🌊 River's Journey
What do you think? 😄
Is that real image converted by ai or pure ai random creation or did you worked and inpainted? Asking because it feels mostly natural and it has calm demeanor.
Shifty
Shifty
Yeah, it's pure ai, though you know how generative ai isn't really "generative" in any sense of the word.... XD I mean a true generative algorithm I think is something like fractals, perlin noise or voronoi diagrams, the stuff that generates images without using any data... But then again, I don't believe that linear matrix math based on prebuilt fixed weights has anything to do with the word "intelligence" either lol.
So "pure ai" it is, whatever that means XDD It's like "dark matter" which is neither "dark" nor "matter" but is called dark matter for the lulz. But yeah, I didn't use any real photos here, though I'm pretty sure the creators of Reliberate, SeekYou Mikan and Flux.1 Dev (the 3 models used to create this image) had vast datasets with a bunch of landscapes :3
So "pure ai" it is, whatever that means XDD It's like "dark matter" which is neither "dark" nor "matter" but is called dark matter for the lulz. But yeah, I didn't use any real photos here, though I'm pretty sure the creators of Reliberate, SeekYou Mikan and Flux.1 Dev (the 3 models used to create this image) had vast datasets with a bunch of landscapes :3
Yeah "generative" models aren't ai, but that term is broad enough to work even in future when they get more complex in few years. Those today are like first x86 Intel chips in 70s.
Still even today they are usable to create approximation of some real world concept and then the trick is to align result with your own vision somehow more.
Fractals are "universe artist" going lazzy after learning some deep math things :D or we are bound to percieve existence in some way and fractals are just the thing we see.
I see so you are "fluxing" :-) but thanks for telling that you are combining multiple models. Now that seems like quite good approach to "center" on some aspects each model independently learned to create backbone of image which align with our real world experience more than single modal can and then put into it your own "spirit" and skill.
Shifty
Still even today they are usable to create approximation of some real world concept and then the trick is to align result with your own vision somehow more.
Fractals are "universe artist" going lazzy after learning some deep math things :D or we are bound to percieve existence in some way and fractals are just the thing we see.
I see so you are "fluxing" :-) but thanks for telling that you are combining multiple models. Now that seems like quite good approach to "center" on some aspects each model independently learned to create backbone of image which align with our real world experience more than single modal can and then put into it your own "spirit" and skill.
Shifty
Yeah, the terms people use can be super odd, for example it still makes me cringe every single time someone refers to a powerful desktop computer as a mere "device" XD
Fractals are at least pure math without data... I was going to mention wave function collapse which is a cool algorithm for procedurally generated maps for games but then realized it's probably not pure math and also requires some weight tables... ;D
I have no idea how to make a picture like this in Flux - I tried but it's unable to produce this style. I only used it to fix some small details but the picture overall looked exactly the same before Flux, just some tiny details had those random AI-like artifacts and Flux made it much cleaner. I think the picture overall is mostly a product of Reliberate and the watercolor-ish style is thanks to SeekYou Mikan and some ControlNet.
Fractals are at least pure math without data... I was going to mention wave function collapse which is a cool algorithm for procedurally generated maps for games but then realized it's probably not pure math and also requires some weight tables... ;D
I have no idea how to make a picture like this in Flux - I tried but it's unable to produce this style. I only used it to fix some small details but the picture overall looked exactly the same before Flux, just some tiny details had those random AI-like artifacts and Flux made it much cleaner. I think the picture overall is mostly a product of Reliberate and the watercolor-ish style is thanks to SeekYou Mikan and some ControlNet.
I live on a mountain in the middle of a desert. Even thousands of feet in the air, there's still natural springs that constantly flow and make creeks that eventually turn into little waterfalls when they hit a cliff. It's like the neverending water features in a Zelda game. I look down and see nothing but sand and scrub brush, but it's shockingly green and lush up here most of the time. This pic really reminds me of a specific place up here where one of the fountainheads comes up from the ground and it is super lush all around it. This is really calming, and I love the painterly style of it.
-tbj
-tbj
Somehow it brings joy thinking that this image might be connected to something real beyond my imagination. I've been living in the same room for over three decades, only stepping out once a week to buy food, even though I don't have any valid reasons, physical or mental limitations - just feelings of total disinterest in every aspect of this world. Not some puny "depression" - the favored label of money-greedy charlatans - but a profound inability to see a single reason why this whole reality exists in the first place. But somehow it always brings joy when others are able to appreciate beauty that eludes me.
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