Meet Mr & Ms Hive

almost 4 years ago (Edited)

Don't blame me! It's all @kalemandra's fault. She gave me the idea with one of her latest posts in which she was talking about Artbreeder, a new type of creative tool.

Of course, I've got intrigued and jumped to the site right away to see what can I do with it. After some browsing around for some while, playing, testing and tweaking with some other images, the idea crossed my mind.

Why not to try to create Mr & Ms Hive?
And here they are!

Meet Mr & Ms Hive

Mr & Ms Hive

But, how did I came up with those two faces?!

As a starting point image (believe it or not), I used Hive logo which uploaded there turned out a bit blurry and somewhat messed up, but still very recognizable.

Then I picked different types of faces available there and started mixing them. Creation of Mr Hive was the hardest as at first he was too fat, serious, strict or even somewhat angry for my taste.

So, I was struggling back and forth, adding and removing faces, mixing them, etc. until I finally made him smile.

For his creation I used at least ten different male's images, if not 15 or even more, that AI software on the site finally turned into the face I would accept as Mr Hive.

Here is the GIF of the process, although not that sharp as I had to resize and convert the original video I downloaded from the site. Therefore, the gif losts lots of video's original resolution.

With Ms Hive, I was a bit smarter as I already learned some tricks and the tool's possibilities during Mr Hive creation.

Basically, the process of Ms Hive creation was the same as Mr Hive's. I started with the same uploaded Hive logo and kept adding and mixing female faces until I got the result that was somewhat satisfying to me.

For the same reasons as with the Mr Hive GIF creation, the resolution of the Ms Hive GIF is not the best either, but you'll still be able to see the process.

In contrary to GIFs' outcome of both faces, I am quite satisfied with their face images that I downloaded from the site. They are quite clear and sharp. See them for yourself.

Mr Hive

Ms Hive

Another interesting thought

While creating those two characters, I was thinking how the creation of Hive blockchain and transition from Steem to Hive, in fact, wasn't the effort of just one person, but many heads that came together and made this happen.

In that sense, I was wondering with what kind of character face we would come up with, if we put inside that AI creative tool the images of their true faces.

This idea is still tickling me a lot! 😉 😁

What do you say???

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@nesomi -3

almost 4 years ago (Edited)

Dear member of HIVE,

Some whales had asked me to stop with the many messages as they had written to @pfunk to tell him to support me and stop destroying the account. I have stuck to it and stopped. He has now sent out more downvotes and from now on the goal is to comment on every post published on HIVE. We have about 300 HIVE accounts that can be used alternately and will create new accounts daily.

I'm sorry for the automated comments. But we're not being given another opportunity to point out our problem.

For the time being, this news will only be published for one hour, should the proceedings against us be stopped and the donations replaced, we will stop. Otherwise this message will be placed under every post published on HIVE via hundreds of accounts.

Are you sure you really want to post here?

For example, we have a small account here that belongs to a social club in Germany. Donations were collected here, and every month a few dollars were collected.

But since ONE person - the witness at HIVE called @Pfunk (a witness is actually someone who is supposed to represent the members) has problems with the founder of the social organisation, he makes sure that all donations are deducted from the small account. Others who are also in favour of the account are also penalised, and all income is also taken away.

If you publish here, make sure that you only publish what is of benefit to the owners of the assets on HIVE. You must never express your own opinion or criticize someone who is a witness or owner of power.

You will soon find out that you only earn a few cents here. Others, however, sometimes enrich themselves extremely. Look around, you'll soon find that some people get 2 or even 3-digit $ sums for small contributions, but you don't even get 50 cents.

Now that the account has become basically unusable for us, we have made it our mission to inform all new members about what to expect here in the block chain.

There is no way to fight against the rulers of HIVE. One can only inform others and especially new members.

If you want to see how they take away donations for the association, you can see this here https://beeme.icu/?account=nesomi

If you ever want to find out what this is all about, you can do that:
https://peakd.com/deutsch/@nesomi/ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs-ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs-ve-the-blockchain-of-coldhearts-and-egomaniacs

and

https://peakd.com/deutsch/@nesomi/abuse of power-and-love-the-hive-witnesses radio or abuse of power-and-love-the-hive-witnesses radio

As soon as the downvotes on our account stop and the destroyed donations have been replaced, these comments will be discontinued.

If this action doesn't work, we will comment on less than 1000 newly published articles with this text every day.

Unfortunately we have no other possibility to take action against such behaviour. If you really should stay here you will soon realize that there is no other way to fight injustice than with many messages.

Anyone who has problems with a witness on HIVE I am happy to give the program that automatically distributes hundreds or even thousands of comments.

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