I was quite disturbed by the fact that the monkey in the picture was chained up. I believe no living creature should be chained up.
1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
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Re: 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
#52I've always admired these sorts of illustrations. Botanical ones too. Please forgive the newb questions, but does this gorgeous illustration style have a name and how was it done (I.e., what is the medium -- some kind of colored ink?)
"The plates were originally engraved in steel to ensure fine lines before being hand-colored on the small prints which measured only approximately 4 × 6 inches...
Once the black-and-white images were printed, they were passed to teams of colorists who applied watercolors by hand."
Re: 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
#53Wow, why haven't LLMs been trained on the content of this site instead of Reddit and other less reliable/litigious sources?
how do you know they haven't?
The majority of the LLM training corpora comes from Common Crawl and social media - they're not a curated source like Open Culture.
Re: 1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
#54My man ( https://www.c82.net/images/naturalists-library/vol-4/plates/... ) is having a bad day.
Constipation after eating too much red meat?