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The Camera of the Future Already Exists. It’s Called a Smartphone.

The camera of the future is already here.It s called a smartphone.But it is not the camera photographers actually want.Smartphones have already won the imaging race. They won through scale, billions [ ] The post The Camera of the Future Already Exists. It s Called a Smartphone. appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

The Story on how 10 Years Ago I Built Romania’s First VR App

Exactly ten years ago, I decided to make a virtual reality application. I did not know Unity. I did not know C#. I learned enough of both in approximately two [ ] The post The Story on how 10 Years Ago I Built Romania’s First VR App appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Me, the Puzzle — Reassembling a Fragmented Reflection

I created Me, the Puzzle from a deeply personal place. I live with bipolar disorder, and one of the ways I experience it is through a fragmented sense of identity. [ ] The post Me, the Puzzle — Reassembling a Fragmented Reflection appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

DYSTALGIA : Infinite, context-aware generative zoom

Infinite, context-aware generative zoom DYSTALGIA lets you travel infinitely deeper into an image while preserving the meaning of the original scene. Traditional upscalers enlarge existing pixels. DYSTALGIA does something fundamentally [ ] The post DYSTALGIA : Infinite, context-aware generative zoom appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Taxa AI pe Aliniere

Ani la rând am văzut aceeași naivitate în discursul public: impresia că poți pune „căluș” unui AI într-o zonă – să zicem, să nu genereze porn sau chestii sensibile – [ ] The post Taxa AI pe Aliniere appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Am descoperit o specie noua de conspirationist

Am descoperit o specie noua de conspirationist, care in mod paradoxal este teoretic fix opusul lui. Doar ca de fapt e simetric, nu opus: anti-conspirationistul. Anticonspirationistul vede conspirationism peste tot, [ ] The post Am descoperit o specie noua de conspirationist appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Uite de ce suntem o specie de cacat si nu ne vom schimba niciodata

Ani la rand ne-am spus o poveste foarte clara. Cand un AI va putea purta o conversatie imposibil de distins de cea a unui om, atunci vom fi ajuns la [ ] The post Uite de ce suntem o specie de cacat si nu ne vom schimba niciodata appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

The Latent Space Technique Adobe (and Everyone Else) Will Steal Next (Infinite Crop/Zoom using semantic context awareness).

No, this is not another infinite zoom workflow. We ve had infinite zooms, recursive img2img, outpainting and endless upscaling for years. They all eventually hit the same wall: the deeper you [ ] The post The Latent Space Technique Adobe (and Everyone Else) Will Steal Next (Infinite Crop/Zoom using semantic context awareness). appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

From Infinite Scene Images to Infinite Comic Books (ComfyUI first comic book generator from a simple story with consistancy using no references, LORAs etc).

A few days ago I published an article about a workflow capable of generating an effectively infinite number of consistent scene images using nothing more than a text description. The [ ] The post From Infinite Scene Images to Infinite Comic Books (ComfyUI first comic book generator from a simple story with consistancy using no references, LORAs etc). appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

KREA 2 (and maybe others) infinite scene images with consistancy using description (Comfy UI workflow)

Krea 2 (and probably other image models): Infinite Character Consistency Using Descriptions + ComfyUI Ok, so long story short, I saw a few workflows that enabled Krea 2 inside ComfyUI [ ] The post KREA 2 (and maybe others) infinite scene images with consistancy using description (Comfy UI workflow) appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

What is God ?

Exploring the divine: What is God? The post What is God ? appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Ace Step 1.5 XL ComfyUI workflow for generating random tags, generate song and then give it a rating by using waveform analysis

The idea came to me after sorting trough a lot of Ace Step 1.5 XL outputs and trying to find best styles and tags for songs. Why not automate the [ ] The post Ace Step 1.5 XL ComfyUI workflow for generating random tags, generate song and then give it a rating by using waveform analysis appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

I hacked LTX2 to be used as a Multi Lingual TTS voice cloner

Took me a bit but I figured it out. The idea is to geneate a very low resolution (64 64) video with input audio and mask the audio latent space after [ ] The post I hacked LTX2 to be used as a Multi Lingual TTS voice cloner appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Snails !!!

Made in ComfyUI using only local models (and uncensored of course). workflow and usage is the one on this post, with reference actors that seem to work quite well or [ ] The post Snails !!! appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

LTX-2.3 Long Video For Low VRAM/RAM Workflow

LTX-2.3 is now out with better coherence both temporal and spatial. So I gave it a spin. With a hard sure-to-fail scenario. A very long continous action scene with actor [ ] The post LTX-2.3 Long Video For Low VRAM/RAM Workflow appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

WAN 2.2 + external actors > LTX-2 upscaler/refiner/actor reinforcement in ComfyUI

In my previous posts I talked about how you can use LTX-2 as an WAN upscaler/refiner and how to add external actors and elements references without img2vid (you need an [ ] The post WAN 2.2 + external actors > LTX-2 upscaler/refiner/actor reinforcement in ComfyUI appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

LTX-2: Adding outside actors and elements to the scene (not existing in the first image) IMG2VID workflow.

This for me was the biggest problem with LTX-2, the inability to add characters from outside the camera without training a lora. So I finally managed to get something working [ ] The post LTX-2: Adding outside actors and elements to the scene (not existing in the first image) IMG2VID workflow. appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Using LTX-2 as an upscaler (temporal and spatial) for WAN 2.2

I have had a lot of fun with LTX 2 but for a lot of usecases it is useless for me. for example this usecase where I could not get [ ] The post Using LTX-2 as an upscaler (temporal and spatial) for WAN 2.2 appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

AI VS My Real Photos

After I made my full photo archive available for free sume reddit users that I thank like NobodyButMeow created a Qwen Image Lora after my photos. What stroke me was [ ] The post AI VS My Real Photos appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .

Getting good results out of Chroma Radiance

A lot of people asked how they could get results like mine using chroma Radiance. In short you cannot get good results out of the box. You need a good [ ] The post Getting good results out of Chroma Radiance appeared first on Dystalgia - Aurel Manea Art .