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• What Street Fighter Characters Would Look Like as Real Humans, According to AI
• Paving Trails in Ireland with Sheep's Wool
• Tiffany Stained Glass Cookies by Ella Hawkins
• Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird
• Popular Medieval Memes Explained
• The Finalists for The 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

What Street Fighter Characters Would Look Like as Real Humans, According to AI Posted: 01 Sep 2021 10:56 PM PDT Ok. That's a wrap! (for today, ofc) Let me introduce Zangief. 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/uw6J2FZ09N — Siberian_644 (@Siberian_644) August 30, 2021 What would Street Fighter characters look like if they were real life humans? And we're not talking about the 1984 movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme - we're talking about the classic Capcom video games. Well, wonder no more: Twitter user @Siberian_644 used Google AI to turn various Street Fighter characters into 'real humans'. View the gallery over at Infinite1UP - here's Street Fighter Characters Turned Into Photorealistic 'Real Humans' by Google AI I can't stop staring at Zangief ... Blanka!! (finally AI recognize his face) pic.twitter.com/8cFds6faNI — Siberian_644 (@Siberian_644) August 31, 2021 ... or at Blanka!

Paving Trails in Ireland with Sheep's Wool Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:44 PM PDT Does it sound like a suspiciously too Irish thing to do? The technique was actually pioneered by the ancient Romans. Trails paved with layers of wool erode slower than other materials and are more environmentally friendly than synthetics. The Irish Times talked to Bryan Fennell, a recreation official in northern (lower-case n) Ireland: The process involves a layer of fleeces being placed under four layers of stone. "Over the last few years, walking has exploded as a sport in Ireland," explained Mr Fennell. He said some walkers instinctively avoid muddy areas and spread out over blanket bog, not realising the damage they do as a result. "What we want to do is create defined tracks," he added. [...] "The beauty of this technique is that you can shear sheep on the side of a hill and put the fleece directly into the track because the wool needs no treatment." -via Marilyn Terrell | Photo: Bryan Fennell

Tiffany Stained Glass Cookies by Ella Hawkins Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:30 PM PDT Ella Hawkins uses cookies as an art medium, which is great, except you would feel awful about eating them! These cookies are inspired by vintage Tiffany Studios lamps. She decorated them with stained glass made from gel food coloring and vodka. The "lead" in between is royal icing. Check out each cookie next to the Tiffany lamp from which its design comes. Click to the right to see them all. See more of Hawkins' lovely art cookies here. -via Everlasting Blort

Computer-Generated New Yorker Cartoons Are Delightfully Weird Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:29 PM PDT "Generally speaking That looks like a pretty good call. Hey, Pop, how's the economy going today? I guess I'll have to move." pic.twitter.com/HZeLIb5huS — The Neural Yorker (@NeuralYorker) August 24, 2021 Cartoons in The New Yorker are iconic enough that you easily recognize one outside of the magazine. Even as the jokes are crowdsourced, the same style endures. Could an algorithm learn the style well enough to produce New Yorker cartoons? Introducing: The Neural Yorker. Paying on their ubiquity and familiarity, comics artist Ilan Manouach and AI engineer Ioannis Siglidis developed the Neural Yorker, an artificial intelligence (AI) engine that posts computer-generated cartoons on Twitter. The project consists of image-and-caption combinations produced by a generative adversarial network (GAN), a deep-learning-based model. The network is trained using a database of punchlines and images of cartoons found online and then "learns" to create new gags in the New Yorker's iconic style, with hilarious (and sometimes unsettling) results. "Are there any stupid people here that don't need a little paint?" pic.twitter.com/Q0vkdfSvfU — The Neural Yorker (@NeuralYorker) August 9, 2021 The comics are not conventionally as funny as the real New Yorker cartoons, but their very weirdness may provoke giggles. And when they come a little too close to human experiences, those giggles can become a sense of dread. Read about The Neural Yorker project at Hyperallergic, and follow its Twitter account to see what it comes up with next. -via Damn Interesting

Popular Medieval Memes Explained Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:29 PM PDT We know that medieval art can be really weird. It's one thing to find a random jousting snail or an ugly baby Jesus, but when those things happen over and over, you start to wonder what caused those trends. Some of these can be explained by the religious culture of the time, while others are recurring jokes, which we might even call memes. So it's only fitting that they have become memes all over again in the 21st century!

The Finalists for The 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Posted: 01 Sep 2021 04:29 PM PDT The finalists for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have been selected! See the best of the best submissions that caught wild animals at the wrong moment, or just comically being themselves. The kangaroo practicing his stagecraft above is from Lea Scadden. The jump for joy below is from Roland Kranitz. See all the finalists here. Once you've decided which one you like best, vote for the People's Choice Award here. The winners of this year's competition will be announced on October 22. -via Bored Panda

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