And the stars fell down one by one, turning off as extinguished dreams. And the planets followed them, leaving behind an empty sky that only could be filled by an eternal night. But don't fool yourselves, nothing fell, because what never existed can not fall. They were just mirages.
Y cayeron las estrellas una a una, apagándose como sueños ya extinguidos. Y las siguieron los astros, dejando un cielo vacío en el que sólo cabía la eterna noche. Pero no os engañéis, no cayó nada, pues lo que nunca a existido no puede caer. Tan sólo fueron espejismos.
AI Art Experiences
I'm here again with some half-baked stuff, a rant, and also some updates of the notebooks.
This is something that happens to me often. When baking an AI artwork, there is something special in how look the images around 100-200 iterations. The colors are intense, the shapes are not totally defined and that boosts my imagination a lot, and in general, I love that stage of the baking. But with the MSE Notebook, the images tends to be totally messy and undefined, very greyish in the edges, like a vignette, an awful one. Depending of the prompt you get the vignette for more iterations or less. So I have tried some formulas, trying to have the image filling the whole canvas soon as possible. And this is what I got, you will see these half-baked images after a rant and the updates.
So Google, those bastards. This morning, I was updating the notebooks, from copies that I had used to test the updates, to the public releases. Is a simple but boring process, basically copy and paste cells of code. First that I noticed, was that after pasted the code and saved the notebook, when opened it again, the updates got reverted. My first thought was I forgot to save, or... did something wrong, so I tried again. When I have opened the notebook, after updated and saved... it got reverted again, but at the state of two days ago. And while I was getting frankly pissed off, the cherry on the top of the pie... I got disconnected and a pop up told me something like "Service Denied, contact with us blah blah blah..."
Well, I freaked out and blamed my life lol. As in my country there are not paid Google Colab services, I had to do some tricks... thought I got caught. But not, in some minutes, the service was up again...but my notebooks were broken. They looked like they were some days ago... have lost all the updates. Also their copies in Google Drive. Also, the sharing links stopped working properly... if you tried to open a notebook from one of my links, was like they didn't exist anymore, although I had them stored in Google Drive and was able to open them properly from their files. I noticed that when, after had to repeat all my work of the last days, went to try to open the notebooks. I have made new ones to replace them in my posts, but were broken too. At end I made new notebooks, copy pasted the content into them, then made sharing links again, and they worked.
So it seems, that the Google Colab crash corrupted all the notebooks. Fuck you Google!
And now, the good notices. The notebooks are online again, I have made again all the updates that some of you are enjoying, plus something I consider is should be done before is too late. Have to avoid end with notebooks becoming a huge and messy Frankenstein, as there are tons of interesting features I would like to add in a future. So what I have done is reorganize and make shorter the original notebook, and I'm in process to do the same to the MSE one. The video one, comes enough well organized, and the upscaling one I don't think needs any improvement on that sense.
What I have done in the original notebook, is to put together all the extra features, like the custom storage and the anti-disconnect stuff, and collapse them. With that and reducing the giant size that the fonts had, now scroll along it is quick and neat. By the way, I also implemented these extra features in the MSE notebook, and tweaked some fonts. As I said, still a work in process. I would like to implement these features to the video one as well, but this is gonna happen after I finished the organizing in the MSE one.
And that's all (and I think is enough) for today, see you in the next one!
Aquí estoy otra vez con imágenes a medio cocinar, quejas, y algunas actualizaciones de los notebooks.
Hay algo que me sucede muy a menudo. Cuando estoy cocinando alguna obra de arte hecha con IA, siempre hay algo especial en cómo se ven las imágenes cuando están entre 100-200 iteraciones. Los colores son intensos, y las formas no están totalmente definidas y eso hace volar mi imaginación, y en general me encantan. El problema, es que con el notebook MSE, las imágenes tienden a ser muy confusas, poco definidas y grisáceas, como una especie de viñeta muy fea. Dependiendo del prompt que uno esté usando, esa fase en la que hay viñeta puede durar más iteraciones o menos. Así que he probado varias fórmulas, intentando que la imagen rellene todo el lienzo lo antes posible. Y este es el resultado, podréis ver estas imágenes a medio cocinar, después de escuchar como me quejo y hablo de las actualizaciones.
Google, esos bastardos. Esta mañana estaba actualizando los notebooks, de las copias que uso para hacer pruebas, a los notebooks que tengo abiertos al público. Es un proceso simple, pero aburrido, básicamente copiar celdas de código de uno al otro. Al principio, me he dado cuenta de que después de pegar al código actualizado y haberlo guardado en el notebook público, si lo abría otra vez, los cambios habían sido revertidos. Lo primero que he pesando, es que me olvidé de guardar los cambios, o... hice algo mal, así que lo he intentado otra vez. Cuando he vuelto a abrir el notebook, después de actualizar y guardar... los cambios habían sido revertidos otra vez, pero al estado de hace un par de días. Y mientras me estaba empezando a cabrear bastante, la guinda del pastel... fui desconectado y un mensaje emergente me dijo algo como "Servicio denegado, contacta con nosotros bla bla bla..."
