{"id":65993,"date":"2025-07-12T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=65993"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:09:01","slug":"hpl-in-the-18th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/07\/12\/hpl-in-the-18th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"HPL in the 18th century"},"content":{"rendered":"

HPL in the 18th century. Would he have been a College Hill gent as he hoped, or (more likely) a jobbing waterfront printer and local news-sheet editor?<\/p>\n

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No, not the result of the new Flux Kontext, which is a bit ‘off’ in terms of this sort of thing since it works from a single image. Also slow<\/em>. Instead I made an SDXL LoRa of his face and shoulders, and used it with the superfast four-step SDXL checkpoint realvisxlV50_v50LightningBakedvae.safetensors<\/em><\/a>   Considering this generates a 1024px image in about 3 seconds on a very modest 12Gb graphics card, the quality here is acceptable. Not superb, a little glitchy if you look hard for it… but acceptable. And yes, tweaking the prompt will cause him to smile. But I thought I’d spare the reader that.<\/p>\n

The new Flux Kontext does have its uses though, including easy manga-fication of images.<\/p>\n

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HPL in the 18th century. Would he have been a College Hill gent as he hoped, or (more likely) a …<\/p>\n

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