Comments on: This... is my mastapiece. This is the one that they'll rememba me for.

This... is my mastapiece. This is the one that they'll rememba me for.

Rhaomi — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:20:03 -0800

Clone-a Lisa: Can you paint a copy of the Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? "Anything over 80% is good, 85%+ very good, and 90% may be possible if you're extremely fast and accurate." [via mefi projects]

Behind-the-scenes Mastodon thread Prior art Also prior art Get on my level Git gud

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:28:41 -0800

What hath Abehammerb wrought? Nothing good, I assure you. This if fun!

By: showbiz_liz

showbiz_liz — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:30:28 -0800

Good lord. 54% and I'm lucky to have it, I think...

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:33:48 -0800

Note that playing this game carries the Legal Obligation to post your result in the thread.

By: zompist

zompist — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:35:06 -0800

Nailed it

By: malevolent

malevolent — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:35:25 -0800

Most important tip: get lots of paint down! All of the Mona Lisa is darker than the initial white state.

By: chavenet

chavenet — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:47:28 -0800

Mona Lisa Overwrite

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:48:47 -0800

I love it and want a tshirt.

By: chavenet

chavenet — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:48:56 -0800

I'm going to have some toast while we all consider this (orange marmalade on one slice, peanut butter on the other) That's a 76% Mona Lisa at the very least!

By: joeyh

joeyh — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:52:17 -0800

67%

By: criticalyeast

criticalyeast — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:54:05 -0800

97%

By: notyou

notyou — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:09:53 -0800

Haha. That was fun. Given I have no aptitude for drawing or painting and the like, the 27.8% it gave me seems generous. (I'd link, but that falls into the category of "and the like.")

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:12:38 -0800

66.8%

By: Heywood Mogroot III

Heywood Mogroot III — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:17:10 -0800

"Prior Art" is a great name for this app : )

By: Hatashran

Hatashran — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:25:05 -0800

Am I missing something, or is there really no way to either compare or switch between my masterpiece and the original?

By: chrominance

chrominance — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:27:00 -0800

56.7%

By: glonous keming

glonous keming — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:40:18 -0800

> is there really no way to either compare or switch between my masterpiece and the original? they're the same picture

By: malevolent

malevolent — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:42:48 -0800

"Am I missing something, or is there really no way to either compare or switch between my masterpiece and the original?" Tomorrow I'll try making one of the end screens fade between the original & your pic, or possibly offer a slider.

By: lookoutbelow

lookoutbelow — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:44:12 -0800

You can see the original by pressing the icon at the top while you're painting. You can do pretty well by covering the bottom 85% or so completely with the darkest colour.

By: surlyben

surlyben — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:45:49 -0800

A naive Rothko approach gets 70.2% .

By: Abehammerb Lincoln

Abehammerb Lincoln — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:54:31 -0800

Tomorrow I'll try making one of the end screens fade between the original & your pic, or possibly offer a slider. NOOOO! The joy is in having to remember and then making an abomination.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:16:38 -0800

99%

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:28:44 -0800

58%

By: treepour

treepour — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:51:10 -0800

This is delightful! I also appreciate the technical details! Pony request -- I know we're posting attempts in this thread, but it would be amazing to have a gallery on the site. Again, very much a pony request. This is awesome as is!

By: treepour

treepour — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:59:02 -0800

55.3%. I think I very much captured the enigmatic smile as well as the rich landscape behind her

By: May Kasahara

May Kasahara — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:21:02 -0800

58.1%. Thanks, art school education!

By: glonous keming

glonous keming — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:32:05 -0800

you came up with the name first didn't you

By: jenfullmoon

jenfullmoon — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:48:23 -0800

On a related note, I saw a Mona Lisa this weekend in the county fair, except it had been turned into Snoop Dogg and was made out of Diamond Dots. My computer is refusing to upload pics or I'd share this, but it's certainly....something.

By: ricochet biscuit

ricochet biscuit — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:14:44 -0800

At least one mefite has done it faster.

By: glonous keming

glonous keming — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:25:29 -0800

i thought of one: Gauguin In Sixty Seconds

By: Grumpy old geek

Grumpy old geek — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:42:07 -0800

59.7% I can't draw a straight line with a ruler.

By: chasles

chasles — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:55:31 -0800

Every every every every everyone draws a stupid smiley face on it. I am everyone. I laughed for 10 minutes. My wife called me an idiot (on par) and then drew nearly a pixel accurate version of my smiley face. :)

By: jazon

jazon — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 18:58:30 -0800

50%

By: heyho

heyho — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:02:39 -0800

I am getting so much unexpected joy from this thread.

