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Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

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The message on the page: It's a busy day! There are currently 512 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open! Estimated wait time: 7 hours, 7 minutes

1h later it’s:

> It's a busy day! There are currently 1073 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open!

> Estimated wait time: 14 hours, 54 minutes

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#42
post #37

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

This comment make me sad. Replacing human creativity with "ai" is like we've reached the peak so no need to put any effort into life anymore..

running a GIMP script is hardly the opposite

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#44
Creating a watercolor filter which can be applied to an image dragged into a website element is on my list of Fun Things To Do Over The Holidays - but having previously looked at the the mechanics that need to feed into the filter ... well it looks like I'd be jumping down a rabbit hole of complex maths and generative art approaches[1][2]. It's a complex problem space and I'm not sure I have the brain power and tenacity to do a good job of it.

[1] - Tyler Hobbs (2017) - a guide to simulating watercolor paint with generative art - https://tylerxhobbs.com/essays/2017/a-generative-approach-to...

[2] - Curtis|Anderson|Seims|Fleischery|Salesin (undated) - Computer-Generated Watercolor - https://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/watercolor/paper_sm...

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#45
post #40

I hope the result is worth the wait! > There are currently 1069 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open! > Estimated wait time: 14 hours, 51 minutes

Currently:

>There are currently 1200 people in front of you. Please keep this tab open!

>Estimated wait time: 16 hours, 40 minutes

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#46

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

Very interesting, I will look into this! Thanks!

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#47
post #16

Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.

It says I should keep that tab open for the next 17 hours. What happens if I still close it?

Congrats for the unexpected success :)

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#48

It sounds like your app turns photos into a watercolor style image? You can definitely do this faster with Stable Diffusion (~6s per image before optimization). Here's how I would approach it: train a dreambooth model on watercolor style images, then run image-to-image using that model. For examples of what dreambooth models can do see: https://synapticpaint.com/dreambooth/info/ (sample images here generated using a…

Stable Diffusion on beefy hardware is faster than OPs process in OPs docker container, but I don't think we can judge from this that OP uses a slower process. For all we know this is running on the equivalent of a $10 Digital Ocean droplet.

Currently running on a t3.medium AWS EC2 instance! (My max budget is currently $50/month since I get that much in AWS credits each month for building an Alexa skill a few years back.)

Re: Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

#49
post #47
post #16

Sorry all for the long wait times! Was not expecting much interest. At the very least, I need to look into removing photos from the queue when people exit the page.

It says I should keep that tab open for the next 17 hours. What happens if I still close it? Congrats for the unexpected success :)

Unfortunately nothing at the moment! Currently working on removing images from the queue if the user has left the page (which I'm guessing is the case for about 99% of the current queue).
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