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Adventures in Imagineering — I’m Outpainting the Discworld!
It’s been a pretty interesting few weeks for those interested in AI image generation. Things are happening fast and it might even be a bit hard to keep up with all that is going on. First, there was the arrival of Stable Diffusion. That was version 1.4 of the model, BTW.
This week, Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, has released version 1.5 of the model on their Discord servers. To be quite clear, the 1.5 version of the model is not publicly available to download yet, but it is available for you to try out via their bot on the Discord server.
And if you’re getting ready to run over there and try it out, hang on! There’s more 🙂 Today I woke up to an e-mail from OpenAI indicating that their AI image generation system, Dall-e, can now do Outpainting!
What’s Outpainting, you ask?
It’s basically the ability to generate an image via Dall-e and then add detail to it by literally expanding the canvas — you just add to the image by painting out from the original image! Still confused? OK, let me show you an example step-by-step …
First, I generated an image with my favourite Discworld prompt. (I’m obsessed with trying to create a perfect Discworld image and I’ve been trying out a lot of prompts without much success, believe me 🤪)
