Ask yourself, if you were shut in a room for twenty-four hours with some town planners and programmers, and charged with building an AI-powered solution for the UK planning system, what would you do? If you were absurdly pedantic, you might start by asking, "What do...
This article is adapted from my 2024 Q3 quarterly GenAI for Placemaking newsletter, which went out to subscribers at the start of October, and which you are able to sign up for below. Doesn’t it strike you that art and visualisation are rather similar? Certainly, if...
This article is adapted from my 2024 Q3 quarterly GenAI for Placemaking newsletter, which went out to subscribers at the start of October, and which you are able to sign up for below. I was so sure we’d be seeing the first signs of the genAI cool-off by now, and that...
This article is adapted from my 2024 Q2 quarterly GenAI for Design newsletter, which went out to subscribers at the start of July, and which you are able to sign up for below. AI will... “AI will...” is not a good way to start any sentence predicting the future of AI....
Stable Diffusion control nets are a great way of putting flesh on the bones at design concept stage, creating rapid iterations and introducing features and finishes that can be built upon. Let me show you how.Here, I've made a sketch in my sketchbook, using a fine...
Today: How prompt terms affect other things too Remix Mode Varying Region Varying Whole Image Image Prompt from Collage I want to combine several concepts together. I want a character who's an elderly lady, who's smartly attired in a business setting, and I also want...
Two useful features you need to be aware of when starting to use Midjourney are image prompting and the seed parameter. These can provide some more control and constrain the generator from starting afresh with a new image with each prompt, lending continuity between...
This article also appears on my Patreon blog, which you can find here. Everything I put on Patreon is free, although donations in support of my writing are always appreciated 🙂 American neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, and Canadian psychologist Paul Bloom,...
I'm not quite sure how this happened (not at all sure, actually), but I've managed to create a rather fascinating series of architecture/fashion hybrids. Take a look and then I'll guide you through the process... These slightly disturbing images are the result of...
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