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Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Re: Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Post by hwayne »

cubano wrote: post #19

Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this? I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled as what to do to actually see, or even know what's going on, what the system is producing. Very frustrating.

Ping me on twitter or email? Both should be in the colab notebook.

Re: Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Post by hwayne »

hwayne wrote: post #15
Mizza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anybody know of the best practice for creating large images (ex 3840x2160) on a single GPU (ex a 2080/3080)? I played with stitching some years ago when all of this stuff was still in its infancy, but wasn't super thrilled with the results as I ended up with seams, now I'm wondering if a common practice has emerged as the techniques have evolved.

What you could try doing is use a notebook that lets you start with an initial image [1], chunk that image, and generate a an image for each chunk. It wouldn't be unified, but it could come out interesting. To make bigger images, I'm currently making composites out of multiple smaller prompts, like gradients or chessboards.

Hot dang I forgot to actually add in the link and now it's too late to edit so here it is

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wkF67ThUz37T2_oPIuS...

Re: Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Post by hwayne »

yeldarb wrote: post #24

I recently wrote up some of my experiments, observations, and findings with VQGAN+CLIP (the models folks have been using to do this AI Art recently) here: https://blog.roboflow.com/ai-generated-art/

> I found myself wanting to more actively steer. Changing the prompt in the middle of a generation to "take a right turn" would be interesting to experiment with.

I've tried this! You get weird stuff. I think of it like glitch art. One idea I want to try is directly fiddling with the tensors mid-run, like rotating it along one axis or reorder columns or something. I think you could get really interesting stuff that way

Re: Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Post by dhosek »

cubano wrote: post #19

Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this? I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled as what to do to actually see, or even know what's going on, what the system is producing. Very frustrating.

I missed the key step at first of going to the Runtime menu at the top of the page and selecting "Run All" there.

Re: Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator

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Post by ljvmiranda »

hwayne wrote: post #8
minimaxir wrote: post #6

See also my notebook (which was released after the OP's notebook and I was not aware of it until after I completed mine) from the same source which focuses on more streamlining and more deterministic output by using icon-based input/target images: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wkF67ThUz37T2_oPIuS...

I think we're in a "lightbulb" moment: the tech has gotten good and convenient enough that a lot of people are having the same ideas. I mean, heck, I don't know anything about AI or art and I was still able to make my notebook. There's also been a bunch of paid solutions submitted to HN, too, as people try to find ways to build products off this. The great thing is that the space is big and crazy enough that even if…

I also wrote an explainer for VQGAN here: https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqg... to coincide with the growing interest in these models
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