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Feb 21, 2022#1

evilmike

Playing with Conway's Game of Life

Feb 21, 2022#2

PatrThom

pew pew

pew pew

--Patrick

Mar 22, 2022#3

evilmike

Playing around with diffusion simulation with general and guided diffusion rates:

Mar 22, 2022#4

PatrThom

It looks like art that was made atop a Chladni plate.

--Patrick

Mar 22, 2022#5

evilmike

PatrThom said:
It looks like art that was made atop a Chladni plate.

--Patrick

Interesting. I think I can simulate something like a Chladni plate by using a repeating pattern in the diffusion coefficient arrays. I'll have to try that tonight.

Mar 22, 2022#6

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
It looks like art that was made atop a Chladni plate.

--Patrick

That was my exact first reaction, too.

Mar 22, 2022#7

General Specific

Those mazes are hard

Mar 22, 2022#8

Tinwhistler

There's a style of crochet called "wavy" or "wiggle" crochet that I've been meaning to dip my toe into, and it made me think of that.

Also, a petri dish.

Mar 22, 2022#9

evilmike

Mar 22, 2022#10

evilmike

General Specific said:
Those mazes are hard

That's a different algorithm.

Mar 23, 2022#11

evilmike

Edging toward cosmic horror...

Mar 25, 2022#12

evilmike

I'm sorry, Jon

Mar 25, 2022#13

evilmike

I'm sorry Jon 2

Mar 25, 2022#14

Terrik

evilmike said:
I'm sorry Jon 2
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May 5, 2022#15

evilmike

Not exactly generative -- playing around with simple pattern matching to create ASCII art:

May 22, 2022#16

evilmike

"Binary Art"

May 22, 2022#17

PatrThom

You may think it's a bit much, but when I see stuff like this, I think back to 8088 Corruption and how the person who made that demo built a routine that tried to match each "tile" in the original image with the closest equivalent ASCII character (so a tile with a diagonal line might become a "/" etc) and I wonder how far something like that could be taken. Of course font choice would be crucial, but I wonder just how closely an image could be matched with text. And let's not even get started on overprinting (backing up the print head to print a second character over the first)...

--Patrick

May 22, 2022#18

evilmike

PatrThom said:
You may think it's a bit much, but when I see stuff like this, I think back to 8088 Corruption and how the person who made that demo built a routine that tried to match each "tile" in the original image with the closest equivalent ASCII character (so a tile with a diagonal line might become a "/" etc) and I wonder how far something like that could be taken. Of course font choice would be crucial, but I wonder just how closely an image could be matched with text. And let's not even get started on overprinting (backing up the print head to print a second character over the first)...

--Patrick

That's awesome.

Ultimately, this is basically a diversion from more generative experiments that I was working on. Ultimately, it still lets me practice some of the techniques for manipulating an image and turning it into array data. The next step, which may not directly translate with this image, is vectorizing it and cutting them on the laser cutter. I am interested in using multiple cut layers in a method not too disimilar to overprinting.

Jul 4, 2022#19

evilmike

PatrThom said:
You may think it's a bit much, but when I see stuff like this, I think back to 8088 Corruption and how the person who made that demo built a routine that tried to match each "tile" in the original image with the closest equivalent ASCII character (so a tile with a diagonal line might become a "/" etc) and I wonder how far something like that could be taken. Of course font choice would be crucial, but I wonder just how closely an image could be matched with text. And let's not even get started on overprinting (backing up the print head to print a second character over the first)...

--Patrick

Sep 20, 2022#20

Dei

My friends and I have been experimenting with MidJourney for our D&D campaign, and today the AI has blessed me with this.

Sep 20, 2022#21

GasBandit

Dei said:
My friends and I have been experimenting with MidJourney for our D&D campaign, and today the AI has blessed me with this.

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What was the text prompt you used to generate that?

Sep 20, 2022#22

Dei

GasBandit said:
What was the text prompt you used to generate that?

Well it's a mess but

portrait, half body, centered, a demonic woman with horns, red hair, black eyes, wearing a leather bodysuit, portrait of a person by Anne Stokes and Arina Tanemura, environment design by Artemisia Gentileschi, intricate details, action pose, moody lighting, smoke, vivid forest background

Also remastered the results one I saw a good pose

Sep 20, 2022#23

Dei

GasBandit said:
What was the text prompt you used to generate that?

