AI design developing for art work

[acourtjester]

Here is a Video showing how to use AI to develop a clean object to create a SVG or DXF file for your CAM program to use for projects. He used it for printing 3-D projects but I sure you can use it for plasma art projects too. It produces image with no background so tracing is very quick.
Tell AI what type of image you want and you can refine changes before leaving then tracing in Inkscape. Looks like you can name things like animals, cars, forest scenes, mountain ranges, planes, people, endless types of objects. It tells the names of the AI sites to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpxUZ51LUs

[adbuch]

Tom - thanks for the share! It does look interesting, so let us know if you get a chance to try it out and please show us some or your results.
Thanks,
David

[Scratch]

Looks very interesting!

[Dirtmotor]

Wow ! That is too cool , and thanks for another rabbit hole to dive down ...

[plasmanewbie]

Interesting Tom, will check it out. Thanks

[PlasmacutOG]

Wow! ill be trying this for holloween designs on my plasma CNC

[acourtjester]

Ok I did some poking around with the info from the Video, here are 3 results with a simple prompt in different AI programs. I used the same input prompt to see what it would produce. The last is from DALL-E 3 and downloaded then importing into Inkscape, as far as I went. It went very well, will be better with an actual idea of something for a real project.

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[Locust]

I stumbled into the AI image generation technique on my own a few months ago. One control that would make your images a lot easier to work with would be to specify that your flag/beer can should be a black silhouette.

I use MidJourney. This was the best of the four images created on the first go using the prompt "black silhouette of an american flag with a beer can, no background"

This is almost cut-ready right off the bat. I would take this into Inkscape and scale my page to the size that I want my finished part to be (So I can maintain 1:1 scaling when I move to SheetCAM). I would then smooth out/thicken the extra-pointy bits so nobody gets stabbed, open up the details that I know are too small for the jet to cut, and delete or connect the entities that aren't connected to anything.

Using one color (black) against no background (typically white) makes it much easier to get clean lines when you create your bitmap image for editing.

[Locust]

Here is an image a few variations into "a silhouette of a moose against a background of a mountain, black and white, hard edges" coming out of MidJourney, and then my cleaned-up Inkscape version almost ready to cut. Too much going on, I missed a couple floaters that I deleted out in SheetCAM.

This was my most ambitious project, and to be honest, it's too much for a plasma cutter. I can usually get 2 hours of torch time out of a fine-cut consumable but I burned up a new cartridge on this job alone. There are nearly 900 pierces here.

[acourtjester]

Nice follow up on the AI post, as stated to busy for Plasma but shows it can be a useful tool when searching for basic project info

[adbuch]

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[SegoMan DeSigns]

I'm not sure if we want to give H A L access to the CNC tools.. Can you say T-4 series??

[Locust]

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I covered that in this paragraph.

"This is almost cut-ready right off the bat. I would take this into Inkscape and scale my page to the size that I want my finished part to be (So I can maintain 1:1 scaling when I move to SheetCAM). I would then smooth out/thicken the extra-pointy bits so nobody gets stabbed, open up the details that I know are too small for the jet to cut, and delete or connect the entities that aren't connected to anything.

My point is, it took 45 seconds to create the image, and it would take me another 10 minutes to clean it up to be ready for the machine. I'd have an original design in less than 15 minutes, which may not be a selling point in some markets but I stopped by a local shop that specializes in selling gifts/crafts made locally tonight and accidentally called out another local artist.

I wanted to point out how all my current work is completely my own and mentioned how when I was starting out I purchased DXFs and now feel that it's kind of cheating when you're marketing yourself as a local artist. I showed them this photo of a piece that I had made.

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They then showed me this from another local, and this is featured on the giftshop website.

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Well, that was awkward.

And then I laughed when I discovered that they were selling their items for $210. I must be underselling. I'm trying to clear out the last couple examples I have of that design for $60. 16 gauge, all powder coated (even the flame colored is clear powdered).

[Locust]

I'm not sure if we want to give H A L access to the CNC tools.. Can you say T-4 series??

As long as I don't use battery powered tools, I think I'm safe. Keep them on a short extension cord so they know whos boss.

[AREA]

Pretty impressive. Tried this with chatgtp but it kinda sucks unless i am just doing it wrong. Your images look very good.

[Locust]

Yeah, I think MidJourney is the way to go. I tried my same "black silhouette of an American flag with a beer can, no background" prompt with Dall-E which I think is the same as ChatGPT and it totally bombed.

It's about $100 a year for a subscription to MidJourney, but given the work it can output and the time saved in design, I think it's a no-brainer if you're doing anything artistic. At this point I'm just talking about basic silhouette images but MidJourney isn't even breaking a sweat with that.

I spent an hour one Saturday morning refining a prompt after getting the idea to infuse the popularity of tattoos into a Renaissance styled painting. I modeled my prompt after Titian's "Venus of Urbino" and came up with this, which I've censored as to not get in trouble.

[adbuch]

blue parts.jpg

I covered that in this paragraph.

"This is almost cut-ready right off the bat. I would take this into Inkscape and scale my page to the size that I want my finished part to be (So I can maintain 1:1 scaling when I move to SheetCAM). I would then smooth out/thicken the extra-pointy bits so nobody gets stabbed, open up the details that I know are too small for the jet to cut, and delete or connect the entities that aren't connected to anything.

My response was intended for Tom.

Nice follow up on the AI post, as stated to busy for Plasma but shows it can be a useful tool when searching for basic project info

I don't think these are necessarily "too busy" for plasma cutting.

David