Bueno, la verdad es que he entrado en pánico y he maldecido mi vida lol. En mi país no hay servicio de pago de Google Colab, tuve que hacer algunos trucos para tenerlo... me pensé que me habían atrapado. Pero no, al cabo de unos minutos, todo estaba funcionando otra vez... pero mis notebooks estaban rotos. Tenían el aspecto de días atrás... se habían perdido todas las actualizaciones. También en mis copias en Google Drive. También los enlaces habían dejado de funcionar... si intentabas abrir un notebook desde uno de ellos, es como que ya no existía, aún teniéndolo guardado en Google Drive, y pudiéndolo abrir sin problemas desde ahí el archivo. Me di cuenta de ello cuando, después de tener que volver a construir y repetir todos las actualizaciones de los últimos días, quise abrir los notebooks desde los enlaces. Hice nuevos enlaces para reemplazar todos los rotos en mis posts, y también estaban rotos. Al final he hecho notebooks nuevos, he copiado dentro todo el contenido de los otros, he hecho enlaces nuevos otra vez, y ya han funcionado.
Así que parece que el fallo que ha tenido Google Colab esta mañana, ha corrompido todos mis notebooks. ¡Que te jodan Google!
Y ahora, las buenas noticias. Los notebooks están online otra vez, he vuelto a hacer todas la actualizaciones que estáis disfrutando, y algo más que considero que es obligado hacer antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Hay que evitar que los notebooks se conviertan en un Frankenstein enorme y confuso, ya que hay toneladas de cosas interesantes que me gustaría añadir en un futuro. Así que lo que he hecho es reorganizar y acortar el notebook original, y estoy en proceso de hacerle lo mismo al MSE. El de vídeo, ya viene bien organizado, y al de escalado no le veo la necesidad.
Lo que he hecho en el notebook original, ha sido poner juntas todas las funcionalidades extra, como opciones de almacenaje y los sistemas anti-desconexión. Con eso, y reduciendo el tamaño de unas fuentes que eran gigantes, moverse a lo largo de él, es rápido y limpio. Por cierto, he implementado todas estas características en el MSE, y también le he arreglado algunas fuentes. Como he dicho, esto sigue en proceso. Me gusta implementarle estas características también al de video, pero esto ya lo haré cuando haya acabado de re organizar el MSE.
Y aquí eso es todo por hoy (y creo que es más que suficiente), ¡nos vemos en la próxima!.
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Amazing work yet again. I started playing with your notebooks yesterday, and they're great! I get slightly different shapes/compositions for my normal prompts using your notebooks, and it's really fun to see how they differ :)
I'm glad that you're enjoying them. The most noticeable difference comes with the MSE one, the Enhanced Original, have extra features but the quality of the output should be the same as the original notebook.
Which notebook do you usually use?
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Thank you for your notebooks I'll try them. I tried an original notebook and mine results looks not that good even after 6 hours of K80.
Could you please suggest how to achieve more clean look?
Well, I'd would need what you are trying to do, to make suggestions. I don't know how you're a telling to the AI what do you want.
But I can say one thing for sure. Even for a k-80, 6h is too much. I made tests and, 80% of times, images don't improve after 500 iterations. Eventually some improve until 1000 iterations or so, and time to time, until 1500.
Again, tell me more about what you are trying to do, and I'll try to help.
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I use VQGAN+CLIP method, imagenet_16384 and promt without init image. Turned out if I ask for a specific color a quality of image drops significantly. Idk why. It's very noisy and edges too sharp. But now it's much better when I don't ask for a specific color.
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To get a particular color asking for it to the AI doesn't work well, as you can see. You could try to add to your prompt, an artist who painted a lot of stuff in the color you like, and in a style that you like. I didn't make experiments to try to force the AI to use particular colors yet, so is not like I can say you anything else, sorry!
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The half-baked look is sometimes amazing, others times, well... Did it perhaps find some references from somebody who did oil paintings with a palette knife? I suppose PS would fix it
The AI splits the image in sections to work with it. They are not much noticeable in the Original notebook, but in the MSE, the one I use most of the time. So yes, it looks like palette knife but is not hehe.
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When I was a kid in the 70s all this bad art in oil with palette knives was popular so I was immediately reminded of the style
The boats and so, here it was too. I like the palette knives a lot... but when it is well done.
Oh noes, you had boats too?
Mediterranean and so...
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