So apparently my asterix won last challenge and now i gotta make one of my own. Damn
Formatting is shamelessly stolen from @Anahkiasen@lemmy.blahaj.zone, thank you for your hard work :)
Theme
This week’s theme is “Sustainable Ecumenopolis”. I wanted to have something original, that i never seen before. Also ecological Trantor would be based AF.
Rules
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Follow the community’s rules above all else
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One comment and image per user
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Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
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Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)
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At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid
Prize Points Most upvoted +3 points Second most upvoted +1 point Theme is clear +1 point OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point Most original +1 point Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point Prompt and workflow included +1 point -
Posts that are ex aequo will both get the points
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Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!
Past entries
- Dieselpunk
- Goosebump Book
- Deep Space Wonders
- Fairy Tales
- A New Sport
- Monsters are Back to School
- War and Peace
- Distant lands
- Unreal Cartoons
Here’s my generation info :
A planet city with buildings entirely made of tree buildings,green high rise, very high density
Negative prompt: concrete,BadDream, bulidng blocks,forest
Steps: 20, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Heun Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 210053647, Size: 512x512, Model hash: 3c8530cb22, Model: cyberrealistic_v33, VAE hash: c6a580b13a, VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.ckpt, RNG: CPU, TI hashes: "BadDream: 758aac443515"
Good luck and have fun !
Prompt:illustration, arcology made from trees, megastructure, metropolis in the background, colorful, brutalist architecture --ar 2:5
Still a bit in my green brutalism phase. I wanted to make a vertical design, something that really stands out. Also I really like the colors :)
I had a lot of fun making these and wanted to share the runner-ups as well. These are a couple of extras that are not for competing in this challenge. I’ll put them behind spoilers so I won’t pollute the thread too much.
Another treehouse
Prompt:illustration, arcology made from trees, megastructures, colorful, brutalist architecture --ar 2:5
A solar punk style tower
Prompt:Cutaway view, solar punk arcology, illustration
A city hidden in a canyon
Prompt:Cutaway view, underground arcology, stream --ar 4:3
A gigantic tree city
Prompt:jacobean architecture, plant-based metropolis, megastructure, clouds, grown, futuristic --ar 4:3
I love the crazy ratio !
Thank you!
Playing with extreme ratios can produce some really unique pieces. It’s a pretty big guide for the AI to determine the composition.
Most upvoted +3 Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 5 points I declare you the winner ! The people have spoken. ! Now you gotta make the new community challenge :D
Yay! I had fun, thanks for this challenge.
The new challenge is already up, hope everyone will enjoy it.
Bing/dalle3, prompt was “megacity of hobbit high-rise structures, rooftop gardens, organic, waterways, deep depth of field, photo.”
Definitely not what I was going for but really cool.
Edit: not another submission, just sharing.
This is closer to what I intended but couldn’t get quite the right image.
Prompt: “a metropolis made of earth shelters, greenery, rooftop gardens, photo.”
Sorry mate, only one comment allowed
Oh yeah I don’t mean the second as a submission, just wanted to share. Should I remove it?
Nah I’ll just use the first one
Thanks, friend. Sorry for the confusion.
Wow this is really cool!
Second most upvoted +1 Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 3 points Very original and nice looking. Second most upvoted.
Here’s my submission:
The prompt was
nature filled city with biomimicry architecture in a 512k mac game
Generated with bing image creator.
Oh dear. Your comment is missing a
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in front of the link. That’s why it isn’t showing.
![](https://files.catbox.moe/26s38g.jpeg)
should fix it.actual image
Thanks dude. For some reason the image was showing up on the app I use so I didn’t notice.
You’re welcome, happy to help
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Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 2 points What a weird tint. Not my cup of tea, but people have liked it, you were 1 upvote away for tiying second place. Congrats !
My first prompt was “floating cities with agriculture”
“floating cities” => it was too dystopian. Very artificial squared islands with tons of buildings. So I reversed it to “towns on floating islands” to enhance natural looking islands.
Without “palms” and “solar pannels” => it was like floating getthos. I added “palms” and “solar pannels” to make it paradisiac and futuristic.
Resulting prompt (Dall-e3) : “sea covered with towns on floating islands, palms, solar pannels, agriculture”Not competing with this unexpected fun result : “troglodyte houses everywhere on Earth, fields on top”
Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 2 points Waterworld ecumenopolis, nice.
Prompt:
Plant-based architecture, metropolis rising from an enchanted forest, clouds, grown, futuristic
Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 2 points Thank you for your participation.
I had to scale the gif down with an online Tool which put me their logo in the bottom right corner.
Its ok If the use of tools outside of an classic AI Generator violates the rules of the contest and disqualifies me. I still had much fun trying it out!
The idea was to “fly” from outer space deeper and deeper into an Ecumenopolis (had to google thatone) until you “arrive” at the final destination deep into the Ecumenopolis, a grass field.
