#Theme: A photograph displaying contrast that mirrors an aspect of reality that is splintered in a subtle way into an alternate reality.
#My Prompt in Dalle3: Create a photograph of a blossoming tree in a meadow surrounded by a forest that looks dark and gloomy. Make the photograph 16:9. The blossoming tree is secretly composed of pixels that are barely holding onto reality, splinter, broken, tortured, altered colors, surreal.
#Rules:
Follow the community’s rules above all else
One comment and image per user
Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
Posts that are tied will both get the points
The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
#Prize | Points
• Most upvoted | +3 points
• Second most upvoted | +2 point
• Third most upvoted | +1 point
• OP’s favorite | +1 point
• Most original | +1 point
• Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point
• Prompt and workflow included | +1 point
The winner gets to pick next theme! Best inspirations for everyone and have fun!
#Past entries post: https://lemmy.world/post/13802673
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Considering the syncing problems with lemmy.world, I’ve recalculated the scores. Taking @[email protected]’s scores for workflow, most original and favorite into account.
Name Image Upvotes Awards Points Upvote score Total score @[email protected] Cheese Hand 10 Workflow, Most Original, Most upvotes 2 3 5 @[email protected] Road pixel crack 9 Workflow, 2nd most upvotes 1 2 3 @[email protected] Splintered window 8 Workflow, 3rd most upvotes 1 1 2 @[email protected] City torn apart 7 Workflow 1 0 1 @[email protected] Angry Sailor Moon 7 0 0 0 @[email protected] False Vacuum 6 Workflow 1 0 1 @[email protected] Matrix Moon 5 Last Two entries, Workflow 2 0 2 @[email protected] Semi-aged Sailor Moon 5 Workflow 1 0 1 @[email protected] Double exposure city 5 Last two entries, OP Favorite, Workflow 3 0 3 @[email protected] Witch 5 Workflow 1 0 1 @[email protected] Interconnected 4 Workflow 1 0 1 @[email protected], can you see if these scores are correct with the upvotes I’ve provided?
Looks spot on to me!!
I guess that makes me the winner. Feels so weird to end the challenge this way, but I guess that’s how it’ll have to be.
Thank you for the wonderful challenge! The next challenge is already up.Winner winner chicken dinner!
Prompt: a distortion in the fabric of space and time, photo of a hand which devolves and transitions into twisted fractal dimensions at the edges --ar 4:3I tried to do subtle, but I guess I’m just not the subtle type :)
And a couple of runner-ups:
I’m really bad these kinds of technical challenges, but it was fun to try.
Beautiful and disgusting at the same time. I don’t want to look at it but I can’t look away.
Yea, sorry about that… It wasn’t my intention to turn to body horror, but I do love the end result.
Like happy trees, no accidents, just happy terrifying visages!
This looks rad! Quite spooky as well
Thanks!
Ever dipped your hand into a pot of heated mozzarella?
not THAT hot!
I mean… erm… no… never…
I had a feeling that Stable Diffusion wouldn’t be able to generate what I was looking for, and I was right. So I turned to Dalle, which gave me some okay, but bland images. Then I took ideas from those and went to MidJourney where I got some beautiful images, but just not quite right. But I got some more stylizing ideas from those. Back to Dalle and got a good, but still bland image. Now it’s SD to the rescue!
I started with inpainting the the surrounding cityscape bit by bit using one of my favorite realistic models Photon. Then with the Unstable Diffusers Nihilmania SDXL model, I proceeded to fix up the crack in the street. First the outline of the cracks, and then the inside with the Pixel Art XL lora.
Original Dalle prompt:
realistic digital art, a deserted city street at dusk, shimmering with the soft glow of street lamps, parts of the asphalt crack wide open, subtly revealing bright, pulsating binary code beneath, widescreen aspect ratioDigimon vibes
Holy crap that’s beautiful! I clearly still have so much to learn.
Thanks! Endless youtube videos and experimentation for a year help a bit
Am still early in that cycle then! I hope to be there soon.
Btw, I forgot to mention that the pixels of the tree being pulled away looks really cool.
