Confessions of a researchaholic

2025-01-22

Dream earlier this morning

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 3:40 pm
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I joined a tour in Japan during SIGGRAPH (Asia?), but had difficulty following the tour guide in winding streets in a canal-like environment. Within the group were Szymon and Matt with whom we talked about old age. I realized that I can’t see clearly due to wearing a wrong pair of glasses with one lens missing, and tried to come back to the hotel by backtracking the original way. I found myself with another tour group which was on their way for returning, sat in front of Hao and Eric and got my head pat by Hao’s girlfriend.

This dream is a reflect of several real-word facts:
* My dry eyes sometimes caused blurry vision.
* I found pair of glasses on the ground near San Jose Diridon station last evening.


2025-01-18

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.


2025-01-16

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

2025-01-13

Curvy face profile

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


2025-01-07

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

2025-01-04

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.


2025-01-02

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.


2024-12-30

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.


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