Syt's Pictorial Collection of Stuff and Things (image heavy)

[Syt]

Was tempted to put this in the AI doom thread.

End of 2022 I first tried out Midjourney. The initial prompts I gave (having no brilliant ideas) was "Painting of Super Mario as Napoleonic Marshal."

This was the result with V3 which was the current model at the time:



There was an experimental test version available too which delivered this:





V6.0 is in open alpha at the moment. The model has more parameters now, so I did two versions. One with the "default" stylization options:



And one with stylization options turned to minimum:



And since he looked so dour I tried the default stylization but adding "happy" to the prompt:





I guess the quality has been improved a bit.

For comparison, 5.2 at default settings:





A big change in 6.0 is adding the support for text rendering, though it's a bit hit and miss at the moment (DALL-E added it a few months back, though I'm not using it much due to its fierce blocking of anything resembling current IPs or living persons).

The prompts for the below were a fair bit more complex, plus adding the occasional reference image.




(Notice the typo on "Libertad", and it also struggles to convert the inverted !, rendering " instead)









It's still struggling to create a good image of Incan torpedo boats fighting the giant ants of Brest-Litowsk.

[Josquius]

You have a big  subscription to this?
I've often been tempted to try it but the price is off putting.

Interesting images anyway. I like hasta la Victoria.

[Syt]

I have the cheapest sub that gives unlimited relaxed (slow) generations at $24/month. You can only have 3 concurrent jobs on slow, and you may have to wait a bit, but at least you can use it as much as you like. It comes with 15 hours of fast generation. Plus, you can daily go on the website and "Rate Images" where it shows you two images and you click the one you like better. If you're in the top 2000 raters of the day you get a bonus "fast" hour. Getting into that level takes five to ten minutes of fast clicking or so, so it's fairly easy to reach. Currently, I feel I get very good results by taking an image I like, tell ChatGPT to create a natural language prompt for that kind of image (V6 of Midjourney prefers natural language prompt over comma separated tags) and then use/tweak that as prompt for Midjourney, esp. when using fantasy art or paintings.

[Syt]

From Reddit. Iranian anti-nazi propaganda, 1942:











Love the little Goebbels devil

[Syt]

The Masters of the Universe video sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I tracked down some toys I had when I was very little that I inherited from ... my sisters? Someone else? At any rate, my memories of them were from when I was 5 or 6, and I wasn't sure if I made them up, tbh.

Timpo toys. They had cowboys, Indians native Americans , knights, Romans, French foreign legion .... each about 5 cm or so (2 inches) tall.

They were awesome, because they were incredibly detailed for the time. And they were modular. E.g. you could mix/match torsos and legs, in some cases heads (in case of cowboys heads and hats were separate parts, even), belts, weapons ....

Of course that also posed a major problem for little kids. Those parts (esp. the little pistols) were VERY easy to lose, and other items (e.g. bridles on horses, some weapons like flails, rifles ... ) were VERY easy to break accidentally. But for a little kid into all things history those were absolutely awesome

[Jacob]

I had some of those cowboys, I'm pretty sure.

[Syt]

Had our annual team retreat this week. Two nights in a very nice spa/wellness hotel in the Salzburg area (and waaay out of my normal price range ... ).

Anyways, when I first checked into my room, this painting hung over the sofa:



I thought surely I was overthinking it, because why would a blood spattered face adorn my otherwise very relaxing room?

Well, turns out that (according to the text written in mirrored handwriting) this is meant to be Oedipus after blinding himself.

Cheerful.

[Razgovory]

Makes sense.  It looks like a mean motherfucker.

[Syt]

Cleaning up my hard drive, came across some older AI images I made:

Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz during the Dust Bowl:





Pippi Longstocking in a bar in the 70s or 80s:





Little Timmy serving in Vietnam:

[Tonitrus]

Now instead of falling down the well, Timmy is going in to clear out VC.

[Valmy]

Somewhat disappointed by the lack of dustbowl Toto.

[Syt]

Somewhat disappointed by the lack of dustbowl Toto.

He was quite nutritious.

[Syt]

When I was asking it for Winnie the Pooh and Poglet as British soldiers in the trenches of WW1 I was expecting many things, but not something so cute but also kinda weirdly depressing?


 

[The Brain]

Cool pics.

[Valmy]

Pooh looks like he was just told that the artillery barrage knocked out all the barbed wire in front of the honey and he can advance with confidence.