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AI Tool: Comfyui
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Model: dreamshaper_5BakedVAE
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Sampler: euler
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Scheduler: normal
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CFG: 7.0
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Samples: 40
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Positive Prompt: Its complicated… See below
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Negative Prompts: bad anatomy, bad proportions, blurry, cloned face, deformed, frame, border, black rectangle, disfigured, duplicate, extra arms, extra fingers, extra limbs, extra legs, fused fingers, gross proportions, long neck, malformed limbs, missing arms, missing legs, mutated hands, mutation, mutilated, morbid, out of frame, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, too many fingers, ugly, ugly, duplicate, morbid, mutilated, out of frame, extra fingers, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, deformed, ugly, blurry, bad anatomy, bad proportions, extra limbs, cloned face, disfigured, out of frame, ugly, extra limbs, bad anatomy, gross proportions, malformed limbs, missing arms, missing legs, extra arms, extra legs, mutated hands, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck
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Negative Embeddings: FastNegativeV2, BAdDream
The Workflow is also embedded in this image:
The Workflow uses custom nodes which have to be installed to work
This is quite an interesting Workflow:
- Base Image
I´ve created a Base Image with following Prompt:
documentary photography photo of closeup of a single grass blade, futuristic, grenn , ecological, hippie city background, natural lighting, from below/low angle, ARRI ALEXA 65, Kodak Vision3 IMAX
- Send the created image back into the workflow
Via the image Sender and image receiver node of the Comfyui custom Module “Impact pack” you are able to send the generated image back into the workflow. With these nodes you are able to do a Generation loop which makes it possible to generate something like an animation by the creative use of inpainting.
- Scale the genrated image down an pad it for outpainting
The previously generated image isscaled down to 50%. then we pad the image to get it back to its original size for the outpainting. combined with an outpainting controlnet you get a new image which “zooms” a bit out:
- Now starts the Fun
You have in Comfyui an optional Setting where you can set the Image generation to an endless loop. It generates image after image until you say stop. As we have generated a feedback loop in our workflow we get the nice zoom effect for every following image.
And here is the point from above with the prompt “It´s complicated”
You can now modify the promp while the generation process is running and alter slowly the prompt. If you are a fast typer you can do this while the process is running or you pause, modify the prompt and start the process again.
My goal was to have a “Zoom in from Space” into the Ecumenopolis.
As the process works in the way that you zoom out from the first image, you have to think in “reverse” and modify the prompt gradually during the generation process so that you come frome the detail view of grass to the outside view of the Ecumenopolis from Space.
Surprisingly you only need a few iterations to get a nice effect:
- Make a Video
The last step is to Generate the Animation with the Zoom Video Composer . This will generate you a .mp4 out of your single images. You also have many parameters to play with and to get different effects.
Wow that’s really trippy. Making me dizzy 😵
Thanks for sharing the detailed workflow. It’s honestly mind-boggling to me that it’s possible for one person to create this in their spare time. AI is such a powerful tool that can be utilized in so many different contexts, and we are still just scratching the surface of what is possible.
Most original +1 Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 3 points An awesome amount of work. Would give you one more points for sheer fucking will
Looks like your URL is giving a 404 error. Maybe something is missing?
edit: URL removed
yeah, its broken. I struggle a bit to upload a gif here. I put the mp4 on a video sharing platform and made a new link.
I see it now. That’s a cool video and as far as I’m concerned it’s well within the rules of the challenge.
The shift in orientation was a bit disorientating (vertical buildings become horizontal ones, that kind of thing) but it’s really interesting.
And I find your workflow very impressive, puts my prompt guessing to shame :)
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Solar-punk architecture, cocoon buildings, cityscape, city, rooftop view, greenery, glass, pedestrian, flower, urban, pods, resort, curves, unique, original, organic, perfect composition, concept art, sidelighting, depth of field, sharp focus, hard light, split shadow, vivid, brilliant, cinematic, dramatic, caustics, realistic, photorealistic, photo (medium) Negative prompt: solar panels, 3d, render, fake, illustration, painting, cartoon, drawing, dark, noir, desaturated, blurry, illustration, fake, plastic, toy, bland, smudge, cartoon, painting, drawing, fat, ugly, forehead mark, 3d, render, smooth, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, text, error, missing fingers, extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry, artist name Steps: 30, Sampler: DPM++ 2M SDE Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1493947496, Size: 1280x768, Model hash: 70229e1d56, Model: juggernautXL_version5, Clip skip: 2, RNG: CPU, Version: v1.6.0
My favourite +1 Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 3 points I love it. Round buidings ftw !
Used the bing thing again (I bonged the bing out of laziness?)
Prompt was: “Large clean mega city glass tower covering all, built on the ruins of the past, landscape style photograph. Night time”
Took 13 attempts, adding and removing words.
Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 2 points Nice.
Workflow/Prompt
I asked chat gpt + dalle
the topic is “Sustainable Ecumenopolis”. Come up with a novel concept for this.
The make some award winning high-quality images about it
then I rejected the first batch of result and said
vertical farming and solar panels are stale and boring.
the images should be award winning high quality and atmospheric.
then it generated some images. The one I selected for the competition was this
Render: Atmospheric night plaza in Biosphere Nexus. Architectural structures inspired by biomimicry surround the area. Trees with bioluminescent leaves light up the ambiance, with diverse citizens enjoying the scene.
If I win, the next topic will be “Torment Nexus”
Nice, the trees in the background make me think of the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 2 points Would be the most original one if not for Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 's video ! Love it a whole lot.
So it made that city from starfield, neat.
DALL-E 3:
Hyper-realistic depiction of a central hub in the elevated redwood city. The hub is a multi-level platform suspended among the trees, hosting gardens, recreational areas, and marketplaces. Staircases and elevators connect different levels, all designed with eco-friendly materials. The scene emphasizes the city's commitment to preserving the natural habitat while providing modern amenities for its residents.
Last entry +1 Clear Theme +1 Workflow +1 Total 3 points Thanks for sharing !