Allow me to also offer this from a different prompt

Sep 20, 2022#24

GasBandit

Dei said:
Well it's a mess but

portrait, half body, centered, a demonic woman with horns, red hair, black eyes, wearing a leather bodysuit, portrait of a person by Anne Stokes and Arina Tanemura, environment design by Artemisia Gentileschi, intricate details, action pose, moody lighting, smoke, vivid forest background

Also remastered the results one I saw a good pose

Hah, I tried feeding that same prompt into nightcafe and got this weaksauce.
How's that "vivid forest background" workin out for ya

I guess I should have appended "with a finely detailed symmetrical face"

Sep 20, 2022#25

GasBandit

Also I generated this one at thumbsnap with the simple prompt of "redhead aphrodite"

Sep 20, 2022#26

GasBandit

On a different tack, I put in "the greatest threat to all mankind" and got this realistic scooby-doo fanart

Sep 20, 2022#27

GasBandit

I uh... might have invited the midjourney bot to the halforums discord.

Sep 20, 2022#28

GasBandit

Queen of the Weasels of Doom

Sep 20, 2022#29

GasBandit

"gas bandit"

Sep 21, 2022#30

Tinwhistler

That's not creepy at all.

I'm working on trying to get Cthulhu in a 3 piece suit..this was one of the intermediate results. It's not Cthulhu...but I really like how it turned out.

Getting closer. But I like the suit in the failed offshoot so much better.

Sep 22, 2022#31

Tinwhistler

I don't know why I was inspired to try to get Zombie Jesus today, but here we are.

Sep 22, 2022#32

Tinwhistler

For less creepy, I thought I'd see if Midjourney knew what crochet was and if it could make a realistic amigurumi. I'd say it turned out pretty good.

Sep 24, 2022#33

GasBandit

lambdal/text-to-pokemon – Run with an API on Replicate

Generate Pokémon from a text description

replicate.com

gas bandit

Sep 26, 2022#34

GasBandit

From NightCafe, with the simple prompt of "super long red hair."

Surprisingly tasteful

Sep 28, 2022#35

PatrThom

This was actually quite interesting.

(not the Capital One part, though. That part could've been edited out)

--Patrick

Sep 28, 2022#36

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
(not the Capital One part, though. That part could've been edited out)

--Patrick

With the SponsorBlock addon, it already has been!

Oct 21, 2022#37

GasBandit

Oct 21, 2022#38

PatrThom

I’ve seen some other ones that are just as amazing but which I shouldn’t post here.

—Patrick

Oct 21, 2022#39

GasBandit

Oct 21, 2022#40

Dei

GasBandit said:

Also known as Everything, Everywhere All at Once RP

Oct 23, 2022#41

GasBandit

Well... I guess that tracks

Oct 31, 2022#42

bhamv3

I told Stable Diffusion to generate a female ninja. It did remarkably well, except...

Nov 1, 2022#43

PatrThom

bhamv3 said:
I told Stable Diffusion to generate a female ninja. It did remarkably well, except...

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—Patrick

Nov 3, 2022#44

Zappit

Nov 3, 2022#45

PatrThom

Have you ever wanted an AI art generator that tries its best to look like stock art? Welll...

--Patrick

Nov 7, 2022#46

GasBandit

Nov 7, 2022#47

PatrThom

Ah! I saw the last one but didn't know the context of where it came from.

--Patrick

Nov 11, 2022#48

PatrThom

Oh man, here we go...

--Patrick

Nov 22, 2022#49

GasBandit

Nov 22, 2022#50

PatrThom

There's something a little off about #12, I can't quite figure it out.
#47 must be the European version.

--Patrick

Nov 28, 2022#51

GasBandit

Dec 2, 2022#52

GasBandit

Dec 2, 2022#53

PatrThom

That Scarecrow is fantastic.

--Patrick

Dec 3, 2022#54

GasBandit

Dec 5, 2022#55

GasBandit

Dec 5, 2022#56

figmentPez

Dan Povenmire is the creator of Phineas & Ferb as well as other animated Disney series.

Dec 15, 2022#57

GasBandit

Dec 21, 2022#58

Tinwhistler

On another forum I'm on, someone asked if I could try to get a cute anime moth girl out of Midjourney as a birthday present for a friend. It took about half an hour of finagling keywords and reference photos and some photoshop to clean up weird AI artifacts, but think I did aight.

