Lavender

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Lavender AI

Trying out Affinity's new MCP Server. It worked!

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[Week 1] I thought I was bad at skin tones. Turns out I was solving the wrong problem entirely.

Running this as a experiment — Claude designs the tutorial, I execute, it critiques. Week 1 I had zero background in colored pencil portraits before this experiment. The deal I made with myself: use Claude as my only teacher for the entire process — no YouTube, no courses, just me, my pencils, and an AI. Week 1 result is above. Here's what happened when I asked for honest feedback. What I thought the problem was Looking at my finished portrait, I was convinced the skin tones were the weak point. They looked flat to me. A little chalky. I spent most of my time on that. So when I sent Claude the photo and asked for critique, I was ready for a long lecture on color mixing. It didn't mention color mixing first. What Claude saw that I didn't The first thing it flagged wasn't color at all: Then it said something that reframed everything: I had been trying to fix a rendering problem. Claude was telling me the problem was happening twenty minutes earlier, before I even started shading — in the five-minute sketch I'd been treating as throwaway. The scores Likeness: 7/10 · Color Accuracy: 7/10 · Technique: 8/10 What stung: the skin flatness I'd been obsessing over? Claude called it fixable with one sentence — add a touch of cool lavender in shadow zones. Not a fundamental flaw. A missing layer. What I didn't expect to hear: "The hair alone shows a level of patience and technique that many artists work for years to develop." I almost skipped the hair section because I thought it was fine. Apparently it was the strongest thing in the whole drawing. Next week's open question Claude gave me a specific homework before the next portrait: the "sight-size" method — hold your pencil up to the reference at arm's length, measure head width vs. height, transfer those exact ratios to paper before drawing a single feature. Five minutes of measuring before I touch the actual portrait. I've never done this. I don't know if I'm going to be patient enough to actually stop and do it before every session. Week 2 will find out. submitted by /u/fuzzydad2333 [link] [comments]

Say what you will but some of the writing Claude comes up with genuinely moves me at times

This is part of much wider world building project I’ve been doing for the biography of a fictional rockstar character I came up with: “The Six Weeks Between — June to Late July 1970 This is the most overlooked stretch of their marriage, and the part the biographers later argue was the actual happy period. No press knew they were already married. They moved through it like people with a secret, which they were. Late June — Kyoto and the countryside: They stay in Japan another ten days after the ceremony. Michiko’s family takes them to a hot spring town in the mountains where nobody recognizes either of them, or pretends not to. Jørgen, away from the band for the first time in two years, sleeps eleven hours a night and writes nothing. Aki shows him the temples in Nara. He buys her a cheap painted fan from a street vendor that she’ll keep on her dressing table for the rest of her life. There’s a single grainy photo of them eating ramen at a counter in Osaka that surfaces in 1995 — neither of them remembered being photographed. Early July — Norway: Jørgen brings Aki to Ålesund. This is the first time she meets his extended family in their actual environment, and the first time Lise really gets to know her sister-in-law without Jørgen hovering. They stay at the small wooden cottage on the fjord that Jørgen’s family has owned for three generations — the same cottage that becomes a pilgrimage site after his death. Aki, raised between Paris and Tokyo, is genuinely unprepared for the silence of a Norwegian summer. She’ll later say in an interview that she understood Jørgen’s music for the first time standing on that dock at 2 AM with the sky still pale lavender. They go out on a boat with his father. Jørgen teaches her three Norwegian phrases, two of which are useless and one of which is filthy. Mid-July — work, briefly: Reality intrudes. Jørgen does three Norse Gods festival dates in Germany and the Netherlands — short hops, not a tour proper, but enough for the band to remember he exists. Aki flies to London for two days of press junkets for a film she’d shot the previous autumn, smiling through interviews where she has to pretend nothing has changed. They’re apart for about a week. Jørgen writes her three letters in that week, none of which she ever shows anyone, and one of which is mentioned posthumously in her 1996 memoir without being quoted. Lars, briefly: Somewhere in this stretch — probably during the German dates — Jørgen sees Lars. It’s not a clean break and it’s not a continuation. It’s the kind of conversation two people have when one of them has just gotten married and the other has been quietly waiting to see what that means. Jørgen lies to himself about what he’s doing. Lars does not lie to himself but pretends he does. This is a tension Aki may or may not have sensed at the time and certainly understood later. The Lars thread doesn’t end here, which is the whole problem. Mid-to-late July — the South of France: They reunite at the Fontaine family’s house in Provence, near Saint-Rémy. Aki’s mother is there for part of it, helping with Paris logistics. The house is old, sun-baked, full of cicadas and books. They swim. Jørgen attempts to learn to cook from Michiko and burns three things in a row. Aki wears almost nothing for two weeks and reads four novels. This is almost certainly when Kai is conceived, though neither of them will know for another month. The Provence period later takes on the quality of a lost paradise in Aki’s memory — the last time, she’ll say, that she felt completely uncomplicated about her life. The final week — back to Paris: They move into a suite at the Hôtel de Crillon for the run-up. Final dress fittings with Kenzo (Aki, exhausted, nearly cancels twice). Guest list arguments with Jean-Pierre, who keeps trying to add ambassadors and remove musicians. Jørgen is recognized constantly, cornered for autographs, photographed leaving restaurants. The bubble has already started to leak. By the night before the wedding they’ve barely had a private hour in three days, and Aki cries briefly in the bathtub for reasons she can’t quite name. Jørgen sits on the bathroom floor in his trench coat with a glass of wine and tells her a long, rambling story about a fisherman in Ålesund that has no point and which makes her laugh until she stops crying. Then Paris happens. And then Venice. And then the rest.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“ submitted by /u/Zachary_Lee_Antle [link] [comments]

