Confessions of a researchaholic

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

A dried spider found under a heat wave

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 5:27 pm
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Dried spider found on
the scorching stone ground baked
by a heat wave

Natural authoring modalities

Filed under: Real — liyiwei @ 11:32 am
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The technology has finally reached the point for which content can start to be authored via natural language and gesture (including drawing) instead of unnatural WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer).
The state of art (e.g., DALL-E-2) can already be part of the content creation toolbox, and future advances may soon obsolete legacy tools.

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.

2022-08-29

Sumika takeout receipt

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 10:19 pm
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I envisioned this graphical version of the text receipt from a recent restaurant takeout.

https://youtu.be/9lw_dInSXOA

2022-08-27

I see a ghost in a horse painting

Filed under: Imaginary,Real — liyiwei @ 6:25 pm
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A horse painting that used to hang on a high wall recently broke its rope and fell to the ground, which gave me a chance to close examine it and spot this white ghost hidden within the broad brush strokes.

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