Dec 21, 2022#59

Tinwhistler

I'm kind of excited about Midjourney again now that I learned they added an "anime style" flag (--niji)
This one is a kid stomping around angrily wearing a dinosaur costume

Jan 1, 2023#60

GasBandit

Jan 1, 2023#61

PatrThom

#6 looks tailor-made for Richard Lewis.

--Patrick

Jan 2, 2023#62

@Li3n

GasBandit said:

So, Spidey is also the Sorcerer Supreme of that reality ?

Jan 2, 2023#63

GasBandit

AI's getting better at fingers. Toes are still a work in progress.

Jan 2, 2023#64

GasBandit

A Nightmare Face Is Haunting AI Art, And There's A Reason We Shouldn't Look Away

She's out there somewhere, lurking in a parallel universe of possibilities.

www.sciencealert.com

Jan 2, 2023#65

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
A Nightmare Face Is Haunting AI Art, And There's A Reason We Shouldn't Look Away

She's out there somewhere, lurking in a parallel universe of possibilities.

www.sciencealert.com

Looks like it, too, is evolving its own language.

--Patrick

Jan 2, 2023#66

GasBandit

Jan 3, 2023#67

PatrThom

Why is #17 the least creepy one?

--Patrick

Jan 3, 2023#68

Tinwhistler

fiddling a bit with the anime flags with Midjourney

Jan 6, 2023#69

Far

I started playing with Midjourney after @Tinwhistler brought it up again a few weeks ago.

One thing I've found hugely helpful is since you can see others creations in the community and the prompts they used to get there, it's entirely possible to take those and alter what you need to to get a good start at recreating.

Another thing I didn't know was possible until a bit a go was you can take an image link and give that as reference to build prompts on to, including previous creations.

Jan 6, 2023#70

Tinwhistler

Far said:
I started playing with Midjourney after @Tinwhistler brought it up again a few weeks ago.

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One thing I've found hugely helpful is since you can see others creations in the community and the prompts they used to get there, it's entirely possible to take those and alter what you need to to get a good start at recreating.

Another thing I didn't know was possible until a bit a go was you can take an image link and give that as reference to build prompts on to, including previous creations.

omg, you are much better at this than I am

Teach me your keyword magic!

Jan 7, 2023#71

Dave

Someone on Twitter has a thread where they asked an AI to turn individual countries into villains. It’s pretty epic.

Jan 7, 2023#72

Dave

Be sure to scroll through the whole thing until you see her Canada.

Jan 7, 2023#73

PatrThom

I think the fingers thing actually works to their advantage here.

—Patrick

Jan 12, 2023#74

Far

Tinwhistler said:
omg, you are much better at this than I am Teach me your keyword magic!

Pretty great tutorial for improving your images.

And this channel as well also has some helpful ones.

https://www.youtube.com/@DreamingInAnalog

Jan 12, 2023#75

Tinwhistler

Far said:
Pretty great tutorial for improving your images.

And this channel as well also has some helpful ones.

https://www.youtube.com/@DreamingInAnalog

Jesus. I was watching that video and went "This guy sounds like someone who works for me." So I found an older video that shows his face. And sure enough, that guy works for me. Small fucking world. We're chatting about it now on Teams.

Jan 12, 2023#76

Far

Insane coincidence!

Jan 12, 2023#77

Tinwhistler

Far said:
Insane coincidence!

That's what I thought! I guess now I know why he's so great at presentations at work

Jan 12, 2023#78

Far

Tinwhistler said:
That's what I thought! I guess now I know why he's so great at presentations at work

I've told a few people about this and no one seems to grasp just how improbable this is.

Jan 12, 2023#79

Tinwhistler

Far said:
I've told a few people about this and no one seems to grasp just how improbable this is.

Yeah, except for here, the general response I've also gotten is kind of a bland "oh, neat."

I guess I need to soil my mouth and say "It's like finding out that Logan Paul works for you, because you've never seen his videos before."

I guess the closest thing I can think of that's happened to me before is my most recent wife and I used to hang out in the same circles and had the same friends at school, but we never ended up in the same classes (different grade) or at the same parties, so we never met until I was in my 20s--and then we found out that we had all the same friends. heh.

