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An Ethereum Moon and a Bitcoin Planet

Bernard
3 min readDec 15, 2021

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Allow me to begin by disclosing that the above looks nothing like I intended it to.

Using the prompt “the New York City skyline with cryptocurrency moon and stars |unreal engine” on Max Woolf’s VQGAN+CLIP notebook (that I find easiest to use and actually works for me), the following image was generated after 1,300 iterations that took ninety-three minutes.

The one image next to the blue building resembles cryptocurrency.

Also, I have wanted to generate larger images than the typical 640X480 pixel ratio that most of my generative art is. I do like the look of a 4:3 ratio but would prefer to go to 1,000X750 or thereabouts. Because of the old Dell that I use and the computing power being fairly low, I am not able to. Also, I do not pay for the enhanced memory and computing power through Google, so I am limited to however much I am allocated by the Gods of Google on any given day since these Colab notebooks are hosted by it.

That said, I upped the size a tad to 720X540, so the above image is 26.5% larger than my usual ones and, thus, perhaps slightly more attractive to prospective purchasers.

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Bernard
Bernard

Written by Bernard

A married father of two adult children and a Morkie. Long-time economic developer, former P.O., avid reader, thinker, investor, and walker.

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