I tried out a new image-generation software today, and it’s called FLUX.
To test the image generation capabilities of FLUX, I typed in the following sentence:
“A white laser bean diffracting through a prism into three colors, which then diffract into three separate prisms that recombine the light back into white”
After I pressed ‘Enter’ on my keyboard, the ai image generator did about 20 seconds of computing, and the FLUX image generator generated this image as the result:
Although this image is not precisely what I was expecting my prompt to generate, the result was actually far more inspiring and novel, to me.
I see this image as representative of a planet and its population.
The spectra of light emanating from the planet symbolize the planet population’s focused energy, which propagates outward toward far-flung spacetime horizons.
Anyway, that was a fun image, and I spent way more time writing this blurb about it, than I spent ‘creating’ the image itself.
In order to compare the FLUX image-generator to the current industry-leader image generator, I copy-pasted my original text prompt into Midjourney.
It’s resulting images were all equally delightful and angular, and I’ll admit that they’re closer in adherence to my prompt‘s intention.
I think the resulting images are each uniquely balanced at the tip of a metaphorical pyramid whose three sides comprise ‘synthetic’, ‘scientific’, and “artistic”,
All of these images are free to use as you see fit, with no need to credit anyone… except, maybe, some day, Paramount? (That fourth rainbow image looks a bit like it has origins as a Star Trek movie poster)
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