But even that's not even close, because at least we had the commonality of the same school to bring the probabilities together.

Jan 12, 2023#80

Far

Tinwhistler said:
Yeah, except for here, the general response I've also gotten is kind of a bland "oh, neat."

I guess I need to soil my mouth and say "It's like finding out that Logan Paul works for you, because you've never seen his videos before."

I guess the closest thing I can think of that's happened to me before is my most recent wife and I used to hang out in the same circles and had the same friends at school, but we never ended up in the same classes (different grade) or at the same parties, so we never met until I was in my 20s--and then we found out that we had all the same friends. heh.

But even that's not even close, because at least we had the commonality of the same school to bring the probabilities together.

If it was just that you had stumbled on the video on your own that would be weird enough but it's that I as an independent 3rd party, picked that tutorial out of all available ones and presented it to you that makes it truly mind-boggling for me.

Jan 15, 2023#81

PatrThom

Here come the lawyers!

Class Action Filed Against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt for DMCA Violations, Right of Publicity Violations, Unlawful Competition, Breach of TOS

/PRNewswire/ -- Stability AI Ltd.; Stability AI, Inc.; Midjourney Inc.; and DeviantArt, Inc. have created products that infringe the rights of artists and...

www.prnewswire.com

We will see if it holds up against the "transformative" part.

--Patrick

Jan 16, 2023#82

Far

While I've had fun poking around with midjourney, there have been a few times where things like an incomprehensible signature was generated onto an image I was attempting to make because enough of the source images it had pulled from had one so it felt like it should be there. That's always leaned toward more than a bit skeevy to me.

Also, people selling things, be in t-shirts posters or what have you, made from images they created using it and encouraging others to do so was always too much for me.

If the image scraping was done on a volunteer basis where someone signs their work over to be added to the trained AI and only those images are trained off of and used to generate new ones, it'd be a different story. But then you wouldn't have nearly the amount of progression it's had nor it's viral success so quickly because of it. Now this is me assuming a little, much of it's progress forward has been because of the sheer number of images it's likely pulled off the internet, and learned from. If the quantity was lessened it just wouldn't work as well* as it does this quickly.

Jan 17, 2023#83

Tinwhistler

So, I just said "Gwarsh" to someone (like Disney's Goofy)...then I got to thinking, "What if that was a portmanteau of "GWAR" and "warsh" (as in, how an old timey southerner might say the word "wash"). this is what Midjourney thought of that idea

Jan 17, 2023#84

PatrThom

...but Goofy says "Gawrsh!" not "Gwarsh!"
So what does MJ think of that?

--Patrick

Jan 17, 2023#85

Tinwhistler

PatrThom said:
...but Goofy says "Gawrsh!" not "Gwarsh!"
So what does MJ think of that?

--Patrick

There are differing opinions on the internet about that

Jan 17, 2023#86

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
There are differing opinions on the internet about that

I would point out that the Internet also has differing opinions about whether the Holocaust actually happened, whether the Earth is round, and even about whether water is wet, etc.

--Patrick

Jan 17, 2023#87

Tinwhistler

PatrThom said:
I would point out that the Internet also has differing opinions about whether the Holocaust actually happened, whether the Earth is round, and even about whether water is wet, etc.

--Patrick

I would submit that the spelling of a nonsense word uttered by a cartoon character probably doesn't really need to tread so close to Godwin's Law

Jan 17, 2023#88

GasBandit

Jan 29, 2023#89

Tinwhistler

Jan 29, 2023#90

Tinwhistler

I've been making a lot of this kind of macabre stuff...I wonder if I could sell it as prints, etc on Etsy.

Feb 4, 2023#91

Tinwhistler

Making some art of fairies dancing in the forest, when their faces start coming out a bit...skewed.

No problem, says I. I can clean that up. Sure thing.

Oh, I think she noticed me. That's...problematic.

Oh lawd, she comin'.

True story: Discord wouldn't ever show these messages as "complete" from MidJourney, so I couldn't delete them out of my chat room.
So I closed down Discord and restarted it. All the messages are gone....weeeeiiiird. But I was gonna delete them anyway.

Feb 4, 2023#92

PatrThom

This looks more like an excerpt where, for just one fleeting moment, you saw through the illusion that had been disguising vicious, carnivorous bees as innocent forest fairies.

