What else do people draw on gradient.horse?

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62 points | by spython 5 days ago

7 comments

  • spython 57 minutes ago
    A big thank you to the moderators for giving this link a second chance!

    I'm just now am doing a write-up on how different online communities draw horses differently - and on the amount of penises they draw. Some very visible differences there.

    I also want to share that I'm looking for work. Doing (web)art is fun, but I noticed that I like good food too. If you ever wanted to work with a creative coder, need research into new ways of interaction design or just need some good old UX/UI please do reach out!

  • ykl 37 minutes ago
    One of the horses on a ball is very recognizably a James Baxter[1]!

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baxter_the_Horse

  • gus_massa 3 days ago
    My Pegasus and my Space Invader weren't selected :(

    Anyway, I remember a very good Godzilla and a moonwalking Michael Jackson. I think the post need an additional row for weird.

    • spython 3 days ago
      Oooh, there are just so many horses - more than 600 000 - that it's a tiny chance to actually see your drawings! And there are around 50 000 drawings marked as non-horses - all kind of weirdness - that could be an exhibition on its own..

      Thank you for drawing, a typical drawing is seen more than a hundred times, so your pegasus and space invader were seen and appreciated : )

      • gus_massa 3 days ago
        Nice game. I draw like 10 "horses". The first didn't move the legs because I didn't understand the idea, then I started to add moving things, and then weird things like the space invader. Anyway, mines were not as good as other examples I saw.
      • zaik 1 hour ago
        Is clicking and double clicking some kind of voting system?
        • spython 1 hour ago
          Yes, on the original gradient.horse it was an early experiment in hidden moderation - and it did help hide quite a few of the less kind drawings. Now, as the moderation model trained on the larger corpus works quite well, it's just for fun.
  • quuxplusone 1 hour ago
    One of your snails is clearly a chambered nautilus instead. :)
  • swah 48 minutes ago
    Found the blurrred 67 so funny when I was expecting penises
  • bitwize 14 minutes ago
    "Oh god, what have you done. You have drawn your horse incorrectly. Look what your careless hands have wrought. Select the pistol, and then, select your horse."

    https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05/26/the-unhorse

  • earth-tattoo 36 minutes ago
    No dicks?
    • spython 29 minutes ago
      So many dicks! Roughly 4 percent of all drawings are dicks. With over 600 000 drawings that means.. Twenty five thousand dicks. I thought about including them, but as with all the other transgressive drawings, the only person who enjoys looking at them is the one who drew them.