The goal of this project was to create visuals for a solarpunk future using modern image AI generation, upscaling and style transfer models. These models are publicly available through the links as shown in “Workflow”
Table of Contents
The Gallery
Solarpunk lively market street with trees at street level with a child on a bike and a crowd of people
Tropical Solarpunk lively market street with trees at street level with a child on a bike and a crowd of people with a beach
Tropical Solarpunk lively market street with trees at street level with a child on a bike and a crowd of people
Tropical green city utopia with a beach walkable urban city centre crowd of people
Solarpunk lively market street with trees at street level with a child on a bike and a crowd of people
Tropical green city utopia with a beach walkable urban city centre crowd of people
Solarpunk lively market street with trees at street level with a child on a bike
Green public space square with green roofs solarpunk and a lively market
Green public space square with green roofs solarpunk and a lively market with calisthenics
Woman watering tomato plants inside a rooftop food garden in utrecht city center solarpunk future urban environment
Food forest in the city center urban green blue infrastructure with a woman watering the garden
Food forest in the city center urban green blue infrastructure
Food forest in the city center urban green blue infrastructure
Food forest in the city center car free bike lanes
Food forest permaculture walkable city square with a fountain and a child playing in the fountain solarpunk
A dad showing his daughter a beautiful walkable solarpunk city center with a river, food forests and a bustling market street
A mom showing her sons a beautiful walkable green city center with fresh vegetables growing in the food forests
A dad showing his daughter a beautiful walkable solarpunk city center with a river, food forests and a bustling market street A mom showing her sons a beautiful walkable green city center with fresh vegetables growing in the food forests Food forest permaculture walkable city square and a child playing solarpunk Food forest in the city center car free bike lanes Food forest in the city center urban green blue infrastructure Food forest in the city center urban green blue infrastructure with a woman watering the garden
Tropical solarpunk city with a beach walkable urban city centre
Tropical solarpunk city with a beach sunset
Tropical solarpunk city with a beach walkable urban city centre crowd of people
Tropical green city utopia with a beach walkable urban city centre crowd of people
Solar powered tropical solarpunk city center with a crowd of people doing sports at a calistenics park
Composition
Composition 2
Workflow
Prompt generation using GPT-J
Don’t have inspiration for what to add to the prompt in Dall-E Mini / Craiyon? Just use GPT-J.
Text to Image generation using Dall-E Mini / Craiyon
The approach here is to start with Dall-E Mini / Craiyon (they had to change their name per OpenAI’s request).
AI Upscaling / Upsampling
Then, the image is upsampled using one of the following tools (try which one works best). Potentially, Adobe Photoshops Neural filters could be used.
Adding higher frequency details using VQGAN+CLIP
Online free style transfer tools didn’t really work, so I opted to use Nightcafe.
This is the source artwork that is used for the style transfer.
I picked iteration 20 / iteration 30. Then the style transfer, with export quality “Medium Res”.
End result
