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Drawing to portrait generator

fotogenerator.npocloud.nl

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Very cool looking, but this could also be titled "The dangers of model overfitting".

From https://www.dekennisvannu.nl/site/artikel/Help-ons-kunstmati... , this generator appears to only know how to render two particular portraits -- one profile, and one head-on, of a single person on a particular background.

All other drawings seem to be rendered as a really poor approximation of those two portraits. Very neat none-the-less.

Even still, you're trying to create data out of "thin air" -- too much information is lost in the "conversion process" to drawing, and trying to recover it is futile. How do I know "Donald Trump"'s hair should be blonde if the only thing I know about "Donald Trump" is from that drawing? How would I know not to make The Donald a brunette or redhead?

If you want to play around with other inputs like I did, you can use curl like so:

    curl 'http://fotogenerator.npocloud.nl/dekennisvannu' --data-binary "@input.png" > output.png

Edit: I tried using a drawing of Donald Trump that I found, done in a similar style: http://imgur.com/a/Mw536

Dear god

Seems to only work if your image is exactly 256x256 pixels? Took some trial and error to get it to send back anything but the text "server error".

That looks like Grandpa Munster with a bad toupee.

*Drawing to human-textured photo generator. That was the most disturbing snow-capped mountain I've even drawn/seen.

Awesome! And, truly horrifying...

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