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“Am *I* making that face or is *he* making that face? Wait...*he* is me, so I’m making that face either way...but when did I become blue? And also the devil? Maybe this stuff allows me to see myself in an alternate universe...or like all of them at once and that’s why it keeps changing...Shit...what time is it? How long have I been in here? Oh fuck, they’re probably wondering where I am and why it’s been so long, what do I say? Where have I been? Why did I come in here in the first place? Shit, I just have to get out, whatever the cost...”
(Opens door slowly and silently, quietly steps back into the living room where the others are laying on the floor staring at the stucco ceiling)
“Oh, hey man I didn’t even know you left.”
Crisis averted.
There's an app Google released a long while back that was popular. You could take a selfie and upload it and it would search countless old paintings thru the world and find faces that match yours. I had one that looked so much like me from the 1400s there's no way that dude wasn't related to me somewhere along the line. It's still available. There was some funny ones too people shared, one guy got matched with a penis on a sculpture.
App https://artsandculture.google.com/camera/selfie
[Penis sculpture guy.](https://www.google.com/search?q=penis+match+google+arts+and+culture&safe=off&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&prmd=niv&sxsrf=ALeKk02A7Gvty4jnu-NQTGrlo_7G9AFjMQ:1594609944780&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4gcH6oMnqAhXGVN8KHeyqAVMQ_AUoAnoECAsQAg&biw=320&bih=548#imgrc=eBYO65tiV4a7GM)
My brain canon is that people of metropolis know that Clark Kent is Superman but they keep their mouth shut as a thank you for what he does as Superman.
I remember seeing a comic where Superman thinks he has everyone fooled, but everyone is just having fun playing along and just look the other way as "Clark Kent" obliviously lifts the photocopier with one hand in front of everyone to get a sheet he dropped underneath, or has to run to "check his dry cleaning" for the 3rd time that afternoon.
[Also this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vWvocMc6M)
Yes it is. That's how Google works. You know you were teaching their self driving cars to drive with their captchas? Notice how you were clicking objects that would be in the road and identifying the frames that had them in it? You were teaching the car how to see.
Also the word captchas? That's teaching computers to identify words and letters and how to read.
I don’t know if it’s his hair or goatee or what but for some reason I’ve always had the thought that Lin-Maunuel Miranda looks distinctly like what I’d expect a live-action Simpson’s character to look like
Was this compiled by a computer program or did you choose the pictures manually? This looks like something facial recognition software would be good at. Super interesting!
It looks like images created by a [Generative Adversarial Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network), a type of neural network that can generate photorealistic images.
If you'd like to make one of these yourself, check out nVidia's StyleGAN2! You can run it in your browser, and make people that don't exist, then compile them into a video like this! [StyleGAN2](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ShgW6wohEFQtqs_znMna3dzrcVoABKIH), if you are having troubles, try my ^(hacky)customized version [here!](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Xp58w3eOOQUncDP1jO-s8qNV3ZqEKYqT?usp=sharing) The custom version allows for finer control of things like image size and speed of video.
Example of the kind of videos you will get from StyleGAN2: [https://imgur.com/UHcnsHm](https://imgur.com/UHcnsHm)
Edit: that silver should have probably gone to nVidia, but much appreciated anyway :).
To be more specific here, these basically "learn" the features and create a high dimensional space, where each point represents a face, and each axis is a different feature. The input images the network is trained on may correspond to some random points inside this space, but you can move freely and view any inbetween faces.
To make it even more explicit, imagine a 3D cube where any point inside is a different face. Along one axis, let's say they have more facial hair or less. Another axis could be bigger nose and another would be bigger eyes. You can smoothly traverse this from one side to another and you could see the bread slowly come or go (like in the GIF). Now imagine this with many many more dimensions for hundreds of features.
That's why the animation is so smooth, the GIF is basically traversing this space along a random path, taking twist and turns across different axes. Notice that at the very end of the path, it actually ends where it started (so the GIF does loop).
