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Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by galfarragem »

FerociousTimes wrote: post #18
vasco wrote: post #7

Once we can do "more like this", "less like that" in a way that doesn't require a 3 paragraph inscrutable word soup for prompts, I don't see how this doesn't revolutionalize most industries that need any type of quick prototyping of anything. You could do this for any sort of web / mobile / whatever UI, designing houses, cars, any object really, fashion, etc. It's all going to be so much faster.

This is still rehashing the same concepts/ideas in circulation not producing novel ones nor innovating in this space. Maybe it will prove beneficial for rapid prototyping during the ideation stage for mass-market products/services in the commercial/residential remodeling industry but nothing revolutionary.

> This is still rehashing the same concepts/ideas in circulation not producing novel ideas or innovating in this space.

That's exactly what the average creative professional does. As an anecdote, being intellectually honest, most of the architects I know (and I know many as an housing architect myself), would not do better than this tool does now - "creatively" speaking - let alone in the future.

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by richk449 »

FerociousTimes wrote: post #18
vasco wrote: post #7

Once we can do "more like this", "less like that" in a way that doesn't require a 3 paragraph inscrutable word soup for prompts, I don't see how this doesn't revolutionalize most industries that need any type of quick prototyping of anything. You could do this for any sort of web / mobile / whatever UI, designing houses, cars, any object really, fashion, etc. It's all going to be so much faster.

This is still rehashing the same concepts/ideas in circulation not producing novel ones nor innovating in this space. Maybe it will prove beneficial for rapid prototyping during the ideation stage for mass-market products/services in the commercial/residential remodeling industry but nothing revolutionary.

Seems like a valid point, but aren’t 99.999% of kitchen remodels rehashing the same ideas and concepts in circulation? 99.999% of clothes? 99.999% of furniture?

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by cookingrobot »

ldng wrote: post #14

And at the same time ... only variation of conformism ? Stable Diffusion opens a lot a avenues and yet it is somewhat "restricted" to what it "knows/understands". Put differently, if cars it exposed to is black can it paint them pink ? What about even higher level construct ? It can not innovate can it ? Not yet ? Anyways, fascinating.

For this particular case I’d want it to be even less creative. I want it to be able to make designs that just use cabinets that are available to buy, and it should know where to source them and what they cost.

And only show me lights that really exist and are for sale, etc.

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by totalview »

I read a lot of these posts on stable diffusion, midjourney, etc., and I don’t want to fall into the classic “I don’t think this is ready yet” camp, but one thing an Architect will be able to do really well which these tools won’t is make a kitchen that is actually usable. I mean, this thing is basically a corrupted Pinterest of kitchen ideas with doors and drawers intersecting, beams that make no sense, and flooring that looks menacing. And until we have AGI I don’t think our program sophistication will be able to iron out these “uncanny valley” isms that seem built into every aI image generation tool.

Now I know that this tool is just a “starting point” for using as ideas, but I have seen way more fabulous (and sane) kitchen designs en mass on houzz, dezeen, basically any online blog. The technology is cool, but it seems limited. As in we can only get weird amalgams of human concepts. All this to say, I work with architects professionally, and I do not see this as something that will cause their field concern in the near to mid term. These programs cannot make drawings with structural suggestions, floor plans for the layout they produce, or anything else that a person pays an architect for. Just my two cents

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by lijogdfljk »

galfarragem wrote: post #21
FerociousTimes wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is still rehashing the same concepts/ideas in circulation not producing novel ones nor innovating in this space. Maybe it will prove beneficial for rapid prototyping during the ideation stage for mass-market products/services in the commercial/residential remodeling industry but nothing revolutionary.

> This is still rehashing the same concepts/ideas in circulation not producing novel ideas or innovating in this space. That's exactly what the average creative professional does. As an anecdote, being intellectually honest, most of the architects I know (and I know many as an housing architect myself), would not do better than this tool does now - "creatively" speaking - let alone in the future.

I'm also curious how non-novel this is. Ie if A and B are both pre-existing individually, A+B might still be reasonably novel. Which may be a bad thing honestly. This will do some things where a seasoned designer would avoid for a technical limitation. Ie A and B shouldn't be combined for some logical reason, where as maybe StableDiff would just throw pieces together without care.

But still, StableDiff has been amazing in my view. Prototyping anything this quickly is going to be a game changer. As someone who doesn't think in pictures well, this looks to let me mock things up so incredibly well. I am so hyped for the refinement of the tooling in this space.

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by xsmasher »

gus_massa wrote: post #2

Did you start with some stock photos? The photos of your kitchen? There are a lot of changes in the windows and other stuff that is difficult to modify in real life. It would be nice to be able to restrict the changes, but it's probably difficult to "explain" that restriction to Stable Diffusion.

This link from a few days ago lets you provide the seed image.

https://interiorai.com/

Same issue though, it may suggest you remove your ceiling or move a door.

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by subw00f »

totalview wrote: post #25

I read a lot of these posts on stable diffusion, midjourney, etc., and I don’t want to fall into the classic “I don’t think this is ready yet” camp, but one thing an Architect will be able to do really well which these tools won’t is make a kitchen that is actually usable. I mean, this thing is basically a corrupted Pinterest of kitchen ideas with doors and drawers intersecting, beams that make no sense, and flooring…

>“uncanny valley” isms

What exactly does that mean? I bet most people would fail to tell things apart on a blind test comparing kitchen designs generated by humans vs. ai (not counting the "transitory" images with blurred corners etc.). Same thing with concept art.

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by alar44 »

subw00f wrote: post #28
totalview wrote: post #25

I read a lot of these posts on stable diffusion, midjourney, etc., and I don’t want to fall into the classic “I don’t think this is ready yet” camp, but one thing an Architect will be able to do really well which these tools won’t is make a kitchen that is actually usable. I mean, this thing is basically a corrupted Pinterest of kitchen ideas with doors and drawers intersecting, beams that make no sense, and flooring…

>“uncanny valley” isms What exactly does that mean? I bet most people would fail to tell things apart on a blind test comparing kitchen designs generated by humans vs. ai (not counting the "transitory" images with blurred corners etc.). Same thing with concept art.

Did you watch the video??

Re: Kitchen Renovation ideas animation using Stable Diffusion [video]

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Post by pfd1986 »

galfarragem wrote: post #10
albertgt wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that is super cool you are in that industry, any thoughts on a tool that assists interior design teams/architects on this kind of ideation?

It has the potential to retire the average salaryman in the creativity field (not just interior design teams/architects but specially UI/web designers). Outliers will be outliers and choosing one may give the client an edge but the average creative may not do much better than this "AI" and as such loose the ability to put bread on the table doing "creative" work.

As someone in my field (radiology) has put: It's not that doctors will be replaced by AI, doctors using AI will replace those who do not.
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