If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.
Ugh, this looks way too real...
Looks like Machinarium. I like it.
What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!
I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.
Yeah, it's really a masterpiece. It's utterly fantastic.
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Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.
Apart from some lucky places, most of the world cities looks like this or worse.
Excellent idea. So many modern buildings age so poorly. Maybe this will give some starchitecs a bit of a pause...
This is ingenious and actually useful. I'm looking for a new apartment and I always wanted to know how do these places look in a bad weather, because that's when I need beautiful surroundings the most.
Unfortunately, it doesn't actually tell you that information: it just turns a dial. What you want is to know how much that dial would be turned by bad weather.
As long as it's not changing the form of the buildings, it seems valid. Although, the first two examples both add random telecom cabinets in places that don't make much sense.
I figure that’s an architectural in-joke. The engineers will add ugly stuff because you didn’t consider stuff like HVAC or electricity.
It's infinitely better than nothing.
Fortunately, you have one of the world's most powerful supercomputers sitting between your ears, so we don't need to compare this to nothing.
This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...
It's not a filter, it's an image editing model
This drink is not a smoothie, it is a blend of fruits and berries.
In my mind "filter" is some specific algorithm that does a single expected transformation
"Filter" is a Tik-tok / snapchat / instagram parlance for any kind of overlay / transformation. It's grown larger than just sepia filters and similar. All the ones that do facial tracking and overlay a mustache or w/e is funny in the moment are also referred to as filters.
There's a pretty clear expected transformation here though? It takes an image and then reduces the "shiny-ness" of it by giving it the same transformation: change the sky to overcast, add material degradation like rust, reduce the landscaping by adding weeds/puddles, and remove the happy looking people.
Also adding random electrical infrastructure and random signs, also removing a statue in the distance in one of the images
Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.
It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.
How is it not just a midjourney prompt? The liberties it takes seem to be better described by 'upload a picture, and AI will be told to make it dingier'. Can't people already do that ad nauseam?
Au contraire, in a rather realistic way
What is it with people?
Is there some weird force dropping electrical enclosures on bridges (the cables on top even?) and random places in the street.
Those random protruding manholes next to two other drainage gates nowhere near a slope?
Why are these even the examples.
This is just like turning the HDR tone mapping up to 200%
It's not that bad actually. Over the years stuff like electrical installations, cables and random manholes often get retrofitted in an ugly way to existing architecture.
I was actually going to comment on the main post, how well tuned the AI seems with it's placement of random electrical wires and junction boxes that seem to match my impression of renderings-vs-reality.
I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.
Getting a 402 error payment required when I try to run this, I'm guessing all of the credits for the API account have been used up. Great idea though!
It's some Loveable app thing. Fun idea though
Used it on some Fortnite screenshots, I'd play that depressing version!
but nothing really? Just made the whole thing a different color scheme + changed some architecture
Halfway to The Last of Us conversion for Fortnite
Sandy Strip is a low rent strip club right? Based on the name and logo it can't be anything else... Anyhow, that looks like GTA to me.
They stole the ravenholm sign
It really tied the place together.
I mean now they just look like early Fortnite!
That looks like a specific level in Left for Dead 2
Nice, it made it back into PUBG :)
That's funny, the second example is the Peace Bridge in Calgary.
On a nice day the render actually looks close to the real thing!
Maybe a real picture of the actual bridge was in the training set? Similar to how prompting for a story about a boy wizard can result in verbatim Harry Potter passages.
I think they use their eyes to see the Peace Bridge and were saying it's fairly close to their experience. :D
And the real killer app of contact lens AR will be ... this in reverse.
It feels Snapchat already has beauty filters as standard. Or you can also spot the beauty filters glitching out all the girls dancing on Tiktok/IG, e.g. their eyelashes would be somewhere else for a split second...
Hah, like connected cars talking to each other, the AR goggles/lenses will talk to each other so each person can broadcast a unified beautifed version of their face to others.
Maybe the Grok AR goggles will have Grok features...
