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Incredible! They finally built a tool to 'Draw the Owl' [1]

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl

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As incredible as it looks this feat has been demonstrated since a few years ago.

IDK why this is being downvoted, it was indeed published two year ago, they just apparently repackaged this as an easier-to-use tool: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07291

Before there was a dense scientific paper. Now they've released an incredibly simple tool that lets anyone draw photorealistic images with simple strokes.

Saying that is repackaging something into an easier-to-use tool seems like quite a stretch. They didn't put a GUI on curl or something.

> They didn't put a GUI on curl or something

I don't think a GUI for curl would be as easy as you imagine. Curl has a lot of power with all the options and protocols it supports.

Isn't this a browser?

https://www.jensroesner.com/wgetgui/wgetgui.png

Here's an image of a wget gui. It's not quite a browser, interesting to look at nonetheless.

Fascinating, yes!

"The future is already here—it's just not very evenly distributed." ~ William Gibson

What a horrible website on mobile.

Don't worry, it's shit on the desktop too.

I hate the "download" button at the top that points to "#something" on the page that centers on an image that fills the whole screen (on a 4k laptop) so that you can't see the real download button below it.