Steampunk Girl #8

Like the rest of the world, I've been playing around with AI generated art. In my case, I've been using Stable Diffusion UI. Stable Diffusion UI is an easy to install variation of Stable Diffusion that also includes a GUI. I was able to get running on both Windows and Linux without much effort. While the included GUI is a nice convenience, the easy install was what appealed to me the most though I have been using the GUI as well.

To get speedy results you need a decent GPU. However, you don't need a GPU to use Stable Diffusion UI as long as you have patience. If you don't have a GPU and use only the CPU, each image will take a long time to produce. It can take thirty minutes or more depending on your hardware and the settings you use. However, this is open source software so you can generate as many images as you want for free. The end result is that even with limited hardware, you can still produce unlimited images as long as you are patient.

This is another steampunk themed portrait that I think came out pretty well. The one thing that seems more noticeable with the "steampunk" prompt vs. the "cyberpunk" prompt and a couple of others I have tried is how indistinct some of the details have been. Gears show up as you might expect in steampunk imagery but they aren't necessarily well formed or symmetrical, especially when it comes to the teeth. The same things is true with clock faces and other details. These things aren't noticeable at a glance but become obvious when you look closely. The steampunk aspects are actually very minimal in this image. While using prompts like cyberpunk and cyborg tend to generate images with strong features related to the prompt, steampunk prompts have been all over the place. If you didn't know steampunk was in the prompt, it might not even come to mind with this image.