Show HN: Face Generator

[aljmyl]

This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings.

The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that.

You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

[blensor]

Funny thing, for some inexplicable reason playing around with the sliders made my feel agressive, not against something in particular but an overall feeling ( that's the best I can describe it ). At first I thought it was the unreal faces, but after reading about the randomness I figured out it was the jumping between completely unrelated faces.

After switching off randomness I immediately felt calmer due to the smoothly changing faces.

[EFFALO]

Love the faces your tool makes! So wonderfully weird. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face

[mvkel]

I'm curious, why not build the UI to be more intuitive to begin with? Is it really easier to name things y2, y3, etc. than even a simple descriptor?

Genuinely curious, I know it sounds like I'm demeaning. I really am not trying to!

[dymk]

I took a look at this and thought, wow, this would be great for generating plotter art. Good job!

[Kiro]

I hope you realize the extreme effect the completely outrageous decision to have randomize on by default has on people. Turn it off before someone goes crazy for real.

[discordance]

Very cool. Just saw your old post asking about how to form a career around art and technology. I'm also interested in the same.

Got a contact?

[jrugk]

"randomize" should be off by default. otherwise it simply looks like it's glitching when you touch any slider

[ciroduran]

Consider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/

I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.

[aljmyl]

Great tip - thank you!

[lotyrin]

Is it intended to be a Little My generator, or is it just me?

[aljmyl]

The resemblance with Moomin characters is not a coincidence. I'm a big fan of Tove Jansson's work!

I've have also made other kind of experiments with face generation: https://github.com/aleksimyllyoja/generative/blob/master/img...

[michaelvoz]

I too, see Little My.

[waiseristy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face

[ape4]

The domain is å.cc, nice

[sdan]

Kind of weird, but that's cool! Only problem is typing that by hand...

[hombre_fatal]

Phishers love this feature.

[mysterypie]

Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in angles and proportions in a human face makes the difference between recognizable and unrecognizable.

[chrisseaton]

I heard that they deliberately try to not make them too realistic, as it then over-fits. They aren’t sure, so a bit of abstraction helps to overlook where it doesn’t quite match.

[raymondgh]

fun! made one: https://i.imgur.com/KwBNzWQ.png

[folex]

This sure is awesome! https://i.imgur.com/255UjuN.png

I wish all the controls work with randomize on – so I can have random image with some parameters fixed. e.g., if I change some parameter, it stays fixed.

Do you have source code for the project?

Once again, it's awesome!

[lxe]

This is what powers thispersondoesnotexist.

[Camillo]

Yes, they just use CycleGAN to go from diagram to photo.

[etaioinshrdlu]

This site lets you generate faces via neural net and tweak many parameters interactively: http://www.artbreeder.com/

[laputan_machine]

this is actually a really cool, really fast-feedback way to see what tiny changes to the shape or positioning of a mouth or nose gives a dramatically different visual cue. People who've been drawing for years probably know all the little tweaks to make characters look differently, but as someone who isn't, I learnt a something new. Nice!

[andyhmltn]

This is why I love drawing faces. Such a subtle change can make such a big difference to the end drawing. It's really interesting. I guess that's because our brains are so hard wired to process faces.

[zadkey]

It's an interesting concept. Seems to have some issues in firefox with changing numbers. It looks like many of the numbers go to a random number after changing rather than the one you set it to.

[jonplackett]

A lot of the faces it makes remind me of Toffle from the Moomins

https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/toffle/

[aljmyl]

Thank you all for the comments - I made few improvements: * Randomize is not on by default * Added more options for adjusting jaw/chin shape * Better ranges for some variables

[city41]

Kinda like if Nintendo Miis were made out of vectors. Fun stuff.

[nojvek]

This site hacks the back button. If the author is here, please fix it.

[aljmyl]

I'm here, but I don't know what you mean. Could you elaborate?

[k_sze]

I wonder if it could be a cool replacement for police facial composites.

[iamnotacrook]

Very frustrating on mobile!

[HNLurker2]

Wtf is this.

[aljmyl]

A Face Generator

[app4soft]

The only issue I see: during changing "scale" face should NOT be regenerated!