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Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
361•iambateman•1h ago

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yetihehe•1h ago
Wow, someone finally made Poland-filter. It all looks exactly like I'm used to.
dbacar•53m ago
Apart from some lucky places, most of the world cities looks like this or worse.
aaronbrethorst•23m ago
That’s the Joke!
abraxas•21m ago
Before the dystopian black and gray fad arrived most buildings that went up were sort of OK. And I didn't mind the pastel paint on commie blocks either. But a decade ago someone decided that gray cuboids with asymmetric windows were an improvement...

Even so, I think North American cities are on average uglier than most Polish ones.

Overall we're not doing that bad but I want the memes to continue lest we get Prague or Amsterdam level tourist invasion.

zdragnar•14m ago
Pretty much any place with brutalist architecture, really. I'll happily take pretty much any revival or classical style over "modern" or brutalist style.

There's nothing more depressing than walking by beautiful historic old buildings only to turn a corner and see a monstrosity of concrete and glass somehow reaching the epitome of bland and uninviting.

OsrsNeedsf2P•1h ago
Looks beautiful tbh. I prefer the greyness
yawnxyz•1h ago
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!

shermantanktop•1h ago
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.
iambateman•1h ago
I think they use their eyes to see the Peace Bridge and were saying it's fairly close to their experience. :D
b450•1h ago
I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol

https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx

Toutouxc•1h ago
Looks like Machinarium. I like it.
sebmellen•1h ago
What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!
eps•1h ago
Yeah, it's really a masterpiece. It's utterly fantastic.
yokljo•28m ago
I really enjoyed "Samorost 3" by the same developers. Machinarium still takes the cake though.
rollinDyno•1h ago
This is just Moscow
smsm42•1h ago
Ugh, this looks way too real...
palmotea•56m ago
For those like me not up on the hip memes: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-world-if
lloydatkinson•52m ago
Does anyone have a mirror? I’m in authoritarian UK so the link is blocked
Analemma_•37m ago
If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.
0x3f•19m ago
I wish the UK looked this good.
RealCodingOtaku•25m ago
The rimigo proxy works for me: https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/nFQN5tx
fredley•52m ago
As someone in the UK, this was especially chilling.
egorfine•1h ago
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.
wizzwizz4•1h ago
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.
egorfine•1h ago
It's infinitely better than nothing.
wizzwizz4•30m ago
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.
Retr0id•1h ago
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.
Jolter•48m ago
I figure that’s an architectural in-joke. The engineers will add ugly stuff because you didn’t consider stuff like HVAC or electricity.
ziml77•1h ago
They still look great on a rainy November day. A nice cozy, quiet vibe.
poly2it•1h ago
This filter seems to also change some architectural details and features, as well as degrade the quality of some materials in an unrealistic way.
Tiberium•1h ago
It's not a filter, it's an image editing model
poly2it•1h ago
This drink is not a smoothie, it is a blend of fruits and berries.
Tiberium•1h ago
In my mind "filter" is some specific algorithm that does a single expected transformation
tomasphan•1h ago
Right, filtering is the reduction of information while diffusion/generation is creation.
viraptor•1h ago
It doesn't have to be a reduction. Swapping the colour channels would be a filter, but it's perfectly reversible.
its_ethan•1h ago
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.
superb_dev•38m ago
Also adding random electrical infrastructure and random signs, also removing a statue in the distance in one of the images
henryfjordan•46m ago
"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

Applejinx•1h ago
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?
mckirk•1h ago
That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.
netsharc•33m ago
Huh, I wonder if they trained it by feeding it architectural renders and "what actually got built" photos...
lucaslazarus•1h ago
Au contraire, in a rather realistic way
nickandbro•1h ago
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.
luckydata•1h ago
this landing page is a lead gen tool for the architect at the bottom
nickandbro•1h ago
Ahh, I see that. Thanks
londons_explore•1h ago
I can imagine the reverse model could be very profitable with every real estate agent using it to make dreary photos look great.
joshuaissac•1h ago
Reverse model aimed at estate agents already posted in this thread by someone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46829566
Tiberium•1h ago
Nano Banana is indeed a powerful model :)
haunter•1h ago
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

