Media Arts and Technology

Spike introduced us today to deeviv.ai which was quite inspiring. He asked to test the video with my image of a truck in a tree in a lab:
and did a number of variations. I compiled them into a video using the Mac imovie.app and here it is: https://vimeo.com/1168732637

My plan is to continue to work with comfyUI to see what can be created that is time-based. The plan is to create short videos in which a still photograph will have some motion, for instance, visual elements moved around, or any other visual transition such as image details collapsing, turn around, i...

LORA with SDXL checkpoint LORA REFERENCE: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/basic/lora LORA in SEQUENCE: https://docs.comfy.org/tutorials/basic/multiple-loras MOTIVATION: To test the updated SDXL with Lora and using the two test images I used in Style transfer: 1) the colorful flower image and 2) th...

SITUATION: Turns out I was using the wrong checkpoint. I found this out by clicking on left of the far right button in the menyu that gave me a long error list, which I imported into claude.ai and it told me I was using the wrong checkpoint. I needed to uptdate it. METHODOLOGY: I tried a number of i...

MOTIVATION: Testing the variables in the Neural Style Transfer NODE METHODS: One image controls the style (what the image looks like) the other is connected to the content (form / shape). Each can be set between 1000 to 100000. I tried to go beyond but these seem to be the limit. this is where the c...

Exploring Style Transfer MOTIVATION: Style Transfer uses the style of one image which is transposed onto the content of the other. METHODOLOGY: There is a custom plug-in downloaded from here: https://github.com/zeroxoxo/ComfyUI-Fast-Style-Transfer This is the discussion about the engineering public...

A comfyUI XYPlot to print out each image individually MOTIVATION: In Automatic1111 when creating a XYPlot you get the grid of images, but you also get each individual image saved. So I want to do this in comfyUI. Maybe there is a workflow solution but I have not found it yet. METHODOLOGY: So ChatGP...

ComfyUI JSON WORKFLOW MOTIVATION: to have a reliable way to design a comfyui workflow I do the following: this is a space for code METHODOLOGY: . Come up with an image concept . Describe it in ChatGPT which produces a JSON file . I paste the JSON file into the comfyUI space EVALUATION: . With the J...

MOTIVATION: I am doing tests with XYPlots. Here are a few versions: METHODOLOGY DETAILS: . One uses controlnet and image input . One uses an image input but no control net . One uses no image input and no control net (I may have lost this one). EVALUATION / ANALYSIS . Outcome is what I expected but ...

MOTIVATION: This ComfyUI workflow takes two images to influence the outcome of a new image. I chose two unrelated images, one of a truck and one of a beach scene to test how the two unrelated images will work together. METHODOLOGY: Both images are at high resolution. They are unrelated and the idea ...