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Unusual Suspects

neal.fun

213 pointsbeeperboy9530 comments

This game is hilarious. I love the reveal, how my poor, horribly drawn, mobile touch-based drawing compares to the actual person; the juxtaposition was really funny.

I kinda wish I could see other people’s drawings.

Turns out Mr. Peanut looks more like the horriblye love child of a jar of mustard and a ninja turtle when I draw him.

I drew a wasp and still managed to catch him.

You might enjoy Telestrations. It's like telephone but: A person starts with a prompt, another draws it, another interprets the drawing into a prompt, another draws it, etc.

Your wish: https://imgur.com/a/czS1o1e [SPOILER ALERT]

I wonder where the scores come from -- is it AI or a basic image match?

Also, somewhat prior art (literally):

https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/

probably a CLIP. i've used it recently to build a search engine for google street view.

just create an embedding of your drawing, then an embedding of the actual suspect. and check the distance. if it's around 5-10 drawings you know are similar - then it's a match. if not then not. embedings of matched drawings can also be used to adjust how close the drawing has to be to the image.

Wouldn't that work if you already know what to search for? Wouldn't all drawings for streets or overview maps looks very simillar to the point where false positives will be unavoidable?

Warning: autoplays audio. Loud.

I don't have audio on this PC so I cant hear anything but the drawing tool lags massively in FF on Linux. Like a few seconds if I move the cursor very fast.

Ive always wondered if I sat down with a sketch artist and was asked to describe my wife, how close we would get.

Note that in a drawing like this, accuracy is not always required.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/worst-poli...

All I see is dialogs getting in the way. The last one loops back to the first, I can't get out of that.

Don’t you see the Done button?

That was said to be pressed when I finished drawing.

210 partners want to track me as I use this, and I can’t decline in one click. Why is that necessary?

Huh. I thought neal.fun was above that kind of thing, to the extent that I was about to write a comment saying you might have malware. But I just disabled my browser extensions to double check, and I see it too.

I associate neal.fun with that Google popup since I've never seen it anywhere else. It has been there since Infinite Craft at least and I've always wondered what the deal is. It even says "Managed by Google. Complies with IAB TCF. CMP ID: 300" at the bottom of his home page.

I can understand if he needs a way to fund it but seems overly explicit if it's just for running some ads.

Use Firefox with uBlock Origin? I see only two: google and plausible.io -- both are blocked.

Try Brave.

Would be good to see witnesses description text after the case reveal. E.g. I kinda remember text says "black eyebrows" but the image clearly shows white eyebrows, would be cool to review.

The criteria for accuracy is a bit mysterious to me, I drew Cinnamoroll instead of this "Pillsbury Doughboy" that I never heard about but still got 88% score.

I'm not very inclined towards drawing, I had more fun trying to guess the characters based on the descriptions than actually drawing them

That was incredibly fun, although challenging on a smartphone. If you can guess the character it's a lot easier (100%, 99%, 96%, 85%), but even with ones I couldn't guess, it gave a reasonable score (Hollow Knight: 74%, Steve Harvey: 84%, Sirenhead: 69%) for following the directions.

Please don't spoil answers for other people

I wasn't aware that the number of cases was so small that it might spoil for others. I see now, trying it on a desktop, that there are just 68 cases at present; there isn't an indication of that on the mobile version.

Moreover, I cannot edit my previous comment.

I can't wait to see how actual artists do with this game.

probably training some AI.

FYI you can draw lines and triangles with multi-touch

The game draws me in without me even realizing it, and I get completely absorbed in it

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