Confessions of a researchaholic

January 18, 2025

Sparkling wine bottles

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:31 pm
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Walked by this liquor store in TPE terminal 2 and found interesting these wine bottles as lampshades.


January 16, 2025

Train station bench sleeper

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:52 am
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What to do with about 10 minutes before the train arrived?

Adding some colors, even just rough regions, can greatly enhance the visual appeal of a sketch.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/217024435/PortraitsMotoGStylus2025/modules/1236093195

January 13, 2025

Curvy face profile

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:27 pm
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An exercise of vector curves.


January 7, 2025

Community piano

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 7:52 pm
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Saw and photographed this cute community piano on September 24 2024 and finally got a chance to add some motion graphics to it.


https://www.behance.net/gallery/216256361/CommunityPiano

January 4, 2025

Painting style LoRA experiment

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 2:38 pm
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Watercolor painting and pencil sketching style experiments (conducted during company shutdown with some spare time and compute).

  1. Download tens of art works from my dad’s FB page.
  2. Train a LoRA over this ink style model.
  3. Generate outputs via prompts similar to the painting titles from the aforementioned FB page.

A few results look interesting while most are uncanny or boring.
My dad commented that AI cannot replace human artists.


January 2, 2025

Dinner after train 666

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 8:04 pm
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At the departing station for their evening train, he thought about ordering a meal box, but she preferred going for a restaurant at the destination station.

Upon arrival her original choice had a 20-minute wait, so they went to a nearby alternative.
It was slightly passing his usual dinner time, so he lost patience waiting for the food.
She looked flustered, but the food arrived soon after.


https://www.behance.net/gallery/215937081/SoftTrainNumber

Funeral

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 2:47 pm
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A funeral is more for the living to bound than for the dead to transition.

The start of the year at an isolated place.

It is the morgue’s interest to have a long and elaborate funeral.

3-part incantation by 3 monks for 3 hours.
If a spirit keeps attaching to me after the funeral, will it show up behind me during a virtual conference call?

Many family members spent a lot of time chatting, while some sat there staring blank.


December 30, 2024

Flipped middle toe

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:15 pm
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Draw from an earlier dream partially reflecting a jammed toe in reality.


December 16, 2024

Facial “lotion”

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:42 pm
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The facial “lotion” that I have been applying in the past fortnight turned out to be cleansing gel.


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