Oh, the many ways she eats!

Back when we had published our very first devlog in 🌹 The Study of Aesthetics, we received a lot of positive reader response on our style research.

And also, a surprising number of responses to the tune of, “Yea, that’s great, but WOW how do we get this picture of hatsune miku?!”

Now you can! You can make it as weird, as cute, as beautiful, as horrible, as elegant, as destructive, as healing as your heart’s desire.

Follow these simple steps to mix your own personalized style cocktail 🍸

Important: personalized styles will not apply the same way to every prompt, so you must start with the prompt you wish to see.

A larger number will cost more hours and take longer to run. In exchange, you’ll be able to see more pictures to tune over.

Personally, I recommend using the smaller quiz to find the general direction that you are going for first, and then opening up the larger quiz to make some finer adjustments.

Use the selector to pick either the left, right or middle. This is what gets added to your style.

Selecting the middle means neither the left or right choice will get added into your mix.

You don’t have to pick a lot of pictures to make a good style! Just like a good cocktail, there’s a great elegance in simplicity.

The advantage of picking a few pictures

Picking a smaller amount of pictures will result in a more unique cocktail. This means that the style will work over a smaller set of subject matter, but will probably be more distinct

The advantage of picking many pictures

Selecting many pictures will create a more robust cocktail. This means that the style will work over a larger set of subject matter, but will probably be less distinct.

You’ll see a code at the bottom of the page. You should input this as a --style flag to apply it.

For example:

/imagine hatsune miku eating a burger --style 56iUh9md8fe

Be sure to include --niji 5 at the end of your prompt, or else you’ll be getting a different style. nj and mj have their own style tuners (Wow! 256 combined knobs for you to play with! we’re such a value product!), so make very sure you are using the style you mean to use!

I often joke about how hard it is to make bad pictures, but that’s a real research problem. Have you ever felt that all new games are the same, or all pop music sounds similar, or all redditors call dogs “floofers”?

That’s the power of community: It helps humans reach the local maximum quickly. Whether it’s words, pictures, sounds, or games, we quickly converge on what is memetic (viral, appealing, direct) when given the opportunity to hear each other.

But of course, what is simply self-propagating isn’t what you always want. Speaking as grammarians of style, there’s a certain charm to garbled messages that make you pause and scratch your head a bit. That’s why blk cat is popular

In life, there is great significance in imperfection, and as tool-makers, we seek to give you the power to express all that you experience. We provide the instrument: you are the virtuoso. Tune it as you wish, and play your masterpiece.

As always, thank you for your support on this journey.

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