Image AI – 3rd Self Portrait Experiment
Reading Time: 11 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. What happens when you train the AI image generator on hundreds of snapshots?
Month: October 2022
Cash for grass – public programs to eliminate thirsty lawns
Reading Time: 5 minutesIn California, we love our lawns. But now we’re learning that these green carpets are not only expensive to maintain, but also use a lot of water — up to 40 percent of all residential water use in the state each year! In a state that is increasingly concerned about the environment, more Californians are putting down the lawn mowers, digging up their grass and replacing it with drought-friendly rocks and plants.
Buzz Pollination grows more tomatoes
Reading Time: 3 minutesI buzz every flower for a second or two with that every day. I’ve gone from one or two flowers per cluster setting fruit, to all of them.
Generative AI – Self Portrait
Reading Time: 8 minutesCreate art from your likeness with Dreambooth and Stable Diffusion on Google Colab. You can do this yourself. It is free and easy on an ordinary computer.
AI Image Generators and Self Portraits
Reading Time: 8 minutesAI generated faces look amazingly real but are entirely synthetic. More figurative images seem to possess the same sensibility and style as those of well-known artists. Others present the format and perspective and scale of common art forms like character design and movie concept art. The cliché is, “I don’t know what art is, but I know it when I see it.” With AI generated images, people are seeing it a whole lot of images they like. But is it really art? I tried creating a self-portrait to answer the question.