By: flug

flug — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:22:21 -0800

70%

By: Mchelly

Mchelly — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:30:35 -0800

I love this!!! 77.5%! I dunno maybe she looks better with a less elusive smile.

By: y2karl

y2karl — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:36:10 -0800

Fauxna Lisa, Fauxna Lisa They have named you You're so unlike The lady with the mystic smile Is it only 'cause you're homely they have blamed you? For that Fuaxna Lisa Shruggie in your smile?

By: Superilla

Superilla — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:30:22 -0800

75.3%. You need to think like a computer, not a human.

By: thivaia

thivaia — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 20:56:10 -0800

I was able to get as high as 39.6% but honestly I think the 23.6% is the better attempt.

By: gottabefunky

gottabefunky — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:34:44 -0800

For the love of god, man, give us 90 seconds at least

By: flabdablet

flabdablet — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:45:34 -0800

Not sure I've really captured her essence

By: fnerg

fnerg — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 23:50:54 -0800

Nice.

By: Zumbador

Zumbador — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 01:17:32 -0800

73% This is fun!

By: tabbyMage

tabbyMage — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 01:37:07 -0800

80.1% (after a good bit of trial and error). Really fun to play hotter-or-colder with the accuracy readout in the upper right corner.

By: TWinbrook8

TWinbrook8 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 04:24:33 -0800

I feel like I'm not getting enough credit for including the blue water in the background and the bits of red.

By: ellerhodes

ellerhodes — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:02:22 -0800

This is really fun and funny. Thank you for sharing. Just what I needed!

By: crocomancer

crocomancer — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 06:42:28 -0800

64.5%

By: The_Vegetables

The_Vegetables — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 07:46:01 -0800

I only got to 23%, but I could do better if it was cake.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:01:32 -0800

Looking forward to malevolent doing a wisdom-of-crowds-style averaging of all the results and getting something akin to this.

By: sardonyx

sardonyx — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:12:52 -0800

I didn't save my results but I think I got something like five per cent. My mistake? Not painting but actually drawing/sketching/outlining the figure (or an approximation thereof). So don't do that if you want a better score.

By: malevolent

malevolent — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:15:17 -0800

As promised, I've added a comparison slider to one of the end screens. You can also use keyboard controls: 1-8 for colours, QWE brushes, SPACE to toggle original.

By: xorry

xorry — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:46:34 -0800

26.3%, but I think it has charm

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:28:21 -0800

malevolent, I have to ask... did you think of the basic concept first, or the name?

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:30:20 -0800

(the name is soooo good is why I'm asking)

By: malevolent

malevolent — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:40:32 -0800

"malevolent, I have to ask... did you think of the basic concept first, or the name?" The concept is one I've kicked around for years, including a rough idea of how the scoring could work. On Twitter & Mastodon I asked for name suggestions and someone replied with that one.

By: severalbees

severalbees — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:48:29 -0800

Jonah Warren's Sloppy Forgeries is relevant prior art as well! Similar gameplay, but two-player head-to-head - sadly not available publicly (dunno if it ever will be) but it's great fun at events.

By: of strange foe

of strange foe — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:12:11 -0800

I forgot to save but it was 49.3%.

By: Wetterschneider

Wetterschneider — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:28:05 -0800

81%

By: gelfin

gelfin — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:17:43 -0800

After several tries, because this is really addictive, this is about the best I managed, at just shy of 83%. This is actually a fantastic art exercise. I'd love to see a version with different source paintings and configurable (within reason) time.

By: obfuscation

obfuscation — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:17:14 -0800

Fun! I am very bad at this.

By: pwnguin

pwnguin — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 01:06:28 -0800

Gauguin In Sixty Seconds Persistence From Memory Hieronymus Botch

By: zippy

zippy — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:04:34 -0800

The Draft of the Medusa

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:26:05 -0800

Judith Sketching Holofernes

By: Mchelly

Mchelly — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:31:18 -0800

Nude Designing a Staircase

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 09:46:13 -0800

Ce n'est pas Ce n'est pas une pipe

By: TWinbrook8

TWinbrook8 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:36:41 -0800

Manageable Mondrian, gives us all a chance

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:24:05 -0800

Saturn Devouring His Crayons

By: duien

duien — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 13:52:09 -0800

On my first attempt, I accidentally started when trying to view the paining again, and it turns out I don't really know what the Mona Lisa looks like beyond "a seated portrait". A second attempt after actually looking at where the colors go in the paining produced a surprisingly satisfying composition -- only 72% but I feel much better about it. I really wish the image download included the frame. My masterpiece deserves a fitting frame. Also, drawing on a trackpad is very awkward.