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Roman Baths Selfie
February 21, 2024
by GymDreams Taking a selfie at the Roman Baths
Roman Baths Selfie
One of the most important things that AI enabled is the ability to dream and to imagine — and to allow anyone to ask the questions… “what if…” and “why not?”
Stable Diffusion txt2img. ComfyUI with ComfyBox, a GUI interface for ComfyUI, without the spaghetti-ness of the native UI. Highly recommended for memory efficiency and usability.
Steps: 8, Sampler: dpmpp_sde_gpu, CFG scale: 3.0, Seed: 692307214504452, Size: 1024x1024, Model: vibrantHorizonTurbo_v20.safetensors, Scheduler: karras, Denoise: 1.0.
Tech notes: no adetailer, no hires fix. Some limb issues in a few images but I learned the importance of leaving evidence of tech capabilities so that it’s possible to look back and realized how far the tech has come.
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Roman Baths Series
Roman Baths, aka Thermae, are bath complexes that served as social and recreational spaces for bathing, relaxation, and socializing in ancient Rome.
Selfie Series
The Selfie is a commentary about selfies seen all over Instagram. It is a technical challenge, made to see if I could replicate that same look and feel from selfies that are casually snapped, and as such with a figure situated in a surrounding that’s not tidied up. AI is great at making perfect things, so creating surroundings that are natural and messy poses its unique sets of challenges. This series originally started as a joke, but was generally very well received. I also tend to get so many DMs every time I post them because most people don’t read description and they always asked if it’s me. Short answer: no, but the first two me in this series is based on someone special in my heart.