Holographic Mechanical Blueprint 2, Prelude 5 to Vibrant Beginnings
And finally we have arrived — the image posted titled “Vibrant Beginnings” was picked from this set of renders. In some ways, I know that the image I picked would not be the one that people will like the most from this set, mostly because images with faces tend to outperform images without. This is a fact based on user research. It’s one of the key reasons why you see banks and financial services putting a face onto images in their materials — it’s because humans relate better to faces.
But I posted the one without a face anyway because I’m not here to do advertising. I’m here to say something. And if you know who I am, then you’d know that the colors depicted in the image, together with the circular hologram, and the technical / scifi aspect of the illustration, as part of a magical transformation, combined with flowers, nature, and life, are metaphors to things that are fundamentally important to me and my identity. As such, I posted the ons I did — mostly because I made a wish that I will be more me in both identities, and to get to a point where I could possibly see both identities finally merging back as myself.
In many ways, the GD8 identity is the expression of my inner self — the part of me that I don’t ever let anyone see, but the anonymity allowed me to be free and thus can speak my truth in ways that I never thought was possible before. I have learned so much about myself after making this profile, mostly thanks to the very kind and passionate comments from all of you. I have made friends that I would never have been able to with my public identity — and have found very genuine people along this journey. For this, I’d like to thank you all for your support and kindness.
But wait — this is not the end of this project. I made more images after this. While I posted an image from this post… this iteration continues…
Tech
Mechanical Blueprint 2 / 2024-01-01 Prelude 5, Vibrant Beginnings
Prompt
Prompt: holographic mechanical blueprint reference diagram suspended in air, sci-fi movie, of a man, shirtless with leather running shorts, nike air max plus, vibrant color oil painting over pencil sketches, tattoo, leather pants, text annotations, labels, paragraphs, visual dictionary, cross section of a white lily, geometric math, algebra
Neg Prompt
woman, kids, children, thin
Stable Diffusion txt2img
- Steps: 8
- Sampler: Euler a
- CFG scale: 2.5
- Seed: 4017865083
- Face restoration: CodeFormer
- Size: 1024x1024
- Model hash: e6a9fff883
- Model: vibrantHorizonTurbo_v10
- VAE hash: 235745af8d
- VAE: sdxl_vae.safetensors
- ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt
- ADetailer prompt: handsome face
- ADetailer inpaint width: 512
- ADetailer inpaint height: 512
- ADetailer use separate steps: True
- ADetailer steps: 4
- ADetailer model 2nd: hand_yolov8n.pt
- ADetailer confidence 2nd: 0.6
- ADetailer dilate erode 2nd: 4
- ADetailer inpaint width 2nd: 512
- ADetailer inpaint height 2nd: 512
- ADetailer use separate steps 2nd: True
- ADetailer steps 2nd: 4
- ADetailer version: 23.11.1
- Version: v1.6.1
- Hashes: {“model”: “e6a9fff883”}
Post-Processing
- Upscale: Topaz Gigapixel HQ
- Size: 4096x4096
- Color: Adobe Lightroom
Prompt
cinematic film still sci-fi movie, holographic projection of reference diagrams, spaceship pilot, shirtless with liquid metal shorts, nike air max plus, oil painting over pencil sketches, glowing veins, tattoo, text annotations, labels, paragraphs, visual dictionary, cross section of alien flowers, math equations, formula, geometric patterns, vibrant color, asymetrical composition, colorful, light particles. shallow depth of field, vignette, highly detailed, high budget, bokeh, cinemascope, moody, epic, gorgeous, film grain, grainy
Negative Prompt
anime, cartoon, graphic, text, painting, crayon, graphite, abstract, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured, woman, kids, children, thin, symmetrical composition
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