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Interesting UI, and great that's it's open-sourced! M1 Mac owners should also check out the iPad version of Draw Things, which has a large number of features a

• exsf0859 4y ago
  In my opinion Draw Things is the best stable diffusion app currently available for macOS/iOS. It's free, it is available in the App Store, it manages downloading models and weights, it supports a wide selection of popular models as well as custom weights, and it supports inpainting, text2image, and image2image. It has some oddities: it uses a sqlite database to store generated images rather than the more traditional files, and the UI is idiosyncratic. You have to follow the author's twitter feed to learn how to use the advanced features.
  • tcmb 4y ago
    Appears to be https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp https://twitter.com/drawthingsapp
  • outcoldman 4y ago
    Storing images in the database is not a bad thing https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
    • soulofmischief 4y ago
      Your link suggests this is the case for small images, thumbnails, not large images such as that typically produced by SD
      • outcoldman 4y ago
        That article also points to the paper https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/to-blob-or-not-to-blob-large-object-storage-in-a-database-or-a-filesystem/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/to-blob..., the images produced by stable diffusion are about 500-600Kb in size. At this point it could be a similar performance or could be a little better or a little worse. I am not saying that it is better to store files in SQLite, just saying that nothing wrong with it, if those files are below 1Mb.
        • wolrah 4y ago
          > I am not saying that it is better to store files in SQLite, just saying that nothing wrong with it, if those files are below 1Mb. There is one very obvious thing wrong with it, the fact that those resulting images aren't files that are easily accessible to other things. Unless storing in SQLite actually offers a real advantage in some other way, it's a disadvantage when the output is something you'll want to use with other tools.
      • gizmo 4y ago
        SQLite has also measured the performance impact for storing larger BLOBs: https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html https://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html The verdict: storing blobs in the database is totally fine. Stable diffusion is totally compute bound, the overhead of storing a 1mb file in a sqlite db is miniscule.
    • throwntoday 4y ago
      Will storing thumbnails in a postgres database offer performance improvements as well?
  • ewalk153 4y ago
    It’s likely a function of building for iOS first and then porting to MacOS.
• kmlx 4y ago
  be advised that it’s quite slow on an ipad if it doesn’t have an m1. it was faster on my iphone 14pro than on my ipad mini :|
  • dagmx 4y ago
    The iPad Mini is quite old in terms of the SoC it shipped with. Any recent iPad or iPhone has much better silicon , even if it’s not an M1.
    • kmlx 4y ago
      mine has the A15 which was launched last year. and it still feels slow :(
      • dagmx 4y ago
        Ah I forgot about the refresh for the 6th gen. The difference in speed with your phone might be down to RAM? 6GB vs 4GB? I forget if the latest mini is LPDDR4 or 5 but it might be 5 Otherwise the A16 and the A15 aren’t that different, though the A16 does have a newer ANE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A16?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A16?wprov=sfti1 ).
• lelandfe 4y ago
  It is unfortunate that the UI is not even attempting to be platform native, though.
  • Tao3300 4y ago
    The box vs. the chocolate
    • lelandfe 4y ago
      I use iOS instead of Android because of the box. Apps that don’t look like the box art stick out like a sore thumb on iOS.
• nerder92 4y ago
  It crashed for me on my Macbook M1
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