AI assisted drawing with hardware acceleration.

January 23, 2022 4:01 AM

Turn primitive shapes into realistic landscapes. Watch a demo. Try the online app, or download the nVidia Canvas desktop app, though you will need a graphics card with RTX.
posted by adept256 (12 comments total)

looking forward to seeing pokey the penguin's arctic ms paint icescapes in full photorealism
posted by polytope subirb enby-of-piano-dice at 4:24 AM on January 23, 2022 [2 favorites]

I've tried in every browser and the layout is huge on the screen. Anyone else noticing that?
posted by emelenjr at 5:46 AM on January 23, 2022 [1 favorite]

I've tried in every browser and the layout is huge on the screen. Anyone else noticing that?

Yes. Try View > Zoom Out or similar in the menu bar. On the Mac, Cmd+minus key.

I must be doing something wrong, because no matter what I try, the output image just looks like someone threw up on a star field.
posted by jabah at 5:52 AM on January 23, 2022 [1 favorite]

Hey, at least it doesn't turn every drawing into a penis.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 6:28 AM on January 23, 2022 [1 favorite]

Looks just like that Bryce program from long ago.
posted by njohnson23 at 8:27 AM on January 23, 2022

Good to hear Peter Lorre again. It's been awhile.
posted by jcworth at 8:31 AM on January 23, 2022

...at least it doesn't turn every drawing into a penis.

No AI can replace me.
posted by Western Infidels at 9:51 AM on January 23, 2022 [3 favorites]

Sorry to dissapoint
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 10:41 AM on January 23, 2022

Aw man, Windows only. This is something my M1 iMac could handle quite well.
posted by zardoz at 12:46 PM on January 23, 2022

Surely worth a look.
posted by LeatherCraft.Germany at 12:38 AM on January 24, 2022

Cool, not AI though.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:40 AM on January 24, 2022

I'm starting to get the hang of it. The browser interface is not intuitive, even after watching the demo. (I'm imagining Peter Lorre in Beat the Devil saying: "AI. What is AI? The Russians use it for propaganda. The Chinese use it to oppress. The Americans use it to make porn. You know what I say? I say AI is a crock.") You really have to follow certain specific paths of action to get any kind of result. "Painting" landscapes works amazingly well. The segmentation and the sketch function are harder to understand. (What exactly does sketch do?) The text function doesn't work nearly as well as in the demo (I mean in terms of heuristics, not speed). Combining any of the functions seems to confuse things and make things not work.
posted by jabah at 7:11 AM on January 24, 2022