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experimental generative contact sheet practice

Contact sheets are a common practice in analog photography to find the proper exposure values for image production. Working with …

Contact sheets are a common practice in analog photography to find the proper exposure values for image production. Working with generative diffusion models comes with a pretty similar issue – we often can’t predict how a model behaves or what it produces from a given prompt or parametic setup. Therefore the contact sheet approach is a proper method to get an impression of the visual spectrum of the model. Older models like Stable Diffusion have a much wider range of visual diversity than the newer Flux Models when applying different samplers or schedulers.

The following experimental contact sheets share the same prompt and use INTENTIONAL wrong samplers, schedulers, very low cfg values, and low step rate to provoke built in artefacts, that are normally invisible for the viewers eye. This practice can be used to create offset maps for more detailed, upscaled results. This can be archieved by combining image generators with one another like. See article: https://turboflip.de/challenge-the-default/

Stable Diffusion 1.5 – contact sheet

text2image guidance

contact sheet | t2i | Stable Diffusion 1.5

image2image guidance

contact sheet | i2i | Stable Diffusion 1.5

Z-Image / Flux pipeline – contact sheet

contact sheet | t2i | Z-Image
contact sheet | i2i | Z-Image