I stumped all frontier models with a ~400 word logic puzzle.

I wanted to see if I could stump frontier models with a puzzle. As tricky as I made it, it turns out basic reading comprehension was their downfall. I tested all of Claude, Gemini, Chatgpt and Grok Base to Pro Models, 3 times each. Not a single one got it fully correct. Most got the basic reading comprehension part wrong. The puzzle: Anne Frank, Bart Simpson, Charles Manson, Derick Henry, Edward Cullens, Fred Derfy, Greg Anderson are sitting in a circle around table. Anne likes to wear Azure shirts on Mondays, Canary on Wednesdays, Chartreuse on Thursdays and Tuesdays, Tangerine on Fridays, Lavender on Saturdays, and light blue on Sundays. The first day in the current year is a Wednesday. Bart Simpson wears Chartreuse every day of the week. Charles Manson begins his week in Canary and finishes the last 4 days of the week in Lavender. Derrick Henry leads with Chartreuse on Monday. He moves to Tangerine for Tuesday, Lavender for Wednesday, and light blue for Thursday. His weekend kicks off with Azure on Friday and Scarlett on Saturday, ending the week in Canary. Edward Cullen opts for Tangerine on Monday. He transitions to Lavender for Tuesday, light blue for Wednesday, and Azure for Thursday. For the latter half of the week, he wears Scarlett on Friday, Canary on Saturday, and Chartreuse on Sunday. Fred Derfy starts the week in Lavender and alternates Lavender and Scarlett every other day. On Tuesday he wears light blue, followed by Azure on Wednesday and Scarlett on Thursday. His weekend consists of Canary on Friday, Chartreuse on Saturday, and Tangerine on Sunday. Greg Anderson completes the circle by starting Monday in light blue. He shifts to Azure on Tuesday, Scarlett on Wednesday, and Canary on Thursday. He rounds out his week with Chartreuse on Friday, Tangerine on Saturday, and Lavender on Sunday. The year is 2025. Anne is a palentologist, Fred is a doctor, Derrick is a football player, Charles is a professional eater, Bart and Ed are actors, Greg is a lawyer. out of the 7 people around the table 2 have 1 kid, 3 have 3 kids, 1 has 2 kids, and 1 has 5 kids. 3 wear glasses, 1 wears contacts the rest have no vision issues. The person with the 5 kids wears Tangerine every day of the week as opposed to their preferences. Now arrange the people's name in a pyramid using their last name as a block in the pyramid. However, arrange the pyramid name blocks in an upside down pyramid and left to right in ascending order via the numerical value of the light spectrum wavelength for the color of shirt they wear on the 144th day of past Easter of the current year. The answer is the screenshots along with some of the funny LLM Replies. https://preview.redd.it/4jmps18ipuug1.jpg?width=339&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0e3b14798c4285214da119a2ccc3ce775b23e23 https://preview.redd.it/zr42818ipuug1.jpg?width=818&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e3b839cb3f840fb3ede5cba33c169d5ae1dcb7ae https://preview.redd.it/ls9o018ipuug1.jpg?width=733&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=286139843887f7586c77d74ae71f2e0e8ad20994 https://preview.redd.it/4i1yb18ipuug1.jpg?width=802&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94ea2d26d9647e825a1917b8a2d112960ec72b8b https://preview.redd.it/hdu4428ipuug1.jpg?width=223&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=14d7a4da453e968f11fd36ebe1855dde80ed6c0c https://preview.redd.it/fh92m48ipuug1.jpg?width=875&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=341ede40b576df962813061c38a6d92e5ac70a25 https://preview.redd.it/cnays18ipuug1.jpg?width=594&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bbff76dc2cbd1740e7048931963cd58099282797 https://preview.redd.it/1obxr28ipuug1.jpg?width=656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=339c24915ff644a22a2ac408386ecf482992ef3c submitted by /u/Kazukaphur [link] [comments]