Very “futurological congress” thought
That's black mirror level content.
One of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth books features this as a whole chapter, the first of the Cugel books I believe. I don’t know of an earlier appearance of the concept.
Can we re-engineer LSD so the only effect we can get is how colors look 12 hours afterwards?
This does more than remove shine. It makes every building look like it's in the UK!
The rust stains in realistic locations on the bridge is very well done.
I keep getting "Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code." Run out of tokens?
Same here. Disappointing. I wanted to run it on that picture of a church that looks like a chicken.
This is just a Nano Banana wrapper I imagine.
It would be great if I can run this as a browser extension that works on Zillow and Redfin.
I am very curious if this app is making money or are users just using the two generators and then leaving? If so I am very impressed with your wrapper around the image gen models.
I can imagine the reverse model could be very profitable with every real estate agent using it to make dreary photos look great.
Geez, I'm reminded of a business student's idea of "Uber for photoshoppers" (this is ~20 years ago): you upload your picture, you say what you want changed, and I guess you pick which photoshopper's work looks convincing from a marketplace of them...
He had a website, and the sample pic is a girl lying on her back, and in the "after" picture she's wearing a bigger cup-size..
does this work on people
Ha this is great - I always thought this would be a brilliant application for AI.
The absolutely 100% leafless trees stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit. They look less like "end of fall/beginning of winter" and more like "dead".
Also, the model goes a bit overboard with the electrical appliances. I had to laugh at the bridge one.
I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol
https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx
For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if
This is just Moscow
As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.
Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked
The rimigo proxy works for me: https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/nFQN5tx
If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.
Ugh, this looks way too real...
Looks like Machinarium. I like it.
What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!
I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.
Yeah, it's really a masterpiece. It's utterly fantastic.
Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.
Apart from some lucky places, most of the world cities looks like this or worse.
Excellent idea. So many modern buildings age so poorly. Maybe this will give some starchitecs a bit of a pause...
This is ingenious and actually useful. I'm looking for a new apartment and I always wanted to know how do these places look in a bad weather, because that's when I need beautiful surroundings the most.
Unfortunately, it doesn't actually tell you that information: it just turns a dial. What you want is to know how much that dial would be turned by bad weather.
As long as it's not changing the form of the buildings, it seems valid. Although, the first two examples both add random telecom cabinets in places that don't make much sense.
I figure that’s an architectural in-joke. The engineers will add ugly stuff because you didn’t consider stuff like HVAC or electricity.
It's infinitely better than nothing.
Fortunately, you have one of the world's most powerful supercomputers sitting between your ears, so we don't need to compare this to nothing.
This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...
It's not a filter, it's an image editing model
This drink is not a smoothie, it is a blend of fruits and berries.
In my mind "filter" is some specific algorithm that does a single expected transformation
"Filter" is a Tik-tok / snapchat / instagram parlance for any kind of overlay / transformation. It's grown larger than just sepia filters and similar. All the ones that do facial tracking and overlay a mustache or w/e is funny in the moment are also referred to as filters.
See https://www.snapchat.com/lens
There's a pretty clear expected transformation here though? It takes an image and then reduces the "shiny-ness" of it by giving it the same transformation: change the sky to overcast, add material degradation like rust, reduce the landscaping by adding weeds/puddles, and remove the happy looking people.
Also adding random electrical infrastructure and random signs, also removing a statue in the distance in one of the images
Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.
It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.
How is it not just a midjourney prompt? The liberties it takes seem to be better described by 'upload a picture, and AI will be told to make it dingier'. Can't people already do that ad nauseam?
Au contraire, in a rather realistic way
What is it with people?
Is there some weird force dropping electrical enclosures on bridges (the cables on top even?) and random places in the street.
Those random protruding manholes next to two other drainage gates nowhere near a slope?
Why are these even the examples.
This is just like turning the HDR tone mapping up to 200%
It's not that bad actually. Over the years stuff like electrical installations, cables and random manholes often get retrofitted in an ugly way to existing architecture.
