The latest alternative to Stable Diffusion 3; Flux by Black Forest Labs. I can BARELY run it on my 8GB video card; It takes maybe 8 minutes per image when all is said and done. But it is much better about not mangling human hands, and can actually generate real text (not garbled alien letters).
Very pretty stuff!
These are randomly generated "Flower monster" images that have been enhanced by some prompt helpers.
My latest project; I'm thinking of creating scenes that I can imagine, snapshots of people in history. Moments of change, of contemplation, of "life happening".
This uses PixArt Sigma, SDXL refiner, Face Restore, and LDSR Upscaling. LDSR is very slow, but gives amazing results. I'll likely add a preview-chooser early in the workflow so I can get just the right image before sending it into the upscaler. I've attached a split-screen image showing the before and after from the LDSR process, which sharpens and actually intelligently adds additional detail.
The prompt was given some…
This is an example of Cura's "lightning" infill. Less material, faster printing. Pretty cool! Can save a lot of print time.
Lightning infill is not an evolution of previous infill techniques but instead a completely new approach to creating internal support structures. Lightning infill works by identifying and supporting the internal areas of a model that need assistance to print successfully.
The resulting infill ends up having a branching tree-like structure that resembles a lightning…
Specialization in the workplace, i.e. division of labor, has a long history of effective application. If one person is doing too many disparate tasks, it tends to be inefficient. This being the case, in the realm of creative process things are typically approached from two fronts, design and development. The division is often firmly enforced; logic and presentation are separated. Educational institutions, in an…