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    <updated>2024-03-30T17:19:26-04:00</updated>
    <author>
        <name>Hal Rottenberg</name>
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    <entry>
        <title>Poetic Prompt Challenge 1: A poetic mech</title>
        <author>
            <name>Hal Rottenberg</name>
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        <updated>2024-03-30T17:19:26-04:00</updated>
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                    <p>This challenge was posted to our <a href="https://discord.gg/qzJdTBSHcS">ai:1 art:1 chat:1 Discord</a>:</p>
<p class="msg msg--info">Take an image and try to recreate it by writing a poem as the prompt</p>
<p>I started with this image, which was a random choice I'd recently created:</p>
<figure class="post__image post__image--center" ><img loading="lazy" src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/ComfyUI_0006.webp" alt="" width="400" height="400" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-xs.webp 300w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-sm.webp 480w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-md.webp 768w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-lg.webp 1024w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-xl.webp 1360w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-2xl.webp 1600w">
<figcaption >Starting image</figcaption>
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            <![CDATA[
                <p>This challenge was posted to our <a href="https://discord.gg/qzJdTBSHcS">ai:1 art:1 chat:1 Discord</a>:</p>
<p class="msg msg--info">Take an image and try to recreate it by writing a poem as the prompt</p>
<p>I started with this image, which was a random choice I'd recently created:</p>
<figure class="post__image post__image--center" ><img loading="lazy" src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/ComfyUI_0006.webp" alt="" width="400" height="400" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-xs.webp 300w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-sm.webp 480w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-md.webp 768w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-lg.webp 1024w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-xl.webp 1360w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/ComfyUI_0006-2xl.webp 1600w">
<figcaption >Starting image</figcaption>
</figure>

<p>Instead of making something locally using Stable Diffusion as I usually do, I figured this challenge would probably go best with Dall-E 3, due to its advanced prompt following skills (well, so long as you don't offend its tender sensibilities anyway).</p>
<p>Here was my first go, which was really an accident as I hit enter before I really got anywhere with it 😀</p>
<figure ><figure class="post__image post__image--center"><img loading="lazy"  src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/2Q.png" alt="" width="512" height="512" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-xs.png 300w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-sm.png 480w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-md.png 768w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-lg.png 1024w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-xl.png 1360w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/2Q-2xl.png 1600w"></figure>
<figcaption >On one fine misty spring morning, I took a walkabout </figcaption>
</figure>
<p>But here is the real deal, which I was quite pleased with. Check out the poem below the image.</p>
<figure ><figure class="post__image post__image--center"><img loading="lazy"  src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/poetic-mech.png" alt="" width="512" height="512" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-xs.png 300w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-sm.png 480w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-md.png 768w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-lg.png 1024w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-xl.png 1360w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/3/responsive/poetic-mech-2xl.png 1600w"></figure>
<figcaption >A poetic mech</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>And the poetic prompt:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>On one fine misty spring morning, I took a walkabout<br>Still in my silvered battle mech armor, atop my black firesuit <br>A silly sight my slim figure made, looking into the distance <br>    with a carpet bag over my shoulder!</p>
<p>The trail ends at the grassy shore of a curving brook, edged with rocks big and small</p>
<p>A welcoming sight in the distance! This ancient Chinese traveler <br>may soon find her rest for the eve</p>
<p>I am met with two rustic buildings, perhaps a tavern and a farmhouse?</p>
<p>The eaves under the upturned roof are beckoning to me</p>
<p>The porch seems to have a chair with my name carved on it</p>
<p>The bushes near, the mountains afar -- I am home</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I'm no master of meter, but this did the trick for me.</p>
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    <entry>
        <title>Some recent generations</title>
        <author>
            <name>Hal Rottenberg</name>
        </author>
        <link href="https://halr9000.com/some-recent-generations/"/>
        <id>https://halr9000.com/some-recent-generations/</id>

        <updated>2024-03-30T14:19:42-04:00</updated>
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<figure class="gallery__item"><a href="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/2/gallery/9019249c-e4c8-4bc8-bd41-dc1bd739aba3.webp" data-size="256x145"><img loading="lazy" src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/2/gallery/9019249c-e4c8-4bc8-bd41-dc1bd739aba3-thumbnail.webp" alt="" width="256" height="145"></a></figure>
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<figure class="gallery__item"><a href="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/2/gallery/ComfyUI_0022.webp" data-size="1344x768"><img loading="lazy" src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/2/gallery/ComfyUI_0022-thumbnail.webp" alt="" width="720" height="411"></a></figure>
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    <entry>
        <title>Check out InstantID, an amazing photo styler</title>
        <author>
            <name>Hal Rottenberg</name>
        </author>
        <link href="https://halr9000.com/check-out-instantid-an-amazing-photo-styler/"/>
        <id>https://halr9000.com/check-out-instantid-an-amazing-photo-styler/</id>
            <category term="ai-art"/>

        <updated>2024-01-23T20:21:09-05:00</updated>
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                    This image looks like it MIGHT be someone I know in the future "Put your face in any style" is the claim made by the authors of the paper titled:&nbsp;InstantID : Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds. You don't have to know what this means, as&hellip;
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    <figure class="post__image post__image--center">
      <img loading="lazy" src="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/ComfyUI_0001-2.webp" height="1536" width="1016" alt="an image processed with the InstantID technique being discussed in this article"  sizes="100vw" srcset="https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-xs.webp 300w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-sm.webp 480w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-md.webp 768w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-lg.webp 1024w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-xl.webp 1360w ,https://halr9000.com/media/posts/1/responsive/ComfyUI_0001-2-2xl.webp 1600w">
      <figcaption>This image looks like it MIGHT be someone I know in the future</figcaption>
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  <p>
    "Put your face in any style" is the claim made by the authors of the paper titled:&nbsp;<a href="https://instantid.github.io/">InstantID : Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds</a>. You don't have to know what this means, as the team spent a lot of time providing examples and comparisons to previous techniques. This stuff moves so fast -- I was evaluating one of them the day before writing this article, which had also been recently introduced!&nbsp;<br>
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    <blockquote class="blockquote">
      Our model supports identity-preserving generation in high fidelity with only single reference image in any style.<br>
<br>We can achieve competitive results as LoRAs without any training.
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  <p>
    Expect to see even more "face cloning" or "selfie styling" apps and services and features over the next few months. This stuff was already possible for most of a year, but you really needed many photos, careful preparation, and a lot of expensive GPU time to do it well. Not anymore. I have this running on my PC now, takes 30 seconds on my mid-range GPU.
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<br>There's definitely two sides to this, as with most anything.
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  <p class="msg msg--warning">
    We are now at the point that you should not blindly trust photographic evidence without additional context or other verifiable measures!&nbsp;<br>
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