Thank you!
this, with 9 votes, seems to be the 2nd most, after thelsim’s 10
Yeah for whatever reason I didn’t see it that way when I looked at it and still don’t. No idea what the deal is.
They’re both the same to me even when I use incognito. Clearly I don’t understand or am doing something wrong.
do you mean incognito mode in a browser or anonymous mode of an app?
In a browser.
The original Dalle image
glass windows reflection, splintered reality fracture, realistic realism photograph, graffiti on abandoned broken building city wall in London downtown, (farm land), portal crack, half pixel, rainbow fractal split cut in half, oil on canvas paint, angelic, surreal abstract (((digital crisp definition fragmented fragment crack))), beautiful jungle plants, (fractal pixel art style, corrupted rift), high definition, 4k ultra quality, innovative, experimental, intricate detail, sublime, vivid colors, warm lightThe colors are fantastic!!
Prompt:the world slowly splintering into fragments, city being ripped apart on the molecular level shot on 70mm film stock --v 6.0
Pretty sure I’ve had this nightmare before! Lol
voilà, I’ve joined the evil forces of moo & poo!
chosen over
no “alternate reality” in this one :/Nooooooo! Now there’s two of them! :)
thanks for nothing :)
😂
nice clever entry :)
I remembered an article about False Vacuum (Wikipedia) when i thought about this challenge. We see the remains of an alternate reality, condensed to this little “Stone” by the pressure of our reality.
Made with comfyui, using outpainting. The workflow should be embedded in this picture (Catbox).
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- closeup of a flat polished transparent stone on a forest floor. Inside of the stone is a snowy eldritch landscape with a tiny eldritch hut, purple glowing windows
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- dreamshaperXL_v21TurboDPMSDE
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The generation Process of the Base Image needs only 6 Steps at a CFG of 3 Thanks to the turbo Model.
The Outpainting needs 60 Steps and a CFG of 8.
workflow should be embedded into the picture
Unfortunately, I think lemmy strips the metadata as a safety precaution so people don’t accidentally share their GPS coordinates when posting photos from their phones. A third party file sharing host is often used for sharing images with workflows intact, such as Google Drive, Catbox, etc.
Thank you for this valuable info. I did not realize this and should have tested this. I will put the original image in the post.
Edit: I´ve added the original image via Catbox in the top Post.
Gorgeous!
Help me understand how you know how many steps are required if you wouldn’t mind. I use A1111 but have always left the steps at the default setting.
Short Answer: It depends on the model, the sampler you choose and the scheduler.
In my experience: the more steps you use , the more detail you get but with diminishing returns the higher you go with your step count. Also the more steps, the more generation time (and room heating) you have.
We also have now the “Turbo” Models which generate good images at a relatively low step count. For the turbo Models, you are a bit restricted regarding scheduler and sampler., but you get a detailed description for the model on the civitai Page. For example the civitai Page (CIVIT AI) of the model used for this Picture.
For the “normal” (SDXL in this case) Models: Tiral and error. I normally use a xy Plot to check things like CFG Scale or Steps out.
Here an example XY Plot for the Model SDXLFaetastic_v24. Testing different CFG Values and Steps with a constant sampler and scheduler. I´ve used the same Prompt as for the base image for the contest picture (Screenshot of the Plot, the original Image has 120MB:
In the original Plot you see differences at different step counts.
🤯, I thought for sure my knowledge of these tools was getting to be complete. I have so much more to learn! I’m excited. Thank you!
I´ve added the 120 MB xy Plot via Catbox into the comment above. Thanks to @[email protected] for the info that catbox exists.
That’s really helpful! I will dig into those settings for sure now.
You won! You get to pick the next round!
Hi there, i do not want to steal the win from the mighty cheesehand! If i go directly to the post on https://sh.itjust.works, cheese hand has 10 upvotes.
I think something is still wrong with lemmyworld. The cheese hand is the most upvoted with 10. Check out the host instance page https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai
I just confirmed on the lemmyworld Matrix chat that there was a problem with some inbound events getting lost that was only resolved a couple days ago. So any lemmyworld users can’t see stuff that happened during a certain time frame.
