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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by russsamora on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:53PM (#44925073)
There was no AI used on this website!
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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by ctenb on Saturday August 16, 2025 @03:31PM (#44926284)
Source?
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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by masfuerte on Saturday August 16, 2025 @03:34PM (#44926298)
He's one of the three named authors on the article. I'd be interested to know how the onion text was made.
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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by re on Saturday August 16, 2025 @03:59PM (#44926467)
Looks like the font predates this article:

https://handmadefont.com/shop/oniotype-font/

https://kottke.org/25/08/the-red-onion-font

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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by bowsamic on Sunday August 17, 2025 @01:13AM (#44929051)
The M in that font is not really suitable for professional use
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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by ziml77 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:03PM (#44934006)
I thought you must be exaggerating, but then I looked... And yeah, that M needs some work to make it not look like a woman bending over.
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Re:Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way by hashmap on Monday August 18, 2025 @12:23PM (#44942380)
Well, so much for that sentiment! Those onion letters definitely struck me as the original "look we can make chairs out of avocados" use case for dall-e. I guess it's not surprising that good looking AI images turn out to not be AI images in the first place.
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