Adventure in Imagineering – Getting Random

I previously talked about how I had been working with Stable Diffusion and that I also was creating a GUI for the image generator. Well, I re-wrote the GUI again since I wasn’t happy with how the previous version worked 😛

The thing that annoyed me the most was that wxPython sliders had no way to display floating point values. So, when a setting like guidance had to go from -15 to 30 with 0.1 intervals (just to be really picky), I had to actually set the slider to go from -150 to 300 and then divide the user setting by 10 afterwards.…

I figured out a more or less functional set up for running Stable Diffusion on my Apple M1 MacBook Pro a couple of days ago. Since then, I’ve mostly done Stable Diffusion tasks on my local machine instead of doing things on Google Colab (or Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab).

Working on the local machine, at least for me, gives me more time to think about what I’m doing and to try to improve upon the code.…

I’ve been writing a lot about Stable Diffusion (and image generation using AI) lately. That’s because providing a text prompt, getting an AI generated image back after a few seconds, and then improving upon your prompt to get the exact image you want can be so very addictive 🙂

But there’s a flip-side to the coin — those who can’t run AI systems like Stable Diffusion because their machines don’t support it.…

When I heard about Stable Diffusion, the first thing I wanted to do was install it on my Apple Silicon MacBook and try it out. Unfortunately, at that point, I couldn’t do so because Stable Diffusion required GPU support and there was no complete Metal GPU support at that point for PyTorch that you needed in order to test out Stable Diffusion.…

All of a sudden, all that anybody seems to talk about when it comes to AI-based image generation is Stable Diffusion from Stability AI. Not that that’s a bad thing, mind you 🙂

Till Stable Diffusion came along, if you wanted to do any image generation using AI, you either had to use the limited (in terms of free) image generation provided by Dall-e or MidJourney, or look at Google’s Imagen and simply hope/wish that one day you would have access to that kind of quality when generating images 😛

Sure, there are other alternatives like Craiyon, but the quality isn’t as good as that of Dall-e or its ilk.…