space.

Don't expect GenAI to be magic.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#157
post #5

I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked

The link is blocked by imgur themselves, not the British government (authoritarian or otherwise), because the ICO was going to fine them for historic poor handling of children's data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#158
post #4

That's funny, the second example is the Peace Bridge in Calgary. On a nice day the render actually looks close to the real thing!

The bridge looks much better than the anti-shine version in person (no boxes!), though they replaced the glass due to vandalism.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if

It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes. The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

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?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

#160
I did a similar thing for anti image censorship, back in 2022-2023 with ML, basically all available APIs were returning image classifications that would tell you if something was adult, used in order to not display the image

I wanted something to tell me what was adult about the image, by feature set, in order to display just those images

Worked pretty well, never released/launched it - just needed more capital for the marketing. But then that market cratered - were were going to use the classification attributes on NFTs, since the marketplaces let collectors sort by attributes, so it would have been easy to "find out the market value of particular physical features", and we could have empirical data on what physical attributes people value, instead of just anecdotes

kind of good that we didn't deal with the NFT market in general, project would still work though, just less revenue from sales possible

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