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This is pretty cool!

If the author is here. Is there a way to try it myself?

The Demo[0] link is broken and the GH repo is empty[1].

[0] https://huggingface.co/spaces/SemanticTypography/Word-As-Ima...

[1] https://github.com/WordAsImage/Word-As-Image



Hmmm yes, I wonder if this project was discovered/shared here before it was really ready to be published.

Very excited for the code/demo when they're ready!


The paper is attributed to "Anonymous Authors" and the GitHub has an image saying "comming soon" [sic] added five days ago. Of course the image is generated using this technique, but it's anyone's guess what it represents, a person sitting for meditation?

This is pretty cool, but also spooky. For example it seems like this has good commercial promise, as well as a serious amount of work invested, very strange that there's no person or company taking credit yet.

(edited to add, I see now that "comming soon" uses the "o" from their "Ashtanga Yoga" example)


There is a likely innocent explanation: authors are required to stay anonymous while an academic paper is being peer reviewed.


Yes, their names are listed here:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01818




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