How to Record Better IRacing Replays

Weā€™ve all been there. You had an incredible race and want to share it. You record your incredible pass or save on a single cam, watch it, and imagine what it could be. You look at the keyboard shortcuts and envision yourself as a live-event-director, smashing buttons to switch cameras at the perfect time while the recording runs. Perhaps you even tried to record like this, and realized doing that well would require a time investment on par with your sim racing addiction....

December 20, 2022 Ā· 4 min Ā· 664 words Ā· P.W.

Creating Stable Diffusion Videos with SD Deforum and Visions of Chaos Animation

Animating Stable Diffusion txt2img Outputs with Deforum and Vision of Chaos If the newness and wow factor of A.I. image generators and Stable Diffusion has worn off for you, deforum animations may be just what you need ā€“ While we may not yet be at the point we can scare audiences like the LumiĆØres did with their train video and are probably more in the Magic Lantern stage of development, I had a ton of fun generating the animations for this article....

September 25, 2022 Ā· 8 min Ā· 1630 words Ā· P.W.

Fine Tuning Stable Diffusion Images with Cross Attention Control

Image Refinement with Cross Attention Control If youā€™ve been keeping up with the latest Stable Diffusion forks, you may have seen prompt editing get merged to the master branch of the Automatic111 repo a few days ago. Thereā€™s not a lot of information on how to use this other than a comment in the commit. I believe the repo this originated from is Cross Attention Control. The README here describes more uses than the AUTOMATIC111 commit comment talks about....

September 17, 2022 Ā· 10 min Ā· 1921 words Ā· P.W.

The Easiest Way to Use Stable Diffusion Right Now

Easy Stable Diffusion + Textual Inversion! Wow ā€“ The pace at which the AI Image generation space has changed is something I have seldom seen in my life as a nerd. It reminds me of early Bitcoin tools or the Apple app store when it seemed like every day there was some new amazing app/tool/offering. I think SD is even more engaging for the community than these since itā€™s both open source and produces something tangible and fun (looking at blockchain ledgers takes some imagination to see why itā€™s ā€˜coolā€™)...

September 12, 2022 Ā· 4 min Ā· 796 words Ā· P.W.

A Developer Blog for Lazy Developers

A New Easier Way Iā€™ve had several blogs and websites over the years. Iā€™ll skip over my Microsoft FrontPage and Dreamweaver sites of my childhood, but since then I try every few years at making a blog. I moved through lots of different platforms in the first several years with a lot of overhead or that I didnā€™t understand how they were built well enough to build in features Iā€™d need or customize things....

September 2, 2022 Ā· 4 min Ā· 743 words Ā· P.W.