Confessions of a researchaholic

2022-09-17

Depicting a power sucking process running amok on a wearable device

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:45 pm
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A few days ago I noticed that my fitness tracker was losing power almost as fast as it could be charged, which turned out to be caused by a very power hungry background process. The issue was resolved by rebooting the device.

2022-09-14

Impression of an evening lamp over an utility cottage

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:42 pm
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I painted from impression the scene of this little cottage, built around utility equipments, lit by a nearby yellow lamp after dark.
(For more background information, I recommend this.)

Stable diffusion can work well for this case.

2022-09-11

I dreamed about making an U-turn on my bike over the side of a school bus

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 4:41 pm
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This is a dream I had over a year ago about taking a U-turn on my bike over the side of a school bus in a junction of the University avenue at Stanford university. (The dream might relate to my once getting stopped by a campus police for over-speeding on a bike.)
I have been having difficulty sketching what I saw in my dream, and finally decided to do the best I could with some visual references (bike turn, school bus).

Stable diffusion seems to have difficulty with such out-of-sample case.

Portrait of Satoshi Nakamoto

Filed under: Imaginary — liyiwei @ 11:39 am
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This is a light-hearted experiment to see if deep learning has somehow spotted Satoshi Nakamoto in the training data and could shed light on their real identity.

2022-09-09

img2img stable diffusion

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:32 pm
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I experimented with stable diffusion over some of my own manual drawings and here are the results.

2022-09-05

Impression of a sunset

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:39 pm
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Pink and blue left over
by the hot summer air in
the evening walk

2022-09-04

A caterpillar sleeping inside an avocado bed

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:34 am
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With the same subject title, I created multiple outcomes via manual drawing and DALL-E-2 with different styles hints.

digital art

natural illustration

oil painting by Rembrandt

manual painting with Fresco (took about an hour)

2022-09-03

Bite face

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 9:13 pm
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reference image source

2022-08-31

No-parking tree

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 5:44 pm
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I noticed how the no-parking ground marking seems to be crawling upon this tree near the Vancouver convention center, and envisioned these graphical effects.

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