I was actually going to comment on the main post, how well tuned the AI seems with it's placement of random electrical wires and junction boxes that seem to match my impression of renderings-vs-reality.
I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.
Getting a 402 error payment required when I try to run this, I'm guessing all of the credits for the API account have been used up. Great idea though!
It's some Loveable app thing. Fun idea though
Used it on some Fortnite screenshots, I'd play that depressing version!
https://files.catbox.moe/i8tfkl.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/mw8vbc.jpg
Then I thought what would it make from an already dark and grim scene, like HL2 Ravenholm
https://files.catbox.moe/d7z77h.jpg
but nothing really? Just made the whole thing a different color scheme + changed some architecture
Halfway to The Last of Us conversion for Fortnite
Sandy Strip is a low rent strip club right? Based on the name and logo it can't be anything else... Anyhow, that looks like GTA to me.
They stole the ravenholm sign
It really tied the place together.
I mean now they just look like early Fortnite!
That looks like a specific level in Left for Dead 2
Nice, it made it back into PUBG :)
That's funny, the second example is the Peace Bridge in Calgary.
On a nice day the render actually looks close to the real thing!
Maybe a real picture of the actual bridge was in the training set? Similar to how prompting for a story about a boy wizard can result in verbatim Harry Potter passages.
I think they use their eyes to see the Peace Bridge and were saying it's fairly close to their experience. :D
And the real killer app of contact lens AR will be ... this in reverse.
It feels Snapchat already has beauty filters as standard. Or you can also spot the beauty filters glitching out all the girls dancing on Tiktok/IG, e.g. their eyelashes would be somewhere else for a split second...
Hah, like connected cars talking to each other, the AR goggles/lenses will talk to each other so each person can broadcast a unified beautifed version of their face to others.
Maybe the Grok AR goggles will have Grok features...
Very “futurological congress” thought
That's black mirror level content.
One of Jack Vance’s Dying Earth books features this as a whole chapter, the first of the Cugel books I believe. I don’t know of an earlier appearance of the concept.
Can we re-engineer LSD so the only effect we can get is how colors look 12 hours afterwards?
This does more than remove shine. It makes every building look like it's in the UK!
The rust stains in realistic locations on the bridge is very well done.
I keep getting "Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code." Run out of tokens?
Same here. Disappointing. I wanted to run it on that picture of a church that looks like a chicken.
This is just a Nano Banana wrapper I imagine.
It would be great if I can run this as a browser extension that works on Zillow and Redfin.
I am very curious if this app is making money or are users just using the two generators and then leaving? If so I am very impressed with your wrapper around the image gen models.
I can imagine the reverse model could be very profitable with every real estate agent using it to make dreary photos look great.
Reverse model aimed at estate agents already posted in this thread by someone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829566
this landing page is a lead gen tool for the architect at the bottom
Ahh, I see that. Thanks
It's because of Autodesk BIM no?
They still look great on a rainy November day. A nice cozy, quiet vibe.
Used it on the line. That got dark fast..
Wow. Umm, the "free generations" limit is running on a client-based honour system...
Nano Banana is indeed a powerful model :)
Looks beautiful tbh. I prefer the greyness
British filter.
I did exactly the opposite with https://prontopic.com
thanks for helping people to lie
Geez, I'm reminded of a business student's idea of "Uber for photoshoppers" (this is ~20 years ago): you upload your picture, you say what you want changed, and I guess you pick which photoshopper's work looks convincing from a marketplace of them...
He had a website, and the sample pic is a girl lying on her back, and in the "after" picture she's wearing a bigger cup-size..
does this work on people
Ha this is great - I always thought this would be a brilliant application for AI.
The absolutely 100% leafless trees stretched my suspension of disbelief a bit. They look less like "end of fall/beginning of winter" and more like "dead".
Also, the model goes a bit overboard with the electrical appliances. I had to laugh at the bridge one.
Apart from that, it's a great idea!