4 ms·

Author here: I wanted to print a stable diffusion design on a t-shirt as a birthday gift, but needed to solve technical challenges to do that (quality, upscali

Author here: I wanted to print a stable diffusion design on a t-shirt as a birthday gift, but needed to solve technical challenges to do that (quality, upscaling etc). Then I thought it'd be fun to provide this as a service for others. You simply enter your design wish as a text and via stable diffusion a design is generated for you and you can see how it looks on a t-shirt. Ask me any questions!

fiat_fandango 4y ago
Hey, would you be open to an interview? I've been moonlighting an generative AI channel - I've also been playing around with some schemes using stable diffusion in similar ways ;)
- mpaepper 4y ago
  I might. Send me a private message on Twitter: Twitter.com/mpaepper Thanks!
Insanity 4y ago
How are you handling the printing / logistics aspect? Those are a black box to me. :)
- martin_a 4y ago
  There are whitelabel producers doing this for you. Have a look at Spreadshirt, shirtee or Picanova for a start.
- mpaepper 4y ago
  It's called dropshipping. I have a provider who gets the GAN upsampled image and the order info. They print and send it to the customer.
hirundo 4y ago
My standard test prompt has become "John Wayne as Captain America". Your images were returned > 10x faster than on other stable diffusion generators and generated many more images. But they were of lower quality than I've seen before. Hopefully you can find a way to give visitors more compute, but I can understand how that could get expensive.
- mpaepper 4y ago
  That's interesting, thanks! I actually generate one image per query and use the lexica API to sample others that are similar / related
davnn 4y ago
I was interested in doing the same, but the economics don‘t make sense yet imho if you would really perform queries to the models. Do you just text-match similar queries on lexica.art? Edit: NVM just saw that they provide an API…
- mpaepper 4y ago
  I do both, I generate one image on demand and query others from lexica :)
  - davnn 4y ago
    I see, nice! It would be great if you could add the prompt to the shirt, I think that would be a great conversation starter ;)
    - mpaepper 4y ago
      Interesting idea, might consider to have it as an option. Thanks!
not2b 4y ago
How are you planning to deal with the trademark issue? If your customers ask you to make them a shirt based on a cartoon character owned by a company with an aggressive legal department, you might face trouble.
- mpaepper 4y ago
  How would they know that a customer asked?
  - not2b 4y ago
    Because the trademark is right there in the prompt? Like "Mickey Mouse on the moon" or some such?

fiat_fandango 4y ago

Hey, would you be open to an interview? I've been moonlighting an generative AI channel - I've also been playing around with some schemes using stable diffusion in similar ways ;)

mpaepper 4y ago
I might. Send me a private message on Twitter: Twitter.com/mpaepper Thanks!

Insanity 4y ago

How are you handling the printing / logistics aspect? Those are a black box to me. :)

martin_a 4y ago
There are whitelabel producers doing this for you. Have a look at Spreadshirt, shirtee or Picanova for a start.
mpaepper 4y ago
It's called dropshipping. I have a provider who gets the GAN upsampled image and the order info. They print and send it to the customer.

hirundo 4y ago

My standard test prompt has become "John Wayne as Captain America". Your images were returned > 10x faster than on other stable diffusion generators and generated many more images. But they were of lower quality than I've seen before. Hopefully you can find a way to give visitors more compute, but I can understand how that could get expensive.

mpaepper 4y ago
That's interesting, thanks! I actually generate one image per query and use the lexica API to sample others that are similar / related

davnn 4y ago

I was interested in doing the same, but the economics don‘t make sense yet imho if you would really perform queries to the models. Do you just text-match similar queries on lexica.art? Edit: NVM just saw that they provide an API…

mpaepper 4y ago
I do both, I generate one image on demand and query others from lexica :)
- davnn 4y ago
  I see, nice! It would be great if you could add the prompt to the shirt, I think that would be a great conversation starter ;)
  - mpaepper 4y ago
    Interesting idea, might consider to have it as an option. Thanks!

not2b 4y ago

How are you planning to deal with the trademark issue? If your customers ask you to make them a shirt based on a cartoon character owned by a company with an aggressive legal department, you might face trouble.

mpaepper 4y ago
How would they know that a customer asked?
- not2b 4y ago
  Because the trademark is right there in the prompt? Like "Mickey Mouse on the moon" or some such?