Anyone noticed that i was gone? :D There is a post about windows deciding not to work, backups when in crypto space, some surprises with Brave backups... that will probably never be written :D
So back to some art fun.
Disco Diffusion is an AI text-to-image app. You give it text and it tries to make an image from it. And it is fun to watch what it can do. There are some surprising results.
But for me there is an option in Disco Diffusion that is even more fun/frustrating :) Giving the app an initial image, setting a starting point and then waiting to see will the result be cool or complete garbage.
If you followed development of 3D animation (or just watched movies in the last 30 years) you probably noticed that the last thing creators try to do is make a realistic human characters. Because it is hard :)
From my experiments with Disco Diffusion it is the same thing. I was actually surprised how well it understands what is what in the photo. But still it does some crazy things to it.
There is a lot of try and error in the process. Especially with picking the photo. Overall face strait to the camera works best, but even then not all photos work. I was kinda lucky with this one as i picked it really early in the try and error process. As if not maybe i would just gave up. From my testing just head portraits don't work at all.
Then there is the text you enter into Disco Diffusion. Some things work great and some don't work at all. In these edits Steampunk (steampunk glasses), tribal warrior worked nice. Anything with sci-fi, alien, robot, android looked really bad.
All of these photos are mixes of several results from Disco Diffusion and original photo. As almost every version has something interesting in it, but the rest of the photo is just all over the place :D
I found that this photo also works ok with "elf wizard" combination.
And this is the original photo used.