High-Level Project Summary
During the entirety of the two days given, our team has extensively researched and engineered a solution to the given problem - to look at the cosmos not only from a scientific standpoint, where everything is based on rules and maths but to shine a light on it from an artistic standpoint, where we give the reigns of creativity to an imperfect artificial intelligence. To realize such an idea in just a mere two days, we had to research the different kinds of AI image generation models and decided to use Stable Diffusion - an open-source project perfect for our needs.
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Detailed Project Description
Star Mould is a web gallery and an art generator that consists of various images made from outer space. It uses NASA’s picture databases and mixes them with an Artificial Intelligence, Stable Diffusion model. This web application lets users see various images made from outer space and give them text prompts. Stable diffusion model takes these pictures and text inputs and uses them with its “img2img” (Image to image) functions to generate art edited by artificial intelligence according to the prompts. One of such web applications benefits is its ability to show that science is continuing to grow and improve at a very vast and very fast pace. And so we hope that Star Mould will be able to become a part of this ever-growing and beautiful world's spectacle.
Tools used to achieve our goals: NASA’s image API’s, Stable Diffusion v1-4 model, C#, ASP.NET.
Space Agency Data
During the creation of the project, we used several publicly available NASA image repositories, where we picked the most fitting photos for our project. Such repositories include the NASA Curiosity and Opportunity Mars rover images from multiple available cameras, including panoramic views, Mars textures, and closer looks at the instruments currently on the surface of Mars. The aforementioned repositories include the NASA API Portal (https://api.nasa.gov/), NASA image galleries (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/index.html), as well as used publicly provided API’s for the purpose of collecting large amounts of data (https://images.nasa.gov/).
Hackathon Journey
The experience in itself was pretty amazing. Most of us came here to have a good time and learn a few new things and so a few things we did indeed learn. Some improved their programming knowledge and expertise, while others worked on their creative side, but all in all, we improved in some shape or form. We do not deny, there were some challenges that we faced along the way, such as not knowing how to program some aspects of the code, but in the end, we managed to solve the problems together. We would also like to thank the organizers for the opportunity to have such a great time here and the mentors for their help with our project.
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Tags
#app #art #StableDiffusion #web #images #creative