--Patrick

Feb 8, 2023#93

Tinwhistler

I made these with Midjourney, though they took a lot of cleanup to fix fingers, etc.

Feb 15, 2023#94

Tinwhistler

I've definitely been focusing more on 'cute' these days

Feb 18, 2023#95

Tinwhistler

This one took marrying a couple images together, since AI is absolutely terrible about making any kind of flute or other long, straight instrument. I probably spent 3 hours in photoshop post-processing to get this one, but I am pretty happy with it.

These haven't had any post-render cleanup yet, but they will before I use them. St. Patrick's day, how it starts vs how it ends.

The 2nd pic has a lot of cleanup required...lot of weird AI rendering around the bottles, especially. But I am kind of proud that I was able to make 2 separate renderings that could ostensibly be the same girl.

Feb 20, 2023#96

Tinwhistler

Newest render after a bit of cleanup

Feb 21, 2023#97

Tinwhistler

So, I've been spending a lot of time making digital art. So much so, I ran out of monthly usage halfway through February and had to upgrade. I've been posting it on a FB Page devoted to that purpose...when I think something's especially cool I share it elsewhere.

Anyway, I made this guy and posted to the gallery. A guy I've met at a few Irish music events (Catskills, O'Flaherty's etc) saw it and asked if they could use it for their band

The Dirty Wellies

www.thedirtywellies.com

Not sure what he's going to use it for, but it makes me feel all accomplished or something.

Feb 22, 2023#98

PatrThom

Tinwhistler said:
I ran out of monthly usage halfway through February and had to upgrade.

Well, if you're looking for a project...

How to run Stable Diffusion to make awesome AI generated art | Digital Trends

Stable Diffusion is one of the most impressive generative AI art tools available today. Here's how to run Stable Diffusion online and on your PC.

www.digitaltrends.com

--Patrick

Mar 3, 2023#99

GasBandit

Mar 3, 2023#100

Far

What in the Doc BrownXKoopa from the 90's live action Mario movies is going on with Eisenhower?!

Mar 3, 2023#101

PatrThom

Carter looks like how I imagine people will remember him a hundred years from now.
Teddy is rockin’ it.
Eisenhower is not. He looks like an X-Files villain.

—Patrick

Mar 3, 2023#102

GasBandit

He's going to dip all of toontown, Eddie!

Mar 3, 2023#103

Far

Ugh yes, that's who I was thinking Judge Doom, not Doc Brown.

Mar 8, 2023#104

Tinwhistler

Making some mermaids for my grand-daughter, because she likes mermaids. But "more realistic and not that disney shit" at the request of my ex-wife.

Mar 8, 2023#105

Tinwhistler

She also likes elephants.
Me: Hey MidJourney--make me an elephant, with a golden crown, sitting on a throne.
Midjourney: I think what I heard was that you wanted a picture of Satan

Wtf?

Mar 13, 2023#106

PatrThom

Advertisers have apparently fully embraced AI art in place of licensing stock photos:

—Patrick

Mar 13, 2023#107

GasBandit

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Mar 19, 2023#108

PatrThom

AI-imager Midjourney v5 stuns with photorealistic images—and 5-fingered hands

"Lack of dopamine hits, because the results are too perfect every time."

arstechnica.com

From that article:

Soon...

--Patrick

Mar 21, 2023#109

Tinwhistler

playing around with V5...so, I was trying to make cute girls fighting dragons. MidJourney AI is supposed to not make nudes or porn or the like. But I told it to use Boris Vallejo style because I like his fantasy work. Well, Boris Vallejo puts lots of titties in his art. So guess what I got?

Monday at 9:38 PM#110

GasBandit

Somebody used Midjourney to make a Balenciaga commercial featuring the cast of Harry Potter.

Monday at 10:04 PM#111

PatrThom

Impressive.
Even though I have no clue what Balenciaga is.

—Patrick

Monday at 10:08 PM#112

GasBandit

PatrThom said:
Impressive.
Even though I have no clue what Balenciaga is.

—Patrick

It's a fashion brand from Spain.

Monday at 10:36 PM#113

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
It's a fashion brand from Spain.

I figured it was a fashion brand by the commercial, but was surprised I didn’t recognize the name…even though I used to live in Spain.

—Patrick

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