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Vitruvian Man

by GymDreams
After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Explorations of AI generative works based on the works of Leonardo Da Vinci.
Works based on the artworks of others

The Vitruvian Man is a well-known drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, depicting a male figure in two superimposed positions with arms and legs spread. It symbolizes the ideal proportions of the human body and the relationship between art and science.

Vitruvian Man. Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1490. Pen, brown ink and watercolor over metalpoint on paper. Image from Wikipedia.
Vitruvian Man. Leonardo da Vinci. c. 1490. Pen, brown ink and watercolor over metalpoint on paper. Image from Wikipedia.

I have mentioned previously that Leonardo da Vinci holds a special place in my heart. He has always been a strong influence in my life because his works often combine the fields of art and science — a process and practice that I employ in my own works for the past 30 years.

To be honest, I have always struggled to fully articulate or explain my cross-disciplinary approach to others. It has proven to be more challenging than trying to reason with individuals who hold homophobic beliefs.

Without deviating onto an unrelated tangent, I felt compelled to create AI generative works inspired by the profound impact the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci has had on me. That’s what these works represent—a homage to the iconic masterpiece.

This is the first of many to come. I have additionally created some that are much “adherent” to the original, but will likely only post those on my site because of obvious reasons.

Tech

These were done with the Line Art control net. Specifically, I took the image of the Vitruvian Man found on Wikpedia, and converted it into black and white inside Photoshop. I then tweaked the Curves to make the lines more pronounced. Then I wrote my text prompts inside txt2img to get the exact render I need. The more true-to-form subseries (which shall be posted later in the future) has prompts that differ from these series of run in running shorts.

I chose Airfuck’s Brute Mix — Airfuck’s latest model — for its painterly photographic quality.

These were rendered with Euler a, mostly because the DPM++ samplers appeared to have issues in the Automatic1111’s 1.6.x releases, which I later discovered other people had experienced as well. The Euler a sampler had improved in the 1.6.x release, so I decided to use it for its speed and effectiveness when combined with ABM, producing the photorealistic painterly effect I love.

Stable Diffusion txt2img with Line Art control net.

  • Airfuck’s Brute Mix v1.0
  • Euler a, 20 steps, 512x512
  • vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned
  • Denoising 0.5, Clip skip 2
  • Line Art control net: Weight 1, Start 0.3, End 1, Res 1024, Balanced mode
  • Hires: 10 steps, 2x, 1024x1024, 8x_NMKD-Superscale_150000_G
  • Automatic1111 v1.6.0
  • Post Upscale: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x
  • Color Correction: Adobe Lightroom

Images

Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.

Additional Images

Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.

Funny Errors

Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.
Vitruvian Man. After the Vitruvian Man c.1490 by Leonardo da Vinci. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Airfuck’s Brute Mix, and Line Art Control Net.

Full Technical Parameters

  • Steps: 20
  • Sampler: Euler a
  • CFG scale: 4
  • Face restoration: CodeFormer
  • Size: 512x512
  • Model hash: 8ff8347bb0
  • Model: airfucksBruteMix_v10
  • VAE hash: 235745af8d
  • VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned.vae.ckpt
  • Denoising strength: 0.5
  • Clip skip: 2
  • ControlNet 0:
    • Module: invert (from white bg & black line)
    • Model: control_v11p_sd15_lineart (43d4be0d)
    • Weight: 1
    • Resize Mode: Crop and Resize
    • Low Vram: False
    • Processor Res: 1024
    • Guidance Start: 0.3
    • Guidance End: 1
    • Pixel Perfect: False
    • Control Mode: Balanced
  • Hires upscale: 2
  • Hires steps: 10
  • Hires upscaler: 8x_NMKD-Superscale_150000_G
  • Lora hashes:
    • bulgerk-dickprint: b1934ecdac9a
    • epi_noiseoffset2: d1131f7207d6
    • epiCRealismHelper: c5e24d9bc4b5
  • TI hashes:
    • Asian-Less-Neg: 22d2f003e76f
    • NegfeetV2: df90b1ff666d
  • face_editor_enabled: True
  • face_editor_face_margin: 1.6
  • face_editor_confidence: 0.97
  • face_editor_strength1: 0.3
  • face_editor_strength2: 0
  • face_editor_max_face_count: 20
  • face_editor_mask_size: 0
  • face_editor_mask_blur: 12
  • face_editor_prompt_for_face: handsome face
  • face_editor_apply_inside_mask_only: True
  • face_editor_apply_scripts_to_faces: False
  • face_editor_face_size: 512
  • face_editor_use_minimal_area: False
  • face_editor_ignore_larger_faces: True
  • face_editor_affected_areas: Face
  • face_editor_upscaler: None
  • face_editor_tilt_adjustment_threshold: 40
  • Version: v1.6.0
  • Post Upscale: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x
  • Color correction: Adobe Lightroom
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