joelS

This is an amazing writeup, thank you. looking forward to going through it in more detail.

very nice!! I've had trouble working through AlphaFold in the past so this is going to be very helpful...

Hi all, we created a virtual world to explore and generated images together in the latent space.

We’re nostalgic for hangouts on runescape, and wanted a world where you can find your aesthetic niche and make art with the people there.

Happy to answer any questions!

Tuner is based on techniques from the GAN days of discovering latent space directions but applies them to diffusion models! This allows the ability to control lots of independent attributes (age, hair, etc) without prompting.

Yes! using the init_image

Hi! Joel, one of the creators of ProsePainter, here. It's all open source https://github.com/Morphogens/prosepainter and you can see the original announcement with some examples of users works here https://twitter.com/StudioMorphogen/status/14965783377910456...

Happy to answer any questions!

Author here, happy to answer any questions.

Very cool! Artbreeder does have an animation tool, just go to create -> category -> animate

best, joel

I still have the model! I started working on the image -> vector conversion (which is more complicated than I expected) and then got distracted. I should finish that up, thanks for the reminder :)

Thanks! Glad you liked it. JWildfire is super cool, I would love to add a fractal flame category to Artbreeder.

it's not cheap but there are ways to make it manageable, i.e a aws spot g4 instance can be as low as 15 cents an hour

Thanks! No plans at the moment but it’s possible!

Hey! So I feel a lot of creativity is 'combinatorial', i.e knows what two things might go well together. Artbreeder kind of gamifies that by making it very easy. So many images may look similar but some people can really develop their own style with time.

Also, often my favorite part of artbreeder is when artists take what they save as the inspiration or building blocks for full works. It's really an inspiration tool, but saying inspiration-breeder is a mouthful.

More generally, I think computation can meaningfully augment human creativity by providing surprise and break us out of our loops.

Best, Joel

Nothing fancy, just running on AWS :) Specifically, https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g4/ - The uploading is actually the expensive part since it can take ~2 minutes per image.