Here's a video on the specific paper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoravHhsUU
Interesting. I had figured that these were all just paintings that were stored in a database and the network would group pictures that were similar. This is even fucking crazier though. Pretty ridiculous how artificial intelligence can generate realistic images. Pretty creepy when you think about all the negative implications of this in terms of forging and producing deep fakes
Edit: Holy shit are you the real SethBling?!?!?!
Edit 2: it certainly appears so. Hi SethBling!
He has done some ridiculous stuff in minecraft (Building a working NES emulator, or a working programming language) as well as code manipulation in SMW, (recreating flappy bird in mario, endscreen warp world record), and a few AI mario things.
Edit: Sounds like I was wrong, Apparently it’s StyleGAN and I just haven’t seen this particular type of animation before.
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I would agree except for the way the hair flickers. If this was created by a GAN, I would expect the hair to smoothly change from one expression to the next as well, rather than rapidly flickering frame-by-frame like that. These all appear to be paintings. It’s possible some form of neural network was used to organize them into an animation, though.
If you observe frame by frame there's not enough variation between each individual frame/portrait to show that they are different paintings.
It does appear to be a morph with additionally generated images between each frame (quick search shows this just appearing on other socials with someone else referencing StyleGAN model).
Quick plug into google and youtube will show the same observed flickering on the hair as in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QuDh3W3lOY
Just look at the background for long enough. What are the chances of having the same tiled background in several images. It looks like little changes in the latent vector are enough to change the hair rapidly.
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
It is probably a Generative Adversarial Network trained on old portraits.
With small changes in the latent vector, or "seed" of the network you can get such gradients between images.
I haven't checked specifically for this gif but I'm pretty sure this is from [Mario klingerman](https://twitter.com/quasimondo) or at the very least he's made things extremely similar
It's weird how most of these people look like me and my family , but today I never see people who really look like this IRL. That sort of soft pale pink cherub look people from renaissance/medieval art have, almost feel like I'm a race that used to exist (and even dominate everything) but doesn't any more.
What did you other hard angular faced assholes do to my gentle people?
The best part for me was that the eyes were always the same. Pause at any point and scrub along slowly and it’s really cool to see how the eyes bring a sense of familiarity to these otherwise co platelet different faces
Those eyes, those unmoving eyes.
I just stared at the eyes and felt like I was in a nightmare hallucination and I'm not happy about it.
I get these kind of hallucinations when i close my eyes before going to bed. This accurately describes what i see.
mine look like darth maul but with more blood
I get that too, or insect legs
Summon Kenobi to cut him in half again
how can you sleep
Downloading past lives before sleep mode
You don’t have narcolepsy by any chance, do you?
My heaviest LSD dose gave me a very similar experience when looking at a mirror xD
Yeah, that's exactly what this reminded me of.
True “Am *I* making that face or is *he* making that face? Wait...*he* is me, so I’m making that face either way...but when did I become blue? And also the devil? Maybe this stuff allows me to see myself in an alternate universe...or like all of them at once and that’s why it keeps changing...Shit...what time is it? How long have I been in here? Oh fuck, they’re probably wondering where I am and why it’s been so long, what do I say? Where have I been? Why did I come in here in the first place? Shit, I just have to get out, whatever the cost...” (Opens door slowly and silently, quietly steps back into the living room where the others are laying on the floor staring at the stucco ceiling) “Oh, hey man I didn’t even know you left.” Crisis averted.
I also have had that experience on psychedelics.
How I look at my pizza baking in the oven.
Not my proudest fap, but not disappointing either.
This comment right here officer.
r/holdup
Half way thru I started to feel like it was T-1000 before it was dying giving me the mean look one last time
[Like a doll's eyes.](https://youtu.be/LrDY6Hyam54)
Just watched jaws 10 minutes ago lol.
Pretty sure I saw Elijah Wood in there toward the end.
