Okay, so check this out, I’m gonna walk you through this thing I’ve been messing with, right? It’s all about, uh, “big model tits”, but before you jump to conclusions, let me explain what I actually did, alright?
First off, I stumbled upon this dataset online, right? It’s got tons of images of different, like, architectural models, you know, the kind architects use. And get this, a lot of ’em are these huge, sprawling cityscapes. So naturally, my dumb ass was like, “Big models… heh.”
Anyway, I had this idea to train an AI to generate its own architectural designs. Started by grabbing that dataset, cleaned it up a bit – removing the blurry images and ones with weird angles. It was a pain in the ass, honestly.
Then came the fun part, or so I thought. I decided to use a GAN, Generative Adversarial Network, because everyone’s saying it’s the best for image generation. Spent a whole week just trying to get the damn thing to run without crashing. Python libraries, CUDA versions, it was a nightmare. But finally, I got it working.
I fed the GAN the cleaned-up dataset, and let it run. For hours. The initial results were… let’s just say not pretty. It looked like a bunch of mashed-up pixels vomited onto the screen. Total garbage.
I tweaked the parameters, changed the learning rate, messed with the layers of the network. Nothing. Still looked like abstract art gone wrong. At this point, I was ready to throw my computer out the window.
But, I’m stubborn, see? I read a bunch of research papers, watched a ton of tutorials, and finally figured out that my dataset wasn’t diverse enough. All the images were of similar angles and lighting. So, I went back online, scraped a bunch more images from different sources, making sure there was more variation.
Ran the GAN again, and BAM! It was still kinda rough, but you could actually see the beginnings of building shapes. There were towers, bridges, weird sci-fi looking stuff. It was progress! Not exactly what I imagined, but progress nonetheless.
I spent another couple of weeks refining the model, adding more data, tweaking the parameters. Slowly, but surely, the generated images started looking more and more realistic. They weren’t perfect, mind you. Still had some weird artifacts and inconsistencies. But hey, it was a computer dreaming up buildings, what do you expect?
The final result? Well, I got a bunch of images of these huge, intricate architectural models, imagined by an AI. Some looked like futuristic cities, others like sprawling megastructures. It was pretty cool, even if the initial reason I started this whole thing was kinda dumb.
So yeah, that’s my “big model tits” story. It’s not what you think, I promise. Just me messing around with AI and architecture, with a dash of juvenile humor.
