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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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I'm going to go against the grain here. If this were my project I would try to spin up render machines dynamically in response to load. (Similarly to how gitlab CI runners can be spun up automatically, for instance.) There is no need to replace a working technology stack to make it faster. 1 minute is a reasonable wait time, and if your wait time goes over 5 minutes, then spin up some more workers. Plus we have to be…

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

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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..

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

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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.

How is the image processing being done? In broad strokes, what're you doing with the Python API?

Do water color artists use broad strokes?

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

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post #25
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.

I wouldn't even let people add new images to the queue if the wait period is over, say, 10 minutes.

Not a bad idea!

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

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post #49
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Fixed! Now abandoning the tab will remove the image from the queue.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is the image processing being done? In broad strokes, what're you doing with the Python API?

Do water color artists use broad strokes?

Ho ho. As far as I know, you can make a wash with a broad brush.

Watercolour is a nice way to paint blurry things like oceans and clouds, which involves broad strokes.

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

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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..

Human creativity isn't being replaced; new layers of it are being added.
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