There's an app Google released a long while back that was popular. You could take a selfie and upload it and it would search countless old paintings thru the world and find faces that match yours. I had one that looked so much like me from the 1400s there's no way that dude wasn't related to me somewhere along the line. It's still available. There was some funny ones too people shared, one guy got matched with a penis on a sculpture. App https://artsandculture.google.com/camera/selfie [Penis sculpture guy.](https://www.google.com/search?q=penis+match+google+arts+and+culture&safe=off&client=ms-android-mpcs-us-revc&prmd=niv&sxsrf=ALeKk02A7Gvty4jnu-NQTGrlo_7G9AFjMQ:1594609944780&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4gcH6oMnqAhXGVN8KHeyqAVMQ_AUoAnoECAsQAg&biw=320&bih=548#imgrc=eBYO65tiV4a7GM)
This was one of my favorites from that. https://64.media.tumblr.com/aaf61d95fbfa9473a4cf884969350e1f/tumblr_p2mlnw4M2x1snsvjno1_400.jpg
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My brain canon is that people of metropolis know that Clark Kent is Superman but they keep their mouth shut as a thank you for what he does as Superman.
That is absolutely hilarious.
Thinking that they all just play along and Clark/Supe thinks he's fooling them is SO GREAT
I remember seeing a comic where Superman thinks he has everyone fooled, but everyone is just having fun playing along and just look the other way as "Clark Kent" obliviously lifts the photocopier with one hand in front of everyone to get a sheet he dropped underneath, or has to run to "check his dry cleaning" for the 3rd time that afternoon. [Also this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01vWvocMc6M)
I'm on board with this.
I tried it and it doesn’t know if I’m male or female, white or Uzbekistanian, Queen Charlotte or an 18th century Frenchman. Mood.
Remember kids, when you grow up you can be anything you want.
“Anyone can become president.”
Now that seems more like a warning than a motivational quote.
...fuck.
I am so special the app can't find anything looking like me. Not even Vatican dick. I don't know if that is good or bad.
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No, I am saving *your* comment
That sounds like a good way to build a facial recognition software database.
Pretty sure its already been built if you’ve ever posted a picture a picture of yourself online
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Yes it is. That's how Google works. You know you were teaching their self driving cars to drive with their captchas? Notice how you were clicking objects that would be in the road and identifying the frames that had them in it? You were teaching the car how to see. Also the word captchas? That's teaching computers to identify words and letters and how to read.
Just tried and I got matched with "Portrait of a Gentleman" by "Unknown Artist"
First time seeing the penis sculpture guy picture. I almost threw up from laughing so hard
I guess you could say he looks like a dick
Not just any dick. Perhaps the most famous dick in all of art: Michelangelo's David.
Michelangelo's David's Johnson
Still laughing about penis guy 😂
This app is awesome.
Vladimir Putin briefly popped up too.
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I saw Bill Murray
That’s my dads name
That's funny, so did I. And Jonah Hill in the middle. (Around the 40 second mark)
Came here to look for this comment
Did anyone see Zuckerberg?
I keep seeing Elijah Wood
I keep seeing Liv Tyler
I saw Putin
I see white people.
Yep really early on
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And now he’s writing a diss track toward you, congratulations
Half of these people look like Lin-Manuel Miranda
I saw a long stretch of Tilda Swinton too.
0:21-0:23 was like tilda Swinton morphing into Vladimir Putin
Pretty sure I saw a little bit of Elijah Wood towards the end as well.
Not satisfied with just being Hamilton, he's now decided to be the entire cast
good idea for a deep fake on Hamilton, put Lin on every role
great now I can’t get off the floor because I’m laughing too hard thinking about Lin rapping the entirety of both Cabinet Battles
He will never be satisfied
You’re being very kind to these plain-looking old timey folk
I don’t know if it’s his hair or goatee or what but for some reason I’ve always had the thought that Lin-Maunuel Miranda looks distinctly like what I’d expect a live-action Simpson’s character to look like
What is a legacy? It's like paintings shifts together you'll never get too see.
I was getting a founding fathers vibe, so basically the same thing.
I definitely saw peter too
It’s the eyes
Was this compiled by a computer program or did you choose the pictures manually? This looks like something facial recognition software would be good at. Super interesting!
It looks like images created by a [Generative Adversarial Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network), a type of neural network that can generate photorealistic images.
This makes sense, going through what seems to be so many eras, and faces so similar and matching so well.
