The Automated Fake Album Project

https://fakealbum.interviewstreet.com/facemash/

by rvivek • 14 years ago

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mahler• 14 years ago

This should really be choosing between two albums generated from the same (artist name, title, cover art), rather than completely different configurations.

I'm finding it difficult to judge fairly when the art, title and album name are different.

mikeinterviewst• 14 years ago

That was how we originally built it, but we found it less fun to rate in testing compared to this version. Hopefully the increased votes-per-person outweigh the loss of fidelity.

BlackJack• 14 years ago

I think you guys should've just shown one picture at a time and allowed people to upvote or downvote it.

scottkrager• 14 years ago

Nice URL naming..../facemash

dokidoki• 14 years ago

I made this generator a couple of years ago... http://www.makemyalbumcover.com/

twelvechairs• 14 years ago

The biggest problem is font colours that are unreadable on the background. Obviously that must be an algorithm-too-far for most of the competitors.

sudowork• 14 years ago

Unfortunately, for our team, we had to revert to a version of our generator that was about 5 hours old due to a issue with one of the library dependencies. We didn't catch this until last minute, so basically all of our low-level pixel analysis got thrown out the window.

millzlane• 14 years ago

Reminds me of the Album cover generator. http://albums.demozoo.org/

haclifford• 14 years ago

There's bias introduced based on the visual appearance, some of the fonts used are terrible - and (as mentioned) the contrast.

Groxx• 14 years ago

Can't... choose...! http://cl.ly/3L0d0F1A0r0E3z231R0X

Fun contest - I'd love to see the winners when this is all over :)

unhappyhippie• 14 years ago

I saw this "generate album art 'algorithm' " on a 4chan thread three years ago when I used to frequent there. Brings back memories.

ashovlin• 14 years ago

It appears possible to compare two album covers that were created by the same generator (some of them have pretty distinct styles). Not sure if this was considered, or how it factors into scoring.

tylermenezes2• 14 years ago

I was thinking the same thing - I got a lot of them in a row. If they're using standard techniques for ranking win/loss competitions, they're artificially decreasing the sigma (not entirely correct but, think of it as a margin of error) for no reason.

Funny, a website based on giving out coding problems didn't realize that coding bug. Then again, I've experienced tons of bugs when I was playing with their main software, so I'm not surprised.

azylman• 14 years ago

As someone who competed in this contest, that wouldn't be the only bug. There was a lot of bugs in the submission/grading process - so much so that my team got frustrated enough to leave early.

140dbs• 14 years ago

This is my favorite so far...

http://imgur.com/XY6Uj

meatsock• 14 years ago

as someone who finds it easier to produce sounds than to give them useful and meaningful names after the fact, i love this. if i found a version that can deterministically generate a full ID3 tag of generated info given any mp3 input, i'd use it daily to fight the scourge of files named lkajf_39_q.mp3 in my output bin.

The Automated Fake Album Project

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