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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

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Post by usrusr »

IgorPartola wrote: post #356
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some see a patina with weathered surfaces as desirable. The beauty of Kintsugi can also be difficult for people to understand. =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU

Patina and rot are very different things.

Not necessarily. On a design that requires being new to look good, all weathering will be perceived as rot, never as patina.

The point is that some approaches to architectural beauty make it more or less impossible that any amount of weathering could ever be perceived as patina, while others look good both new and old.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

lloydatkinson wrote: post #60
b450 wrote: 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

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

Here you go. I had it uploaded after hearing from the magospietato's comment but then saw you talk about the same so I am pasting the same image link here as well

https://files.catbox.moe/c4smhd.png

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by larusso »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #354
larusso wrote: post #349

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I see this as well with huge modern buildings with wood parts. They look great the first year. The wood shines red’ish. After a winter the wood part starts to grey out. I understand that this is sometimes a look they strife for but all the preview renders show it in the prestige condition. Nobody is doing a yearly training. And don’t get me started on all the glass survives for elevators, roofs, bus stops, divider pa…

Some see a patina with weathered surfaces as desirable. The beauty of Kintsugi can also be difficult for people to understand. =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU

The Statue of Liberty would be red without her patina and would look weird ;). I’m not talking about the beauty of weathering. I think a dirty glass roof which no longer lets any light through a planned weathering tactic. The point was that the plans architects make are always showing the building in prestine condition. And they never reflect how this building will look like in a few years. One example I see every day is a Train-station entrance. It has a very dramatic metal ark that stretches up. Looked great in the past. Now you see dirty water running down the surface. The brushed metal is stained with grime that pilled up. Every time it rains the grime runs a bit deeper. They tried to clean it a few month back. They have to come with a special crane and water jets to remove the grime. But nobody takes the time to polish the surface back up. Is this bad? No of course not. But don’t plan and sell something that will only last for half a year. That’s why I also think this post is brilliant.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by clejack »

pfannkuchen wrote: post #264
yetihehe wrote: post #258

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> How do we ensure that we don’t enter the failure mode of “not enough necessities get made”? Pay higher when someone does things. UBI + income. If you want to live better, try doing something that will bring you money, but if you fail, you can still live and try something other next time. Current model: if you try something and fail, you are homeless and starving.

Failing -> homeless and starving is a failure mode at the level of the individual. That’s not good, but failure modes of the entire structure are higher priority and the two don’t really compare apples to apples. Capitalism (absent corruption) is actually sort of cleverly recursive there because financial destitution by definition cannot affect producers of vital goods, because the act of producing vital goods is pre…

"Absent corruption" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your statement. The idea that the system can't fail raises the question what do you consider failure, and what do you consider corruption"

If prices increase and wages don't keep up with them, an increasing number of people become squeezed by their environment. This is a slow event, sure, but enough drops can fill a bucket. The fallout from this pressure on the general populace will be the failure that you're saying can't happen. This seems inevitable without an intervening event to reset things.

With that said, I don't think your concerns are unreasonable, and I'm not sure UBI by itself could solve anything. At a minimum price controls or government administering of food and housing would be necessary to keep prices from rising in response to the influx of cash everyone would receive, but the problem of people not working does seem like a big potential issue.

I believe there have been studies to the contrary, but those studies necessarily miss the universal part of ubi, so they don't have the negative feedback loops that could spring up in a real implementation.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

Joel_Mckay wrote: post #363
Moosdijk wrote: post #360

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Bad bot

You will learn this fact in time. And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3

> You will learn this fact in time.

> And bots are not "good" or "bad", but rather an imperfect mirror of statistically salient nonsense. =3

I think that you are a human and surprised to see you be calm when someone calls you bot because I usually flip out.

If you are a human, I think that one of the things that I am starting to think to do is reply with I am human only after all video.

I am only human after all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3wKzyIN1yk

Or in this case about fishes, we can have the video parody of I am just a fish!

I am just a fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1goAp0XmhZQ

(this last video is a parody-ish but really great music unironically out of the original music being I am just a freak, both music are really great in my opinion unironically haha!)

I am just a fish!

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by spyder »

pibaker wrote: post #126
wateralien wrote: post #110

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.

This will be an unpopular answer but one way that could have worked is just good ol' advertising, because it directly converts "virality" into income. Any solution that requires the user to bust out a credit card and put down his billing address has way too much friction for the median user to get through.

Yea, but most advertisers come only after something went viral, not when you are building something and you try to say to potential advertiser: "this will go viral trust me bro". And such small viral things are usually short lived, by the time the advertisers come it will probably starts to die down. But yea, maybe he would have got a little more financial support than donations even if he puts up ads after it went viral.

Another way he could benefit from this is when people want his skills to build them similar things, so it's basically already an advertisement for his skills.

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

larusso wrote: post #373
Joel_Mckay wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some see a patina with weathered surfaces as desirable. The beauty of Kintsugi can also be difficult for people to understand. =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9LMKGte0UU

The Statue of Liberty would be red without her patina and would look weird ;). I’m not talking about the beauty of weathering. I think a dirty glass roof which no longer lets any light through a planned weathering tactic. The point was that the plans architects make are always showing the building in prestine condition. And they never reflect how this building will look like in a few years. One example I see every da…

The Art Deco architecture of New York city is often lost on many visitors.

Lady liberty is showing her age, but only requires a few people still care. She was always beautiful. =3

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by gk1 »

theendisney wrote: post #143

Im a professional cleaner, there is lots of wonderful looking design out there that is impossible to clean. There is also a huge difference in how quick it looks dirty. Some things are easy to clean but if you have to do it 3 times per day in stead of once a week its going to be needlessly expensive and still look dirty half the time.

What are some striking examples from your experience?

BTW this is what I love most about HN - the surprising variety of people you can learn from, from billionaire founders to expat bingo-card geeks to Georgian-onion sellers to Dutch pro cleaners...

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Sharlin »

HPsquared wrote: post #315
turzmo wrote: post #230

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Love how the sign "Ulitsa" changes into something unintelligible but keeps different cyrillic characters.

Diffusion models struggle with text.

Less and less these days, at least if the text is in Latin letters.
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