I read a lot of these posts on stable diffusion, midjourney, etc., and I don’t want to fall into the classic “I don’t think this is ready yet” camp, but one thing an Architect will be able to do really well which these tools won’t is make a kitchen that is actually usable. I mean, this thing is basically a corrupted Pinterest of kitchen ideas with doors and drawers intersecting, beams that make no sense, and flooring that looks menacing. And until we have AGI I don’t think our program sophistication will be able to iron out these “uncanny valley” isms that seem built into every aI image generation tool.<p>Now I know that this tool is just a “starting point” for using as ideas, but I have seen way more fabulous (and sane) kitchen designs en mass on houzz, dezeen, basically any online blog. The technology is cool, but it seems limited. As in we can only get weird amalgams of human concepts. All this to say, I work with architects professionally, and I do not see this as something that will cause their field concern in the near to mid term. These programs cannot make drawings with structural suggestions, floor plans for the layout they produce, or anything else that a person pays an architect for. Just my two cents
As an (housing) architect this is simultaneously amazing and terrifying.<p>In some way, stable diffusion works like the architect mind that has seen more kitchens (in this case) than the average person and somehow (consciously or unconsciously) proposes a solution based on that. Our edge - for now - is knowing what is feasible/economical.
Once we can do "more like this", "less like that" in a way that doesn't require a 3 paragraph inscrutable word soup for prompts, I don't see how this doesn't revolutionalize most industries that need any type of quick prototyping of anything.<p>You could do this for any sort of web / mobile / whatever UI, designing houses, cars, any object really, fashion, etc. It's all going to be so much faster.
I've been playing with something similar and it's pretty fun.<p>Take a picture of a room then use img2img in stable diffusion automatic1111.<p>Set denoising strength to a value between 0.3 and 0.6. Lower than 0.3 and not much will change, higher than 0.6 it tends to start changing the whole room.<p>It can be used without a prompt or use a prompt to attempt to describe the room, like a "a living room with a grey couch a white table walls with wallpaper" then change parts of the prompt to morph it in desired direction, like add a chair something or add the name of art styles or "by someartistname". Just having a prompt that somewhat describes the room and pressing generate many times will also just create a lot of random alternative interiors, like in the video. If you want to create a video I guess you'd use deforum, but I haven't really tried that.<p>The stuff documented under img2img alternative test here can also be useful if you manage to dial it in properly. This is for keeping the image more stable and getting more control of what you change.
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I like this idea but I would suggest that you invest some time in some UX validation if you want to maximize the potential usage.<p>I own a SaaS that offers online 3D configurators for outdoor structures [1] since 2014, and tried something similar as a UX experiment a couple of years back; here is the gist of it:<p>We offered 20 different variations on the screen at the same time, and people had to gradually fine-tune their preference by clicking on the one they liked the most.<p>I tested this in the field, and it proved to be very confusing to the end-user, unless you highly constrain the amount of parameters that can change at the same time, and describe to the user what changed and go step by step.<p>In the end I decided to ditch the whole idea in favor of a hard-coded step-by-step wizard where users can adjust the relevant parameters themselves one by one, which tends to work the best for the majority of the users.<p>=> My suggestion for you would be to do something similar: highly constrain the potential changes, and guide your user step by step. If you manage to do this, I think you might have gold in your hands.<p>I would also love to challenge the naysayers who say the generated images don't make sense: in my opinion it will only be a matter of time before someone starts training or hardcoding a classifier that invalidates "wrong" images.
(Especially if one would be able to generate a reasonable 3D representation of the image without too much effort.)<p>As someone once said in a random AI video on the internet: "Dear fellow scholars, I wonder what we will be capable of just 2 more papers down the line"<p>[1] ** edit ** removed the URL, check my profile if you really want to know...
This is really nice, but there are some funny things suggested that might not be too easy to realize:<p>1. Simply remove the ceiling beams.<p>2. Extend the room and place another window into the wall.<p>3. Replace wall with window.<p>4. Cut room in half and replace one part with garden.<p>5. Open room to garden and slowly extend ceiling into garden.
And at the same time ... only variation of conformism ?<p>Stable Diffusion opens a lot a avenues and yet it is somewhat "restricted" to what it "knows/understands". Put differently, if cars it exposed to is black can it paint them pink ? What about even higher level construct ? It can not innovate can it ? Not yet ?<p>Anyways, fascinating.
Did you start with some stock photos? The photos of your kitchen?<p>There are a lot of changes in the windows and other stuff that is difficult to modify in real life. It would be nice to be able to restrict the changes, but it's probably difficult to "explain" that restriction to Stable Diffusion.
Isn't this like InteriorAI by Pieter Levels? You can add your own seed image in that one but it's monetized.<p><a href="https://interiorai.com" rel="nofollow">https://interiorai.com</a>
I love how part of it starts making me feel like the kitchen is slowly imprisoning me with less and less space.<p>It’s an apt analogy for chasing perfection and being trapped on the hedonism treadmill.