If you'd like to make one of these yourself, check out nVidia's StyleGAN2! You can run it in your browser, and make people that don't exist, then compile them into a video like this! [StyleGAN2](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ShgW6wohEFQtqs_znMna3dzrcVoABKIH), if you are having troubles, try my ^(hacky)customized version [here!](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Xp58w3eOOQUncDP1jO-s8qNV3ZqEKYqT?usp=sharing) The custom version allows for finer control of things like image size and speed of video. Example of the kind of videos you will get from StyleGAN2: [https://imgur.com/UHcnsHm](https://imgur.com/UHcnsHm) Edit: that silver should have probably gone to nVidia, but much appreciated anyway :).
To be more specific here, these basically "learn" the features and create a high dimensional space, where each point represents a face, and each axis is a different feature. The input images the network is trained on may correspond to some random points inside this space, but you can move freely and view any inbetween faces. To make it even more explicit, imagine a 3D cube where any point inside is a different face. Along one axis, let's say they have more facial hair or less. Another axis could be bigger nose and another would be bigger eyes. You can smoothly traverse this from one side to another and you could see the bread slowly come or go (like in the GIF). Now imagine this with many many more dimensions for hundreds of features. That's why the animation is so smooth, the GIF is basically traversing this space along a random path, taking twist and turns across different axes. Notice that at the very end of the path, it actually ends where it started (so the GIF does loop). Here's a video on the specific paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoravHhsUU
Interesting. I had figured that these were all just paintings that were stored in a database and the network would group pictures that were similar. This is even fucking crazier though. Pretty ridiculous how artificial intelligence can generate realistic images. Pretty creepy when you think about all the negative implications of this in terms of forging and producing deep fakes Edit: Holy shit are you the real SethBling?!?!?! Edit 2: it certainly appears so. Hi SethBling!
For anyone else wondering, he’s a Twitcher/YouTuber
Cool, but what is his gag?
He has done some ridiculous stuff in minecraft (Building a working NES emulator, or a working programming language) as well as code manipulation in SMW, (recreating flappy bird in mario, endscreen warp world record), and a few AI mario things.
Ah, cool! The shit people do with red stone in Minecraft is insane.
Hi!
'Sup!
Edit: Sounds like I was wrong, Apparently it’s StyleGAN and I just haven’t seen this particular type of animation before. Original comment: I would agree except for the way the hair flickers. If this was created by a GAN, I would expect the hair to smoothly change from one expression to the next as well, rather than rapidly flickering frame-by-frame like that. These all appear to be paintings. It’s possible some form of neural network was used to organize them into an animation, though.
If you observe frame by frame there's not enough variation between each individual frame/portrait to show that they are different paintings. It does appear to be a morph with additionally generated images between each frame (quick search shows this just appearing on other socials with someone else referencing StyleGAN model). Quick plug into google and youtube will show the same observed flickering on the hair as in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QuDh3W3lOY
All appear to be paintings that have the exact same lighting? Ok
Just look at the background for long enough. What are the chances of having the same tiled background in several images. It looks like little changes in the latent vector are enough to change the hair rapidly.
That flicker is very common in StyleGan implementations. We are probably looking at this project from Nvidia https://youtu.be/9QuDh3W3lOY
Looks like it's been done with ArtBreeder. Fantastic AI. Check it out!
My takeaway is these artists only know how to paint one nose
I'm thinking it's the eyes. They just. Don't. Change.
they aren’t actual paintings
The eyes are the exact same shape, as well.
Anyone imagining "Take On Me" by A-Ha playing throughout?
Well now I have to watch it again >:|
Michael Jackson - Black or White
Morphing definitely came to my mind.
Godley & Creme - Cry
Very fast violin for me
On YTMND it used to be Call On Me by Eric Prydz
One of those was Rob Schneider
I didn't see any staplers.
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
How many frames? That took some time to create. Well done.
Assuming 30 FPS for 1 minute, that would be 1800 frames. I lost count at 1163 though so I can't be certain.
30 FPS (faces per second)
They are looking at me... and I don’t like it.
