[HN Gopher] Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
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Show HN: Free, Accessible AI Art Generator
Author : hwayne
Score : 79 points
Date : 2021-08-09 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| minimaxir wrote:
| See also my notebook (which was released after the OP's notebook
| and I was not aware of it until after I completed mine) from the
| same source which focuses on more streamlining and more
| deterministic output by using icon-based input/target images:
| https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wkF67ThUz37T2_oPIuS...
| hwayne wrote:
| I think we're in a "lightbulb" moment: the tech has gotten good
| and convenient enough that a lot of people are having the same
| ideas. I mean, heck, I don't know anything about AI _or_ art
| and I was still able to make my notebook. There 's also been a
| bunch of paid solutions submitted to HN, too, as people try to
| find ways to build products off this.
|
| The great thing is that the space is big and crazy enough that
| even if a bunch of people independently make something,
| everything they make will be different in interesting ways. I'm
| just focusing on making it as simple as possible, to the point
| where I don't even have an option to have different width and
| height. I give it maybe a month before someone makes a Colab
| that blows both of ours out of the water.
|
| (I should really start aggregating the notebooks, so people who
| enjoyed mine and want to try all the other cool ones can see
| them all in one place)
| corysama wrote:
| There's a fairly active community on Reddit playing with this
| tech https://www.reddit.com/user/corysama/m/gan_art/
| BossingAround wrote:
| I was just baffled by https://vimeo.com/584985260. This is
| utterly amazing.
| fpgaminer wrote:
| This was truly horrifying, thank you:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/olhjbe/demonic_c...
| jcims wrote:
| This was one of my favorites:
|
| https://twitter.com/trainoferror/status/1412944106372935688?.
| ..
| Mizza wrote:
| I ended up making this (NSFW?) one a while back:
| https://i.imgur.com/TLASiRG.png
|
| I found it really interesting that people discovered that you
| can get improve quality by including strings like "Blender
| HD", "Unity Engine", "HD Wallpaper".
| jcims wrote:
| Try adding 'tattoo'
| hwayne wrote:
| I've seen a bunch of people share their AI art generators, so I
| figured I'd get in on the action and share mine. This is based on
| the notebooks written by AI artists like advadnoun and Katherine
| Crowson. The difference between those and this is:
|
| - Friendlier UI/UX: I used colab forms and IPython widgets to
| make it easy to use if you don't know how to program. For
| example, instead of having people fiddle with sampling vs pooling
| methods, you can just select "default" or "cumin" flavors.
|
| - Simplified inputs: I stripped out a lot of the power from
| "artist-oriented" notebooks to make it less scary to first
| timers. You can still edit the code directly to get the same
| power, but all that's hidden away.
|
| - "Download all images" and "create a video" buttons for funsies.
|
| People have also been posting commercial AI offerings, like
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28070149. The differences
| with this are:
|
| - Totally free. This is running off Google's free Colab offering.
| You just need a Google account.
|
| - No wait times. Colab gives a separate GPU to each user, so
| there's no queueing or anything.
|
| - A bit more power: if Colab assigns you a large instance (most
| people are getting large instances, unless you use it for a very
| long time), you can make images up to 700x700.
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| - Codes all available if you want to clone it, make your own
| version, or download it to run locally.
|
| I shared this on Twitter last week and lots of nonprogrammers are
| able to use it, which tells me that it works pretty well at its
| intended goals. So far this is my favorite thing anybody's made
| with it (video, sound):
| https://twitter.com/PuPunPa/status/1423428815846481924
|
| Also happy to answer any questions people have about AI art in
| general. I only fell down the rabbit hole last month, and it's a
| _deep_ rabbit hole, so I can 't promise much, but I really like
| talking about this stuff and sharing what I've learned. Enjoy!
| minimaxir wrote:
| > A bit more power: if Colab assigns you a large instance (most
| people are getting large instances, unless you use it for a
| very long time), you can make images up to 700x700.
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| Technically you just need a GPU with 16GB VRAM to create larger
| images, which is every GPU Colab can give except the K80 (which
| has 12GB VRAM, but still can do 600x600)
|
| Your Notebook code appears to do to a VRAM check via nvidia-
| smi, not an instance size check.
| Mizza wrote:
| Does anybody know of the best practice for creating large
| images (ex 3840x2160) on a single GPU (ex a 2080/3080)? I
| played with stitching some years ago when all of this stuff
| was still in its infancy, but wasn't super thrilled with the
| results as I ended up with seams, now I'm wondering if a
| common practice has emerged as the techniques have evolved.
| minimaxir wrote:
| Create an image normally and do 2x/4x image super-
| resolution.
|
| Hey, if you're already working with AI-generated art, using
| another AI isn't unreasonable.
| hwayne wrote:
| What you could try doing is use a notebook that lets you
| start with an initial image [1], chunk that image, and
| generate a an image for each chunk. It wouldn't be unified,
| but it could come out interesting.
|
| To make bigger images, I'm currently making composites out
| of multiple smaller prompts, like gradients or chessboards.
| hwayne wrote:
| Hot dang I forgot to actually add in the link and now
| it's too late to edit so here it is
|
| [1] https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1wkF67ThUz37T
| 2_oPIuS...
| usmannk wrote:
| I know HN has special rules for formatting certain URLs. Like
| Twitter links get the username added on and apparently
| research.google.com gets a subdomain (Or maybe all of Google?).
|
| Turns out this link is actually from colab, a repository of user-
| generated content hosted at colab.research.google.com.
|
| @dang: if it isn't too unwieldy, maybe colab links could have the
| 'colab' part added on too? The way it is now led me to think the
| link led to an official Google Research publication/project.
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| mattkevan wrote:
| I've been utterly obsessed with the VQGAN notebooks since they
| came out and had a ton of fun.
|
| It's amazing how much difference choosing the right prompts can
| make - trending on artstation, by James Gurney (even James Gurney
| himself got in on it), unreal engine, volumetric lighting etc.
|
| No hyperbole in that this is one of the biggest things to happen
| in digital art, probably since Photoshop.
|
| Check out some of my creations:
| https://twitter.com/unltd_dream_co/
| kyrra wrote:
| I was playing around with this with some friends and I have to
| say that anything involving animals of any kind in the generation
| leads to really weird results. I haven't tried other AI art
| programs, so I don't know of this is sort of expected, but
| definitely interesting.
| hwayne wrote:
| Same thing with trees. It definitely seems to struggle more
| with individual objects you'd expect to see in lots of photos.
| It's really good at locations, though.
|
| (Some of that might also be what I hardcoded. Most notebooks
| give a lot more flexibility in the art you produced, I
| simplified things dramatically for accessibility purposes)
| kamilszybalski wrote:
| Looks like a neat NFT generator.
| cubano wrote:
| Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output
| from this?
|
| I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and
| trying to modify them, yet I am baffled as what to do to actually
| see, or even know what's going on, what the system is producing.
|
| Very frustrating.
| hwayne wrote:
| Ping me on twitter or email? Both should be in the colab
| notebook.
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