Checkpoint #9 – The week in AI art: Pixels, composable images, full humans and smooth animation

News & articles

The text-to-image revolution, explained – Excellent videos from Vox explaining the whole AI art thing. So good to see such excellent artists featured so prominently.

Text2Human – Text-to-image generator for full human image generation. Given a pose, it's able to generate diverse, high quality images of people with a wide range of clothing and styles. Huggingface Space | Paper.

Composable Diffusion – Diffusion model that understands spatial relationships between elements in the prompt. For example 'A red car parked in a desert and hills behind the car and aurora in the sky'. Colab | Paper.

Disco Diffusion 5.2 WarpFusion – Variant of Disco Diffusion from @devdef which uses optical flow to create much smoother animations.

Jeremy Torman @TormanJeremy

Testing @devdef's warp fork of disco diffusion https://t.co/0cmgeQQj9E

 JAX Diffusion 2.1 – Fantastic update from @huemin_art that enables much larger than normal images to be created by automatically stitching together smaller ones.

Revrart @revrart

@huemin_art @EnzymeZoo @snecc_art Thank you for letting me beta test and sharing ideas and thoughts! Here are some examples I have made so people can see the strengths of this notebook. https://t.co/I9nt8J8k6e

Randall Munroe @xkcd

The DALL·E image generator can produce spectacular visuals, but really stumbles over text. As a result, the tourism posters it comes up with are extremely good. Visit scenic Colado! #dalle https://t.co/419Lv9eJ1E

Featured notebook – Pixel Art Diffusion

Floral pattern by James Jean and William Morris, #pixelart

Pixel Art Diffusion by @KaliYuga_ai is a flavour of Disco Diffusion with a custom model trained on pixel art landscapes. The result is an output with a fun pixel art aesthetic. The results aren't true pixel images, but it's a great starting point and can always be further processed using something like http://pixelatorapp.com.

Get it:

• Github

• Colab

Settings comparison by @KaliYuga_ai

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