Goofing around
Inside you, boy,
There’s an old man sleepin’,
Dreamin’ waitin’ for his chance.
Inside you, girl,
There’s an old lady dozin’,
Wantin’ to show you a slower dance.
So keep on playin’,
Keep on runnin’,
Keep on jumpin’, til the day
That those old folks
Down inside you
Wake up … and come out and play.
- Shel Silverstein
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…
So I've found a new workplace to go to the development trenches with. It's truly a blessing for us financially. But I have to say, for someone that doesn't care for big life changes, I feel like ours has had... a lot of them. I've learned, I've grown, I and my family have been tempered and hardened like a piece of iron passing through a slow and steady forge, with the occasional, unexpected shock of a sudden quenching.
I could go on about life changing as a whole for every member of my family; but I'll limit my thoughts to the subject of new jobs. Every company a place with both…