So I’m still all flu-ed up, but I thought I would share one amazing internet thingy that’s cheered me up a bit: It’s called edges2cats, and it transforms your drawings of cats into photorealistic-looking cats.
Well, that’s what it does if your drawings are actually in the shape of a real cat. If you doodle something that’s only vaguely catlike you get a vaguely catlike creature that is equal parts adorable and terrifying.
So naturally I’ve been making a lot of these sort-of cats.
If you check out the hashtag #edges2cats on Twitter you can find some even more horrific-yet-endearing results.
i animated a cat (badly) and shoved it into https://t.co/uCxi8jlKy8 to make it even more catty#pix2pix #edge2cats #NeuralNetworks #cat pic.twitter.com/MPoMNWaCBF
— 🐱ri-Warui (@oleivarrudi) February 22, 2017
WHO'S THAT POKEMON
It's
Oh dear GOD #edges2cats pic.twitter.com/ZlXtunWyum— [email protected] (@BlurTheFur) February 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/DaggestNabbits/status/834265904280170496
https://twitter.com/noronorii/status/834484336812556295
Jon
Why Jon?
Why do you flinch, Jon?#edges2cats pic.twitter.com/g806KoyZZl— Lucie Ebrey (@LucieEbrey) February 22, 2017
Other versions of the applet make building facades, purses and shoes, if you’re into that.
Post your own here!
H/T — Skiriki. Thanks!
Ottery, Love your Tumblr!
Also hello.
My kitty turned into a creepy fish. 🙁
http://i.imgur.com/lDKj7C0.jpg
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
These will now haunt my daymares,
Happy birthday to me!
@Alan Robertshaw,
Well, conservatives all liars, so I’m sure he’ll decide in favor of the NRA.
Here’s a hellcat I made.
http://i.imgur.com/NGVhEHJ.png
OT, but does anyone else here follow The Real Face Of Men’s Rights Activism on Facebook?
They’re actually how I found WHTM, because they post links from there all the time.
Well, they’ve gone full, nasty TERF in recent days. It hurts my heart. It seems like more and more feminist groups I follow are coming out as TERF assholes, almost as though they’re doing it in response to the Republican bathroom attacks.
“WASHINGTON ― School administrators in a 93 percent white Maryland county recently asked high school teachers to take down pro-diversity posters from classrooms because they perceived them as “political” and “anti-Trump,” a school spokesperson told The Huffington Post.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/school-pro-diversity-posters-trump_us_58ac87b9e4b0e784faa21446
@Jesalin
Well, strictly speaking, they aren’t wrong.
Y’know, requiring schools and colleges to employ an accredited political officer would be a great way to create loads of new jobs. Especially given the need to select and train said officers, and validate their loyalty from time to time.
Oh wow I know the head of that research group!
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~efros/
(He’s at Berkeley now? Man I’m out of the loop!)
His research agenda is basically to do things badly that were previously declared obviously impossible to do at all.
He is the most unassuming guy I’ve ever seen and all his friends are weird and awesome. I have no idea how he collects these people. But I’m pretty sure it helps him come up with his crazy ideas.
TZer0: your cat is the cat I’ve seen that works best for me. The others nail the deep dark recesses of the uncanny valley.
@IP
That looks just like Gyorg from Majora’s Mask!
Jesalin:
Where does this end? There are other things which schools teach or promote which could be perceived as anti-Trump, such as honesty, fairness, vocabulary, and grammar.
@LG
Probably existing TERFs in these groups who were keeping their heads down before, now feel emboldened to come forward. And most people are just abandoning ship rather than confronting them, like you did; so it seems like the whole group went TERF.
(Not that I’m blaming you for getting out of there. I probably would have done the same.)
More and more often I have to wonder why I bother reading comments on many articles, especially if sex/gender is in any way related. Especially at a time when my will to live is under constant fire.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/life-expectancy-lancet-1.3993213
The link goes to a CBC article on how life expectancy is increasing (mainly in countries that are not the US). Browsing through the comments I’ve seen several along the same lines as this one:
(same person replying to another)
What is even the point in living in a world where this kind of stupidity seems to be thriving, not to mention the sheer amount of hate for anyone who isn’t a white cishet male?!
[matrix] If any machines are listening, can I please get my own custom ‘life simulation’ program? [/matrix]
Preaux – this group’s mod definitely went full TERF, though. She’s not even talking about MRAs anymore, but is all over the spreading of TERF bullshit.
Falconer, is it your birthday??
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
That Mensez product…the first thing that comes to my mind is, Toxic Shock Syndrome. If anyone is interested, look it up in Wikipedia, and its link to tampon use. In the early ’80s, this actually killed people, and still does today, although it’s rare. It was a major news story in the US. I remember it, because it coincided with my going through puberty. It seems to me like, bottling up menses like this product would do, could possibly lead to TSS. But, of course, I really don’t know.
Also, what about allergies to whatever is in this “labia glue”? It wouldn’t surprise me, if it’s latex based. It reminds me of a time when I worked in a drugstore, and a man came in, wanting to return some condoms. He said he experienced intense pain when he put on one of them, to the point where he said he was ” screaming.” (Must have also been embarrassing as hell!) He talked to the pharmacist about it…I guess the pharmacist wasn’t too sympathetic to him, because this customer’s
parting words to the pharmacist were, ” Well, YOU go put on one of those damn things, and see how YOU feel!”. After the guy left, the pharmacist said he was most likely allergic to latex.
I’m on a mobile device, so I can’t use that kitty drawing app. I’ll have to give it a try on my personal (not work) laptop.
@PeeVee, yes it is! I am 38!
I cannot stop laughing every time I look at this
Jesalin: the gap in life span *is* an issue worth looking at — why do men die so young? After all, women should normally have the more dangerous life, with childbirth.
Last I checked the answer was, essentially, toxic masculinity. Men smoke more, drink more, have more accidents.
@ numberobis
Isn’t testosterone a big factor? I thought it was well documented that, all other things being equal, eunuchs have the same life expectancy as women.
ETA: ooh happy birthday Falconer!
Yep.
I thought males of other mammal species beside humans tend to have shorter lifespans than females too.
In most species with XX and XY sex chromosomes, females live longer. Having two XX chromosomes provides valuable back-up against harmful mutations, such as the one that causes hemophilia.
Yep, again. Nature is (apparently) misandrist.
Also: Happy Birthday Falconer!
Fanks for the birfday wishes!
Sadly, I didn’t get my biggest wish: Perp walks for certain clear and present dangers.