Ich habe Dinge gesehen, die ihr Menschen niemals glauben würdet. Gigantische Schiffe, die brannten, draußen vor der Schulter des Orion. Und ich habe C-Beams gesehen, glitzernd im Dunkel, nahe dem Thannhäuser-Tor. All diese Momente werden verloren sein... in der Zeit, so wie... Tränen im Regen - Blade Runner
Used Technologies: currently mostly Stable Diffusion XL, Deforum, AnmateDiff, ControlNet
Inspired by: William Turner, John Robert Cozens, Joseph Rebell, Heather Teurer, Dimitra Milan, John Martin, Markus Vesper, Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski, Tithi Luadthong, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, Bastien Lecouffe-Deharme, Gerald Brom, Frederic Remington, Albert Bierstadt, Edwin Landseer, Ary Scheffer, Steve Argyle, Simon Stalenhag and many more
With special thanks to Patrick Esser, Robin Rombach, Basu Jindal, automatic1111, Emad Mostaque, r/StableDiffusion, huggingface, civit.ai (and everyone else working on diffusion technologies)
Technology eplained:
Latent space may be high-dimensional, complex, and nonlinear. A Stable Wizard casts prompt spells which summons conceptoids from the depths of latent space. Some of them may even look human at a glance, but I assure you they are not. Generally you can can tell a latent space denizen apart from a mundane human by looking at their number of fingers. Sometimes the distinction is lot more obvious in nature.
A highly experienced Arch-Stablelemancer can bring forth highly realistic constructs which can fool nearly any observer. The Stablemancer achieves such results via the thousand-try summoning or by sketching the shape of the person in the air and then correcting the irregular or twisted parts of the conceptoid with the repeated use of the img2img spell (edit: artificiers may use the magic Photoshop wand too).
~Excerpt from the Magisterium of Stable Waifucation Lecture (by alexiuss)
Technology eplained:
A wise Stable Wizard with a background in the ancient and established art of Chromaticism may opt to combine their interests to the greater benefit of each. Between uses of the img2img spell, a skilled Chromaticist may take advantage of certain liquification methods or chromatic multiplication and addition, to make their intention more clear to the unthinking arcane mind of latent space, thereby avoiding hours of frustrating dice-rolling.
Isolating features within the resulting amalgamation of latent concepts, the Wizard may use a detail-enhancing scalar incantation for finer alterations. Though one ought to take care when returning the resulting fragment back to the larger whole, as excessive differences in chromatic quantum dimension may result in distortions. And, should the Wizard struggle to seek out the desired forms through the latent cosmos, the dark art of acquiring vestiges of true life to impose over latent forms ought not be overlooked. Ensure, however, at each step that carefully manipulated veils between forms blend each concept seamlessly.
Lastly, by passing the forms shallowly back through latent space, the Wizard may discover some alterations reinforce and preserve coherency within the final amalgamation, avoiding certain amateur pitfalls such as inconsistency of chromatic orientation and value, or quality of detail.
~Excerpt from a lecture on combined disciplines, from the Magisterium of Stable Research (by FourFlamesNinja)