branchlet (@chadaka) • Hey
branchlet (@chadaka) • Hey
Publications
- Wake up early and do some stretching exercises to start the day energetic.
- I know I’m late to the game… but what’s up buttrfly! 🫡😘
- A beautiful day to let go of stress and embrace the moment.
- okay, i had to pick up a kemonokaki — because this one reminds me of the last unicorn, which was my absolute favorite film as a child.
it may finally be time to change my pfp ???
- Today's weather is incredibly wonderful. The sky is clear blue, and the sun is shining brightly.
- Hope is the light that guides us through the darkest times.
- Maybe I’m just biased, but I don’t really think it’d be an unpopular opinion to allow for pure specialty medical education in the US, so doctors wouldn’t have to go to school for 12 years and then charge their patients half their left nut to fix their right nut. But, my bias could be showing,
- life imitates art
- The mood is like coffee in the afternoon, the faint aroma floating in the air.
- The mood is like a clear sky, cheerful and clear
- The @lens/galverse anime is just around the corner! This is the first anime that's taken fan/holder input to create character, prop, background, story designs. We've literally built this together and cannot wait to see the finished anime, ready to be 🤯 by @lens/ayaka_ohira 🙌💫💫
- How can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain
- When I feel loved, all I can think about is thank you.
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- Not all who wander are lost by Jeff Drongowski
- GM Gem Gem Crypto Fam~ ❤️☀️
- gm @club/gear heads
- gn ✨🌘
- I made an entry to Claire Silver’s AI art contest.
Check it out and maybe show it some love over at Twitter so she notices it.
https://x.com/simonjaquemet/status/1798116504845615499?s=46&t=gwEzwynRGvj-R3-iMgYyLQ
Here the lengthy description:
Here's my submission: QUALM KINGDOM
#ClaireAIContest
The actual piece is a web app. It has only one button: «Generate»
qualm-kingdom.rtgen.ai
Attached some images inside the low limit that Twitter allows. The idea is that the project consists of infinite images.
OK... What is this about:
My father became obsessed with photography after he retired. He took thousands of images of rather uneventful places around Zurich in Switzerland where he and me live. His images had a very understated humor in how he captured the mundane. He shared it with me and we discussed. Inspired by the contest I asked him if I could train a model on his images. He agreed and I trained an SDXL checkpoint on around 50 photos and the resulting model worked well in capturing the essence of a Swiss (probably similar to Germany or Austria) city and surroundings.
Sometimes I get an eerie feeling looking at the somewhat boring tidiness, perfect organization and wealth that surrounds me. When I see images of Ukraine, where I was several times and have friends and which is a short flight or a manageable car-drive away. Or worse the middle-east, which leaves me totally helpless in what to even think or feel I get something like survivor's guilt. The wealth and stability suddenly seems fragile and maybe it is us causing all this, or at least not doing enough or anything.
I took the model trained on my father's images and added 'war' and 'destruction' to the prompt. The result is a stream of ephemeral pictures of an imaginary war-torn alpine western European country.
One of my main interests in AI art is to create a concept and code for endless and unique, fleeting images.
Tech: This runs on a React frontend doing the whole prompt logic and calling a ComfyUI backend on Runpod Serverless. The Comfy Workflow is rather simple with a low-res image generated by my trained model and then being upscaled by RealVisXL-turbo using the great PAG (Perturbed Attention Guidance). Be patient. It still takes around 1 minute per image.
I learnt a lot. I wanted to do much more: like a page that would show an endless slideshow of new images and sound but in the end I met my limits (and ChatGPT was down today when I needed it)... Maybe will update along the way