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The last few weeks of news have been dominated by Stable Diffusion. And not without reason, because the technology will certainly more or less change entire industries in many respects in the future.

However, at the other end of the scale for computing power (…over here), people tend to think less about inference, unless they want to wait months for a visual result. And we don't even want to dream about training on a huge data set. On our side of the rainbow, the creation of pixel- and ANSI-Art is much more realistic, and the latter has been enriched by a new, exciting project in the past few days.

Hans Petter Jansson has added another star to the universe of ANSI generators. Take an image, have it processed by Chafa, and enjoy the result. In contrast to other converters Chafa uses an extended character set and thus achieves higher quality results.

Now combine Chafa with SD in a small pipeline and you have a fun evening entertainment at least until the end of September. 🖼