Pencil-style experiment following this earlier one with structural reference via line-art ControlNet, essentially drawing portraits of one family member via the artistic style of another.
January 29, 2025
January 22, 2025
Dream earlier this morning
I joined a tour in Japan during SIGGRAPH (Asia?), but had difficulty following the tour guide in winding streets in a canal-like environment. Within the group were Szymon and Matt with whom we talked about old age. I realized that I can’t see clearly due to wearing a wrong pair of glasses with one lens missing, and tried to come back to the hotel by backtracking the original way. I found myself with another tour group which was on their way for returning, sat in front of Hao and Eric and got my head pat by Hao’s girlfriend.
This dream is a reflect of several real-word facts:
* My dry eyes sometimes caused blurry vision.
* I found pair of glasses on the ground near San Jose Diridon station last evening.
January 18, 2025
Sparkling wine bottles
Walked by this liquor store in TPE terminal 2 and found interesting these wine bottles as lampshades.
January 13, 2025
January 7, 2025
Community piano
Saw and photographed this cute community piano on September 24 2024 and finally got a chance to add some motion graphics to it.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/216256361/CommunityPiano
January 4, 2025
Painting style LoRA experiment
Watercolor painting and pencil sketching style experiments (conducted during company shutdown with some spare time and compute).
- Download tens of art works from my dad’s FB page.
- Train a LoRA over this ink style model.
- Generate outputs via prompts similar to the painting titles from the aforementioned FB page.
A few results look interesting while most are uncanny or boring.
My dad commented that AI cannot replace human artists.
January 2, 2025
Dinner after train 666
At the departing station for their evening train, he thought about ordering a meal box, but she preferred going for a restaurant at the destination station.
Upon arrival her original choice had a 20-minute wait, so they went to a nearby alternative.
It was slightly passing his usual dinner time, so he lost patience waiting for the food.
She looked flustered, but the food arrived soon after.
https://www.behance.net/gallery/215937081/SoftTrainNumber
December 30, 2024
Flipped middle toe
Draw from an earlier dream partially reflecting a jammed toe in reality.
December 16, 2024
Facial “lotion”
The facial “lotion” that I have been applying in the past fortnight turned out to be cleansing gel.