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Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by persedes on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:22PM (#48392043)
Very cool and love the animation, but does not seem to work well with beards :D
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:44PM (#48392238)
Thanks, Persedes! You're right, beards and hats are tricky. I haven't found a reliable way to handle them yet. If you have any ideas on how to solve this, I'd love to hear them. Contributions and PRs are always welcome: https://github.com/pearmini/bio-glyph
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by pixel_popping on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:52AM (#48395528)
You should fork it into `bio-glyph-bear-enhanced`
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by luckykiddie on Thursday June 04, 2026 @01:59AM (#48394589)
cool and nice site, but it doesn't look like me
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by tombylin on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:53AM (#48395013)
Hey, after I tried it, I couldn't generate my avatar and got the message 'Failed to load models: Failed to fetch'
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by tombylin on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:54AM (#48395020)
Is it related to my network? It doesn't seem to be quite the case
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:57AM (#48399672)
Hi Tommylin, sorry to hear that. Is it working now?
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by tombylin on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:48AM (#48400414)
No problem anymore~ Not bad! It might be because of an error I encountered during my trial on Windows this afternoon, although I don't know the cause. That evening, I even replied with my personal MacBook, and it was already fine!
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:50PM (#48401300)
Glad to hear that! Hope you enjoy it!
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by sentacraft on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:20AM (#48399066)
I was truly impressed by this archive page. It looks like a piece of art that I could stop and contemplate for a long time.
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:56AM (#48399659)
Thank you so much! That means a lot to me. I was hoping the archive would feel like a collective artwork created by everyone who participated!
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:08PM (#48405897)
By the way, I have another project called Name2Tree, which transforms your name into a unique, deterministic tree. It also features an archive page that you might enjoy exploring. If you're interested, check it out here:

https://tree.bairui.dev/

Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by sakuraiben on Thursday June 04, 2026 @05:40PM (#48404999)
would love to see more lines on my face
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:18PM (#48405400)
Lol, what's in your mind? sakuraiben!
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:33PM (#48406570)
I just added a tiny database to the project, so generated faces can now be added to the community archive! Feel free to contribute yours!

https://bio.bairui.dev/

Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by joey9prints on Friday June 05, 2026 @01:21AM (#48408301)
Cool idea, but my image came out a bit generic, any way to make it more detailed? For inspiration, you might want to reference Brooklyn based artist Paul Richard, he does incredible single line drip work. It might help to improve your ai model. Also, do you store / keep my image? just curious. :)
Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:46AM (#48411661)
Thanks, joey9prints!

Yes, it's a bit generic right now, and there's definitely room for improvement. I just checked out Paul Richard's work—it looks amazing and highly relevant.

Also, by default, I don't store either the original image or the generated result. The generated image is only saved if you explicitly click "Archive," and you can delete it whenever you'd like.

Re:Show HN: Bio Glyph – Turn Your Face into a One-Line Drawing by subairui on Friday June 05, 2026 @07:38PM (#48419783)
I just added tooltips on Generate and Add to Archive so it’s clear your camera image isn’t stored, and only the line drawing is saved if you choose to archive it. Thanks for the great feedback again!