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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by Analemma_ »

fnord77 wrote: post #406
usrusr wrote: post #327

Pretty much what has long been my dream "make the world better" product (long as in from pre-genAI days), only that this one happens in image space: take an architectural model, look at the surface material specifications, analyze it for where rainwater would run down etc and generate weathering texture, how would this look when it's not new anymore. Because as I see it, a lot of aesthetic decisions in architecture,…

this is what gets me about brutalism. Concrete looks nice when brand new, but a few years of acid rain makes it look like dog shit

You can do regular maintenance on concrete to keep it looking nice, but nobody wants to spend the money. Everyone understands that a wooden house exterior has to be repainted now and then, but thinks "concrete = no upkeep costs". Architects have complained bitterly about this for a while; I don't love brutalism but I can sort of see their point.

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saagarjha wrote: post #279
pfannkuchen wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> financial destitution by definition cannot affect producers of vital goods This is why people who work critical jobs never go hungry.

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Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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spyder wrote: post #376
pibaker wrote: post #126

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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 v…

This is such a weird comment. Not all advertisement follows the influencer model. Banner ads have been funding small internet operations since before hacker news existed. Do we really don't have long term memories at all?

Re: Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

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Post by mxfh »

yawnxyz wrote: 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!

That's literally thw worst pic I can find of that bridge and it's still looks good even with the temporary fences: https://www.flickr.com/photos/zawaski/52752097083/

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Post by _annum »

materialpoint wrote: post #285

This should be compulsory for pitching architects and entrepreneurs. Prove that your design can withstand real weather and the washed out decay of time. Classical architecture withstands weathering and littering remarkably better. Architects are even using corrugated steel sheets intended for ugly shacks as the fascade of new buildings intended for people to live in. It couldn't be worse.

If corrugated metal were not associated with shacks, would it be so concerning? Most materials can look good with the right execution. The difference comes from form and detailing.

"Classical" architecture is (thankfully) dead and will never return. It's too costly and we lack the skilled labour force required. For those that nonetheless demand it, we get cheap imitations of classical details that look worse than a simpler but well-considered alternative.

There have been some promising advances in automated machine carving of stone, but it's still expensive. It has a bright future as part of a hybrid aesthetic enabled by contemporary technology. We need to look forward and not back.

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Post by brainwad »

Timwi wrote: post #172
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.

> Is there a better way? Yes, UBI. Then you can create what you want and your livelihood doesn't depend on it going viral.

People already freak out about the sustainability of the welfare state supporting just the elderly with worker-dependent ratios of 3:1 or 2:1. Imagine if also all the working age population got welfare, it'd be completely unworkable.

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Post by jzymbaluk »

liamwire wrote: post #325
wiseowise wrote: post #282

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Looks even worse in the sun. At least it belongs in the depressing, shitty weather.

What's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?

I think they're saying that brutalist architecture feels out of context in Brisbane's weather, whereas the gloomy dreary feeling of the building fits in perfectly in the former USSR's gloom

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Post by Cyphase »

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.

I don't know the terms, but there's what looks like a tasteful ad at the bottom.

> Looking for an architect who builds things that still look great even in November rain? Reach out to classical architect Jorian Egge.

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