Redditor creates working anime QR codes using Stable Diffusion
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I seem to remember some NY artist trying to sort of vaguely claim/intimate invention (falsely) by having an exhibition too. Ah yes, here https://art-qrcode.com/
Vibrators. Hitachi is also known for their powerful, corded vibrators (it's not a dirty word): the Magic Wand.
Calling these 'marital aids' in 2023 seems a little outdated. Vibrators are devices used for sexual stimulation, which obviously makes them extremely useful for solo masturbation as well, in addition to being a sex toy someone can use on another person.
All magic wands are amazing (not just the hitachi ones, but try to find a decent brand like hitachi, bedgeek). Trust me guys, they're so good in many spots; treat yourself!
Relatedly, my favorite Japanese product line enigma remains Yamaha realizing that all the finely specialized industrial equipment for building organs and pianos could probably be multi-tasked to making motorcycles.
I think the mainland Chinese are more inclined to 2D code by the interactions with them in the past.
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/2007/09/the-swastika-build...
1. Secretly repaint one wall of a house and redirect the qr code to a slightly different url
2. ???
3. ProfitThe issue with artsy QR codes often isn't the individual bit flips, but that they often include large areas of all black or all white which can make it harder for the reader to pick up the actually correct bits if the viewing angle and lighting aren't perfect. The standard includes 8 mask patterns that you can freely choose from, the intention being that you pick the one which gives most black/white variation in the final result, so there is as few low-contrast areas as possible. With improvements in cameras and processing built into QR scanners these days this is becoming less of a concern, but if you need your code to be reliably readable by older devices, probably stay away from the fancy tricks.
The fancy tricks are cool though, worth all the caveats if they match your stylistic needs.
From the title I was expecting the QR codes to move, but they're actually "anime drawing style", not "anime"
I've never been sure if the only difference between the two is still frames vs motion, or something else.
It's not pedantry. I'm trying to convey some actual understanding here. These drawings aren't manga-style, you can tell because they don't look like (typical) drawings from manga; most obviously in that they're not black and white.
> Manga is most often black and white purely because of time and budget constraints
True but irrelevant. The style of the medium coevolved with those constraints and is suited towards them (as with most media). A manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.
> There are tons of full-color manga, and many that become popular have color editions released.
They exist (indeed I own some) but they are the exception rather than the rule. Again, "manga-style drawing" would be generally understood to mean a drawing that looked like a typical drawing from a manga.
Generally understood by who though?
I see your point about what you said about the colours
> manga-style drawing is stylised in particular ways that (among other things) allow it to look better in black and white than a typical drawing would.
In particular I agree that the black and white manga drawing uses special techniques to look good in black and white. Such as notably the half-tone patterns that they use.
But I think you are placing more weight on this particular thing than perhaps most people do.
There are many defining features of manga aside from the lack of colour.
I guess to determine whether or not it is generally agreed that it must be black and white, we’d have to interview a bunch of people about what style some images were, and see if an overwhelming majority thought that colour mattered or not :p
Or, less thoroughly we might just ask the denizens of the 4chan /a/ board. They probably have some strong opinions about what counts as manga or not.
アニメーション - a-ni-me-ee-ts(u)-yo-n
Just means long e "me". It could be written more like:
anime-tsyon (dash indicating long vowel). Or: a-ni-me-e-ts(u)-yo-n.
That being said, I like how the triple vowel makes it clear it's not the same sound as in say meet. (This gives me the idea to change my name to tuuukkkah...)
ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu.
So the proper romanisation is something like 'animeeshon'. That said, romanisation is often done inconsistently, e.g. Osaka vs. oosaka.
Of course - I'm a little rusty and sometimes confuse シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) - even when obvious from context :/
Just sounds like how a japanese would write animation
There’s “moving images” (動画), but that’s used for video in general, not specific to animation
These mostly start with real-world images and then are fine-tuned with Chinese/Japanese commercial illustrator art, which isn't anime (flat-colored TV episode screenshots) or manga (monochrome halftoned comic book pages).
The result is like 15% photorealistic shaded, so it's not a lot like anything else out there.
Can you expand on this? Why not?
Given the description of the apparent technique, its likely trivial to extend it to animated QR codes using the same ControlNet models and ControlNet inputs and existing techniques of animating travel through prompt and/or seed space for StableDiffusion.
notably they also implemented the "Halftone"[2] style.
[1] https://github.com/ciaochaos/qrbtf
[2] http://vecg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/Projects/SmartGeometry/halftone_QR/...
A few months ago, after seeing that ChatGPT could produce reasonably accurate MD5 hashes, I tried generating QR codes with a Midjourney prompt. It failed in a really interesting way - it generated _symmetric_ QR codes, even though QR codes are explicitly designed to be asymmetric (think of the timing pattern, the three large blocks). So while I could claim ChatGPT "understood" MD5 hashes, I can't claim that Midjourney "understands" QR codes.
How long until generative models can produce working QR codes on their own?
Like hiding malicious URLs in public.
For a few years now phone cameras have been able to automatically detect QR codes, maybe their next feature will be an option to turn off "smart features"...
Edit: Ok, it does work at a larger distance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/141hg9x/co...
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143qz65/my...
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143w30f/th...
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/143u5x6/my...
It found the face, it found the text on the page, it highlighted sections in case I wanted to copy the image/text, but no QR response.