gradient-descent-for-a-face
Blobs of colour trained by gradient descent into a photo, entirely in code. Then turned in 3D.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 89 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Fitting colored blobs to an image with gradient descent and rendering in 3D is a self-contained numerical demo that a solo builder can code with a graphics library.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1014 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #461 of 1015 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 376 days after the earliest competitor.
- impasto · github · 2026-11-03 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- gate3dgen · github · 2026-10-21 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- mesh-gradient-generation · github · 2026-10-24 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search · hn · 2026-06-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A simple algorithm for shifting solid-color image backgrounds (WASM) · hn · 2026-01-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- language-guided-lut · github · 2026-11-06 · 49 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Reimplementing PyTorch from scratch (MLP, CNN) to learn the internals · hn · 2026-02-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- genpark-adamw-decoupled-weight-decay-skill · github · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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