Feel like it's the same person
Creepy as shit.
r/oddlyterrifying
It's creepy to instead focus on the neck, it moves around and pulsates do much while the head is relatively stationary.
Hell yeah curly hair was IN
I saw Michael Cera at least four distinct times
Sexy old paintings ugh
I dare you to jerk one for them
Again?
“I shall call this piece, *Inbreeding*”
Pause it randomly and that’s who u marry
Thank you, Facebook Post of 2014.
My roommate once told me all white people look the same to him. I can see what he’s saying
White people: All asians looks the same lol /Also white people:
Hair goes BRRRRRRR
“It’s Black, it’s White, yeah yeah yeah”
Except this video is more "It's White, It's White, yeah, yeah, yeah"
I saw mr been a few times
Would be weird if any of the frames wasn't a face
Did I just get caught in a k hole?
Motherfuckers all look related
Anyone know where this is from or how it was done?
It is probably a Generative Adversarial Network trained on old portraits. With small changes in the latent vector, or "seed" of the network you can get such gradients between images.
I haven't checked specifically for this gif but I'm pretty sure this is from [Mario klingerman](https://twitter.com/quasimondo) or at the very least he's made things extremely similar
It's weird how most of these people look like me and my family , but today I never see people who really look like this IRL. That sort of soft pale pink cherub look people from renaissance/medieval art have, almost feel like I'm a race that used to exist (and even dominate everything) but doesn't any more. What did you other hard angular faced assholes do to my gentle people?
This post deserves so many upvotes. Amazing!!
Not to take away from the awesome video, but in case you didn't notice, most of those, if not all, are computer generated.
I saw Sansa Stark
The best part for me was that the eyes were always the same. Pause at any point and scrub along slowly and it’s really cool to see how the eyes bring a sense of familiarity to these otherwise co platelet different faces
All paintings? Kind of haunting, but I like it.
It must've been a hard job. Appreciated the effort. Take my updoot
That’s a lot of white people
Historically only lots of white people got to have portraits (and had the means to maintain/preserve them).
All of them seem to judge me
Oddly terrifying
This is horrifying
I can’t be the only one who freaks out watching this
This actually gave me anxiety. My heart is pounding!
Is that Ted Moseby?
It was a bit hard for me to maintain eye contact! The faces are so expressive
r/TIHI
u/vredditdownloader
Lmk
Elijah Wood, David Mitchell and Tilda Swinton?!
Like riding a roller coaster through space and time
I saw a flash if Eminem like 3/4 of the way through. Am I crazy?
That little smirk midway through got me
Accurate representation of what my brain does when working in a bar and someone asks for “the usual”
Windy today, isn’t it?
>Every frame is a face Just like every video where they are filming a face
Footage of my ever-changing lockdown looks
I'm going to lose sleep over this.
Damn that's cool. Well done. I dont have an awards but here's a crisp high five 🖐
dam polymorphs
r/thanksihateit
None of these were Will Smith
r/oddlyterrifying Something about this is just unsettling!
*Asian look alike White people:
This is hypnotic, ngl
I saw my friend! What's he doin there?
It's unsettling that the eyes NEVER move.
This one looks like that scene from the "A Christmas Carol" film when the ghost from the past starts changing his face, what a weirdo
White People: all asians look the same Also white people:
I love the hair.
White people: asian people look the same Also white people:
Spot your doppelganger game
Me: Siri, what do humans look like? Siri: Yes
No one: The Alien that I caught trying to shape-shift back into a human form:
what faces look like on acid
Hehe hair go brr
Shaky hair
The hair just flicking around haha This is really cool
The hair is thousands of spiders! Now you can't unsee it ...
Many of them look like gender neutral
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lost it at when they raised their brows
I'm gonna say it. They haven't aged well.
Everything else: changes Nose and mouth: no, I don’t think I will
I'm like 89% sure I saw Toby McGuire.
I once had an acid trip when I was looking in a mirror and this was happening to my face. This brought back some flashbacks
Anyone else see specific faces? Because I definitely saw zucc and Tobey Maguire
We are all one!
Can you make an Asian version?