dasil003•1h ago
Halfway to The Last of Us conversion for Fortnite
assaddayinh•1h ago
They stole the ravenholm sign
crazysim•1h ago
It really tied the place together.
nicbou•1h ago
That looks like a specific level in Left for Dead 2
ksherlock•1h ago
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.
Applejinx•58m ago
Nice, it made it back into PUBG :)
chrysoprace•28m ago
I mean now they just look like early Fortnite!
Nevermark•1h ago
And the real killer app of contact lens AR will be ... this in reverse.
viraptor•1h ago
That's black mirror level content.
mkturkcan•54m ago
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.
netsharc•50m ago
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...

colechristensen•41m ago
Can we re-engineer LSD so the only effect we can get is how colors look 12 hours afterwards?
DrPhish•30m ago
Very “futurological congress” thought
tart-lemonade•10m ago
Like HYPER-REALITY? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
IshKebab•1h ago
Ha this is great - I always thought this would be a brilliant application for AI.
PenguinRevolver•1h ago
Wow. Umm, the "free generations" limit is running on a client-based honour system...
niyazpk•1h ago
It would be great if I can run this as a browser extension that works on Zillow and Redfin.
raffa667•1h ago
I did exactly the opposite with https://prontopic.com
willguest•51m ago
thanks for helping people to lie
netsharc•29m ago
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..

assaddayinh•1h ago
Used it on the line. That got dark fast..
purplecats•1h ago
does this work on people
wbobeirne•1h ago
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!
gedy•50m ago
It's some Loveable app thing. Fun idea though
archy_•1h ago
I keep getting "Edge Function returned a non-2xx status code." Run out of tokens?
Gracana•1h ago
Same here. Disappointing. I wanted to run it on that picture of a church that looks like a chicken.
leoh•6m ago
I wanted to run it on renders from the owner's website
mxfh•1h ago
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%

hbs18•1h ago
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.
TheJoeMan•42m ago
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.
xg15•56m ago
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!

c-fe•19m ago
I have to say both the leafless trees and electrical box spawning is very on point for what you would find in eg Belgium. Check this full blown ugly building/container that spawned in the beautiful Liege Guillemins station https://maps.app.goo.gl/T1J7WwCCYDvBgJEc7
xg15•15m ago
Yeah, both are good additions - in moderation. I think the model just went into extremes with them.
throwway120385•12m ago
That's like every new building I've seen around here. Developers plant trees directly into compacted soil and then they grow half a foot within 10 years and then die in a hot summer. The building owner then just leaves them in because it's easier than taking them out.
James_K•55m ago
British filter.
ronsor•50m ago
This does more than remove shine. It makes every building look like it's in the UK!
83•39m ago
The rust stains in realistic locations on the bridge is very well done.
Onavo•33m ago
It's because of Autodesk BIM no?
GaggiX•29m ago
This is just a Nano Banana wrapper I imagine.
chromanoid•27m ago
I am patiently waiting for LARP AR glasses that have all kinds of these filters.
abraxas•25m ago
Excellent idea. So many modern buildings age so poorly. Maybe this will give some starchitecs a bit of a pause...
TrainedMonkey•22m ago
Aha, make it drab, soviet, and raining filter. Peak hipster, I love it.
throwawayk7h•20m ago
I like how it adds random electrical boxes everywhere.
throwway120385•18m ago
And water meters too. And the rust on all the welds is chefs kiss.
leoh•7m ago
And the trash cans
modeless•11m ago
This would be useful if it actually did some reasoning about the effects of aging on different materials, consequences of certain design decisions, etc. It's not doing that at all, and so it's just misleading instead. If you actually built these things and took pictures years later it wouldn't look like this. Some things would look better and some would look worse. So you can't use this to make decisions about what to build.
wateralien•5m ago
This was exhausting to read. Don’t you ever have fun?
fluoridation•5m ago
No, it would look like this, just not exactly like this. Say, the fancy bridge example has some rust runoff but no obvious metal for it to come from. Other than that, the guess is quite believable, and certainly much more so than the render.
Lerc•4m ago
This would be really useful if it came in a real estate photo version. Turn the photos that agents post back into the photos they took.

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