Confessions of a researchaholic

February 25, 2024

Voronoi cookies

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:50 pm
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I placed the cookie batter drops too close to one another and they expanded into Voronoi regions during baking: photo, and the “corrected” version by ComfyUI image-to-image with (de)noise value 0.5 and v1-5-pruned-dmaonly checkpoint.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/192421251/VoronoiCookies

Missed opportunity

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 3:45 pm
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When I boarded Caltrain 313 at San Jose on Thursday February 22, 2024, I saw a guy deep in sleep with his head resting on the window. The face constituted an excellent drawing subject but I decided to finish my dinner first. Then the train conductor came to check tickets, and the guy had none and was asked to leave the train at the next stop.

Afterwards I did a quick sketch from visual impression and produced a variation via image-2-image diffusion. Neither could catch the original face which I could better capture on spot.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/186107513/PortraitsMotoGStylus/modules/1088458927

February 21, 2024

Visualizing dreams

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 6:19 pm
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One main reason that I would like to be able to draw is to share what I saw in my dreams which tend to be vivid and unusual. This is difficult enough due to both the required skills and the ephemeral nature of dreams. But how about visualizing other people’s dreams based on their descriptions?

https://www.behance.net/gallery/192128691/BakeryHouseDream

February 11, 2024

Murakami monster drawing experiment

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:47 pm
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Based on a (human-sized) monster sculpture by Takashi Murakami that I saw in a recent exhibition I did a quick rough drawing via Fresco with outlines and color-fills in separate layers, and then fed the outlines-only and color-fills versions to an image-to-image ComfyUI workflow. The results are very interesting and capture the style of the original artist quite well.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/191299777/TakashiMurakamiMonsterSculpture

January 30, 2024

Group urban hike

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:27 pm
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As part of the lab offsite, we took an urban hike between 601 Townsend Street and the Mission-Dolores Park. The weather was unusually nice for January in San Francisco, and this is actually the first time I walked through the neighborhood between Mission and SoMa which has this interesting industry-under-the-highway feel.

https://www.behance.net/gallery/190359367/ExteriorMotoGStylus/modules/1076608513

January 28, 2024

A beautiful day

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 6:20 pm
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After finishing a demo in the morning, I drove to San Francisco, listening to Edvard Greig’s piano concerto (A minor, opus 16) on the way, and went to the Legion of Honor to see Boticelli’s drawings, which I finished on time by avoiding reading all the descriptions.

It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining and Golden Gate bridge visible from the museum.

January 20, 2024

Sleeping profile

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 4:54 pm
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Rainy Saturday, writing, drawing.


https://www.behance.net/gallery/189507309/SleepingProfileSofa

January 17, 2024

Learning addiction

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 2:18 pm
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I avoid Duolingo Pro so that I won’t have enough hearts to to too many exercises.

January 14, 2024

Chewie

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 9:53 pm
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The dog slept a lot and thus remained stationary for a good drawing subject.



https://www.behance.net/gallery/188961613/ChewieJan2024

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