What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

(rybakov.com)

132 points | by spython 5 days ago

15 comments

  • pelagicAustral 50 minutes ago

        > the obvious desire for transgressive expression by drawing dicks and slurs
    
    this truly is fascinating, that the common denominator of an anonymous, open space for creative expression ultimately seem to always generate large amounts of doodly dicks... Are there any studies on this?
    • bryanrasmussen 11 minutes ago
      not exactly, but there are quotes and aphorisms

      https://medium.com/luminasticity/90-crap-48e4c79419a9

      "In every time and environment that humans found they could make art by drawing on some surface there has always been one fellow in the community who found he could let people know what a big dick he had by making a rendering available for everybody else in his distribution channel

      This base level of dick drawings to other artistic forms represent the minimal level of crap in all aesthetic production."

  • ykl 8 hours ago
    One of the horses on a ball is very recognizably a James Baxter[1]!

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_the_Horse

  • anotheryou 2 hours ago
    Show us the penis collection, we know it exists! (also amazing already anyways :)
  • gus_massa 4 days ago
    My Pegasus and my Space Invader weren't selected :(

    Anyway, I remember a very good Godzilla and a moonwalking Michael Jackson. I think the post need an additional row for weird.

    • spython 3 days ago
      Oooh, there are just so many horses - more than 600 000 - that it's a tiny chance to actually see your drawings! And there are around 50 000 drawings marked as non-horses - all kind of weirdness - that could be an exhibition on its own..

      Thank you for drawing, a typical drawing is seen more than a hundred times, so your pegasus and space invader were seen and appreciated : )

      • gus_massa 3 days ago
        Nice game. I draw like 10 "horses". The first didn't move the legs because I didn't understand the idea, then I started to add moving things, and then weird things like the space invader. Anyway, mines were not as good as other examples I saw.
      • zaik 9 hours ago
        Is clicking and double clicking some kind of voting system?
        • spython 8 hours ago
          Yes, on the original gradient.horse it was an early experiment in hidden moderation - and it did help hide quite a few of the less kind drawings. Now, as the moderation model trained on the larger corpus works quite well, it's just for fun.
  • swah 8 hours ago
    Found the blurrred 67 so funny when I was expecting penises
  • quuxplusone 9 hours ago
    One of your snails is clearly a chambered nautilus instead. :)
  • deanc 2 hours ago
    This would fit right into any modern art gallery. Seems that these interactive generative art projects are in most museums nowadays.
  • postsantum 2 hours ago
    What about pelicans?
  • bitwize 7 hours ago
    "Oh god, what have you done. You have drawn your horse incorrectly. Look what your careless hands have wrought. Select the pistol, and then, select your horse."

    https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26/the-unhorse

  • shevy-java 1 hour ago
    A pe** ... erm ... nevermind. I was just reminded of the fancy art I see when visiting university-campus toilets ...
  • earth-tattoo 8 hours ago
    No dicks?
    • spython 8 hours ago
      So many dicks! Roughly 4 percent of all drawings are dicks. With over 600 000 drawings that means.. Twenty five thousand dicks. I thought about including them, but as with all the other transgressive drawings, the only person who enjoys looking at them is the one who drew them.
  • rawling 2 hours ago
    ... does one of the pictures jump occasionally?
  • devonsolomon 2 hours ago
    Given that this is the internet, I highly suspect the author has left out a category.
    • deelly 2 hours ago
      Third sentence on the page:

      > The image model I trained to filter out vandalism works very well, but it also hides a lot of ingenious drawings. You could see them if you’d activate the SHOW NON-HORSES setting, but most people do not.

    • ta8903 1 hour ago
      Yep. There is a very distinct lack of horsegirls.