I don’t see that at all, another comment talks about not everybody being able to see everything. I changed on two apps and a laptop and I have no cheese hands…
Did you go to the link I gave instead of through the lemmyworld instance?
I did and it just brought up this thread and I don’t see it there. Not sure if it’s because I’m logged into the Lemmy.world instance?
Might be. You can try opening it in a private/incognito tab.
Agreed, still I can’t see it. So strange.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
“Cheese hand” they say! 😭
First the mozzarella joke and now this. All the intended mystique and other worldly vibes, gone.
All I can see now is Cheese Hand :(Granted, it is hard to unsee once you start thinking of cheese :)
Anyway, there has been a problem syncing with Lemmyworld. Apparently a bunch of updates are just lost. I already unpinned/pinned the posts again. So they should be properly pinned for everyone. But do let me know if something is still wrong.
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just a cute little entry. Let’s see what happens! :)
spoiler
prompt: mythic superwitch that eternally curses the entire area if downvoted for the third week in a row, (fracturing reality), (((absolutely beautiful))), ((ripping apart reality to get her way)), (crushing insignificant humans), (((haunting))), (((chilling))), (((foreboding))), Illustration, ((escalating vengeance)), (spreading decay)
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a double exposure photo of shops in Times Square, New York. The main image is modern day, but the faint double exposure is from around 1900
Great concept idea!
That’s genius! I love it. How did you come up with the idea?
At first I wanted Bing to make some subtle graphical artefact but Bing doesn’t understand subtlety. Then I thought of “spirit photography” which should fit the theme. The result wasn’t exactly what I expected it to be, but looked quite interesting.
Thanks. I really enjoyed the challenge this time. Glad you liked it.
It’s fantastic!
Not subtle, but I like it.
Prompt in the bingilator (first try but did 9 overall): A half harvest moon sailor moon. one half is a old black and white picture, the other a cartoon.
Looks great, I’m still confused on the Sailor Moon love. I missed the wave due to my age but my brothers had friends who loved her.
i have no idea what sailorMoon is 😁
Even Naruto was a mystery for me till 2 years ago when i sat down and read the manga (upto a point!) in order just to understand the kids, why they run with their arms backwards 🤷 + all the other references on popular media
i guess i’ll do the same soon with sailorMoon too
I should do the same. But my kids never got into this person, I did all the others except Sponge Bob. The media I strictly prohibited when I was around, that laugh… Torture has to be less painful than that!
🎶Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon.
'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes.
That make me think the wrong thing 🎶😂
Wow, this was tricky to find since it’s not stickied!
Here is the outcome of a lot of tweaks that started with the prompt in Dalle: “create an ultra detailed image of New York City with a glitch in the matrix”.
I’m guessing there is a problem with federation to lemmy.world. Another user from that instance is having the same problem. Check the home instance of this community at https://sh.itjust.works/c/imageai. It also shows as pinned on the sopuli.xyz instance.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Bad bot
The matrix like effect with the moon and the city is chefs kiss!
We’re interconnected - good chemistry
Prompt @ Dall-E:
A photorealistic portrait of a woman and a man standing front to front at the edge of a forest, looking at each other, their skin is partly composed of subtle tiny molecules. It is visible that through the molecules they are interwoven with nature and the forest and everything. The image is displaying the connection between the human reality and the world of chemistry.
I love the message and imagery here.
no broccoli in the prompt 🤔
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oh 💩! this won’t be easy 🙂
you worked for a month to get sd to do that.
The theme is the means and not the end.
You weren’t kidding… It took over four hours 😵💫
back in mid january i took it as a challenge to imitate ballShapedMan’s style with stableDiffusion and saw how sd was having difficulties to recreate what bsm was doing with, iirc, dall-e at the time. Some weeks later bsm too started using sd and i followed here and on mastodon too how he worked for weeks to find his way back to his style. I wasn’t kidding indeed.
![[Community Challenge 29] Splintered Reality](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a5e2379-9e6e-4763-94dd-86a88be50147.webp){kind=link}
