Eric Workman

AI Art

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A few days ago, I stumbled upon https://is.gd/artmachine in some HN thread. I've looked into AI-based art generation before, and I've seen notebooks that attempt make it easy to run them. They never were that easy. The linked notebook, however, is easy. It's using Google Colab, and it takes a text prompt and some settings, then it iteratively generates images using machine learning.

If you don't know what VQGAN and CLIP are, then [Lj Miranda])(https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/notebook/2021/08/08/clip-vqgan/) has you covered.

The results are strange, fascinating to watch over time, and wild at times. Here are some of my favorites ones.

a skull like a skill

a skull like a skill

alien city

alien city

alien plant

alien plant

blackhole

blackhole

box full of nightmares 2

box full of nightmares 2

box full of nightmares

box full of nightmares

can we talk

can we talk

forbidden city

forbidden city

fossil

fossil

joy in a cup

joy in a cup

lizard robot

lizard robot

mondrian princess mononoke

mondrian princess mononoke

plant illustrration

plant illustrration

plant in vase

plant in vase

rainy night neon city 2

rainy night neon city 2

rainy night neon city early

rainy night neon city early

rainy night neon city

rainy night neon city

red planet volcano

red planet volcano

remote work

remote work

skyscraper

skyscraper

spooky

spooky

tropical plant

tropical plant

watercolor tianzi mountains

watercolor tianzi mountains

watercolor tree

watercolor tree