pixray VS aseprite

Not sure I ran https://github.com/pixray/pixray, which I think is based off of VQGAN. It would fluctuate from 50-100 -> 300-400 watts every few seconds and my desk lamp on the same power strip would flicker dim every time it hit. I game all the time at that wattage, so I assume it was spiking well over 400 when it would kick up.

I used code from https://github.com/pixray/pixray. It is not easy to use directly, and you need datacenter GPU to use pixray well. I ended up maintaining the texts at google sheets and running the model training at GCP Vertex AI infrastructure. I might open source the steps to do that later, but now the code is messy. Pixray does have an accessible web UI at https://replicate.com/pixray/text2image if you are interested to try it out. You can't control all parameters there though. The most recent famous AI art generator is https://openai.com/dall-e-2/, which has a wait list.

This is a just-for-fun post. Over on the discord, Mylie and I have been getting heavily into GAN/CLIP style AI image generation, applied to pixel art with the pixeldrawer module of pixray. It has proven to be extremely fun to input Ultica art as a style guide and then use text prompts to generate new images. We've developed a new method for making seamless tiling pixel art, mixing the AI stuff with our own! Check these out:

This is also hardware-hungry I'm afraid, this uses Pixray here: https://github.com/pixray/pixray

Thanks! I'm using Pixray: https://github.com/pixray/pixray

Can you expand? This looks like something generated by pixray (https://github.com/pixray/pixray), is that what you tweaked? Looks really cool.

They are! And you will be able to generate an unlimited number of them in my game. It is based off this implementation. Hope that helps :)

View the Project on GitHub

Aseprite (Mi preferida)

Aseprite is free if you compile it yourself [0], and can still be used for commercial purposes if compiled this way [1]. But I recommend buying it anyway to support the project.

[0]: https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/

[1]: https://www.aseprite.org/faq/#can-i-sell-graphics-created-wi...

Nitpick: Aseprite is source-available, not open source by the Open Source Initiative's definition. From the Aseprite EULA [1]:

> (g) Source code.

> You may only compile and modify the source code of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT for your own personal purpose or to propose a contribution to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

The OSI's definition of open source [2] requires distribution of unmodified and modified copies (with the exception of lone, unmodified copies; I read somewhere that writing a hello world program is a workaround):

> 1. Free Redistribution

> The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

...

> 3. Derived Works

> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

"free software" is ambiguous to English speakers/writers, but "open source" is ambiguous in its own way.

[1] https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/main/EULA.txt

[2] https://opensource.org/osd

That's not because you didn't know about it that it is a "new trend"

https://github.com/Poussinou/FLOSS-Games-on-Steam

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38475471-Libre-Open-S...

It's nothing new, and also exist in the tooling side of things

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431730/Aseprite/ - https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

This is specifically targeted for Aseperite users, and also makes use of a great tool called TexturePacker by CodeAndWeb. Andreas from CodeAndWeb always helps me out when I email them, and the software itself is awesome, so I figured I'd give it a boost.

Are you on macOS? There is a known issue that we've just fixed and released a new version with the fix today as v1.3-rc7 (we're going to publish some release notes in the following days).