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Dec. 22, 2021, 2 min read

pixray Image Generation

I've had some fun with pixray today, which can generate stylized (especially the pixel-art thingie here is cool, but there are different flavors) images from a textual description of something. That's nothing new in general, but the quality of output is really something, I think. It's fascinating to see what the algorithm ends up with, and the interface allows you to see several intermediate steps so there's a bit of evolution to be seen here. Here are some example outputs and the text that generated them (using the same text will likely yield different results though, as the image generation is not idempotent):

a whale falling from the sky

a whale falling from the sky


two hamsters fighting to death

two hamsters fighting to death


the code will eat all

the code will eat all


run before the troll catches us

run before the troll catches us


santa slaughtered everyone

santa slaughtered everyone


a brain in a box covered in stardust

a brain in a box covered in stardust


rainbows and sunshine and pancakes

rainbows and sunshine and pancakes


hunt showdown

hunt showdown