alt Hacker NewsWe could also leave fake images aside, go outside and try to watch the birds ourselves. Maybe even let the camera inside, just looking with our own eyes. Real nature. No intermediate.
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stetrain • today at 2:24 PM
You can in fact both have an interesting bird-based art display in your home and also go outside and watch birds yourself. Neither precludes the other.
zabriel_goss • today at 2:30 PM
An app like this would be used as augmentation rather than simulation.
world2vec • today at 2:13 PM
I do recommend a decent pair of binoculars and the Merlin Bird ID app.
stronglikedan • today at 2:42 PM
Or both. Why limit yourself?
> Half the point of this project is showing off some amazing public-domain natural-history illustrations. Over 800 cut-outs covering more than 400 species, every one taken from a real plate and hand-curated for this project (no art is AI-generated, though some has been retouched with AI).