Oh! Koogrr was interested in some of the last thumbnails, and was hoping for some "upscales" (higher res) versions. I've belatedly discovered that if you want an image to be "upscaleable" without getting mutated further with lots of "added detail," you need to include "--uplight" as a keyword in the original image creation. (Sadly, I can't do that AFTER the fact.)
So, anyway, what ended up happening was that in some cases the original pic might seem to have a tail, ears, cat-like nose, etc., but during the Upscale process, it would add new details that transformed that apparent tail into ... a fold of drapery? And those ears became ... glowing nonsense kanji symbols in the hair? And the nose would just become a misshapen thing, a new human-like mouth with lips might form out of what was previously the chin, and other mayhem.
It's quite perplexing to watch the work-in-progress while it's working on a picture. A few blobs go down. Then it seems to carve these blobs into shapes. And then it works further ... and what seems like an accidental detail to a blob might get shaped into something new. It seems very iterative, in many ways as if this were a work being passed around the room, with different artists working on it, even if they still get the same initial keywords. What seems one moment to be a rightly-proportioned nose at one stage gets mutated into a mouth at another, or vice versa, and sometimes I may end up with a face that has multiple noses, multiple mouths, lapel buttons that transform into extra eyes, and other horrors! It's interesting, and clearly it can lead to some interesting results, but I find it quite bizarre. Apparently there's no underlying "structure" to the art -- no grand plan of "this shall be the face, here are the eyes, here's the nose, pointing this way," etc. -- but rather "Oh, I'll make this into a nose," or, "Here, I'll put a plug outlet," and then the next artist sees the plug outlet, does a bit of pattern matching and says, "Oh, that's a FACE!" and turns it into such, even though this makes no sense in the greater context.
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So, anyway, what ended up happening was that in some cases the original pic might seem to have a tail, ears, cat-like nose, etc., but during the Upscale process, it would add new details that transformed that apparent tail into ... a fold of drapery? And those ears became ... glowing nonsense kanji symbols in the hair? And the nose would just become a misshapen thing, a new human-like mouth with lips might form out of what was previously the chin, and other mayhem.
It's quite perplexing to watch the work-in-progress while it's working on a picture. A few blobs go down. Then it seems to carve these blobs into shapes. And then it works further ... and what seems like an accidental detail to a blob might get shaped into something new. It seems very iterative, in many ways as if this were a work being passed around the room, with different artists working on it, even if they still get the same initial keywords. What seems one moment to be a rightly-proportioned nose at one stage gets mutated into a mouth at another, or vice versa, and sometimes I may end up with a face that has multiple noses, multiple mouths, lapel buttons that transform into extra eyes, and other horrors! It's interesting, and clearly it can lead to some interesting results, but I find it quite bizarre. Apparently there's no underlying "structure" to the art -- no grand plan of "this shall be the face, here are the eyes, here's the nose, pointing this way," etc. -- but rather "Oh, I'll make this into a nose," or, "Here, I'll put a plug outlet," and then the next artist sees the plug outlet, does a bit of pattern matching and says, "Oh, that's a FACE!" and turns it into such, even though this makes no sense in the greater context.