Thread by @pschwllr

1/ What makes this @ChemicalScience front cover so special is how it was made.

It is probably the first-ever journal cover designed using a VQGAN + CLIP and the unreal engine trick!
#VQGAN #CLIP #GenerativeArt

More information in the thread ⬇️

https://twitter.com/ChemicalScience/status/1410518537899286532

2/ The AI model (VQGAN + CLIP) generated most of the image using “enzymatic chemical reactions. green chemistry. advanced unreal engine” as input.
It’s interesting that you can recognise the lab with the blackboards, the floor and the “reactions”.

3/ I’ve added an enzymatic reaction from our publication (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…) on top of the image.

Before (AI generated) | after (final cover)

4/ Adding “unreal engine” or “advanced unreal engine” to the text input prompt is important as it substantially increases the quality of the output image.

This trick was recently made popular by @arankomatsuzaki:

https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1399471244760649729?s=20

5/ I had tested it on a few chemistry related inputs. One of the inputs now made it on the cover of @ChemicalScience!

https://twitter.com/pschwllr/status/1400489494835572739?s=20

6/ There is an awesome notebook written by @RiversHaveWings that helped me generate the images.
colab.research.google.com/drive/1L8oL-vL…


Thank you very much, @RiversHaveWings!
Check out her profile, you will find lots of awesome images!

7/ More details on how to operate the VQGAN+CLIP model can be found here (@images_ai):
docs.google.com/document/d/1Lu…

The thread would continue here:

https://twitter.com/pschwllr/status/1410611796554092549?s=20