Minium learns to play with ‘Quick, Draw!’

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This little video shows Minium drawing a penguin in Google AI experiment ‘Quick, Draw!’:

Minium will use some auxiliary sites to “learn” how to draw a penguin:

First, it searches for line drawing images in Google images and picks the first one
It uses that image to get its contours using Contour by José Manuel Pérez
That service converts an image into SVG with polyline elements, from which Minium can easily extract all lines and corresponding points
Minium then simplifies lines so that they have less points and therefore are quickier to draw. For that, it uses the javascript library Simplify.js by Vladimir Agafonkin
Minium can now go back into ‘Quick, Draw’ and draw points using mouse interactions with offsets based on line points