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by driftwheeler 3337 days ago
Second time posting this. Thanks to everyone who mailed us to report problems. The clustering is fixed and works extremely well now! There's a helpful error message when the firewall at work or on public wifi is dropping Melondream's UDP packets. (Melondream communicates via UDP fountain codes.)

We're looking for someone who's interested in commercializing this technology. The user experience is unprecedented. Right?

Melondream http://driftwheeler.com/

Use server ID "soft1"

Watch random images ("WANDER"). When you like one, see the rest of the photoset on repeat ("TRANCE"). To get more of some detail-- a pose, a hairstyle, some scenery-- press that part of the image ("DREAM").

For example, if you see a woman in panties, press the panties to see more girls wearing panties. If you like a woman's face, press her face to see similar faces. If you like a smile, press it to see more. If want more beach scenes, press the sand and water. If you want to see more girls in the woods, press the greenery. If you like to see girls posing on wooden chairs, press the chair. And so on.

This is a solution to the problem of large-scale unsupervised image clustering.

Enjoy!

1 comments

Tried to install on android emulator, works deadly slow, i can't understand what's the benefit as porn consumer for me. Make webapp, running fast enough, so i at least can use it...
Melondream is an app written in golang (using gomobile). It's almost entirely native code, with a small amount of java Android framework on top. Not clear how to translate such a thing into a webapp.

Surely you can imagine applications beyond pornography! The "soft1" server has tens of thousands of photos, indexed by content. Each photo has a web link (the VISIT button).

As for erotica, you can for example search this huge catalog of nudes by genital (vulva) structure. Find one you like, then see who it's attached to. Yes it's depraved, but...

Or faces. Search for faces with a feature you like.