from Hacker News

AI helps ID paint chemistry of Berlin Wall murals

by luckydata on 12/12/24, 5:38 PM with 10 comments

  • by punk_coder on 12/17/24, 2:35 AM

    I was at university in Munich in ‘89 when the wall came down. My roommate was from Berlin. We didn’t make it to the evening when the wall came down, but went there a few days later. We got to use a pick-axe to get our own chunks of wall and a few for other classmates. I still have my chunk all these years later. Sadly my chunk is about 85% white paint with a couple other colors around the edges. I have photos of the wall before it came down from visits as even though I am American my dad was in the Army, and I was born in Augsburg and lived in a few other cities over the years.
  • by Vampiero on 12/16/24, 6:38 PM

    Wonder how long it takes before someone comes up with an AI to identify graffiti artists and cluster their artworks. It would be trivial to extract their activity map then.
  • by karim79 on 12/16/24, 8:45 PM

    When I looked at the title I imagined it was an AI plugin for idtech 5 for the next Wolfenstein game. Though I suppose the Berlin wall wouldn't have been a thing at all if Wolfenstein's Nazis had made it that far.