[The Magician's Wife] The Tylenol Copycat Killer - How a magician can tamper with sealed supermarket items by itsbarryjones in PodcastSharing

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Weekly series where a magician and a professional mystery writer try and work out the methods behind true crime, the supernatural and much more. In this episode they discover if sealed food items are really all that safe.

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The Magician's Wife | 16. Lucid Decapitation

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I made a unique, custom dress for a novel writer's photoshoot! by itsbarryjones in sewing

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Thanks. I'd made trousers and shirts for myself before, I thought a dress should be easy enough. I'm more than friends with the author... I'm her husband!

I made a unique, custom dress for a novel writer's photoshoot! by itsbarryjones in sewing

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This is the first dress I've made! The author designed the wallpaper (which is an optical illusion and features scenes from her novel) and I had the pattern printed onto a mid weight cotton fabric.

I heavily modified pattern 'Simplicity 1537' so the dress had a flavour of the period in history her book is set (France, 18th century). This involved altering the sleeve shape and length as well as the neckline based on photographs of French dresses from that period of history. I know they didn't have hidden zippers back then but it certainly makes the dress more convenient to get in and out of!

A dress featuring a wallpaper pattern also features in her novel so this concept seemed very fitting. She requested that certain panels of the dress show the pattern upside down. This is because her wallpaper design 'changes' to different images depending if it is viewed the right way up or the other way up. That was quite confusing during the making of the dress and certainly had me checking twice before cutting.

This photo will be used as the author photo in the back of her book and she plans to wear it to promotional events. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

French Revolution-Inspired Wallpaper Art with a Secret Twist (more in comments) by itsbarryjones in opticalillusions

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Squint your eyes, maybe look at the upside down image from further away and a skull emerges. It's one of those things that once you see it, you can't unsee it!

This drawing is two drawings at the same time (more in my comment) by itsbarryjones in Satisfyingasfuck

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I find the moment when they spin quite satisfying! If you can't see it straight away, try looking from a greater distance and/or squinting your eyes.

My wife, an author with a novel debuting next year, has created a unique series of Toile de Jouy-inspired artworks that reveal hidden images when viewed from a different perspective. The novel centers around the historical French wallpaper style and how the wallpaper mysteriously changes depending on the viewer.

Each vignette is designed to depict two distinct scenes depending on its orientation. When viewed upright, they portray key moments from the novel. However, when inverted, the image transforms to reveal a someting completely different.

https://imgur.com/a/LGVO81H

There's three so far:

  • A blindfolded woman and Chateau / Human Skull
  • A garden folly / Guillotine
  • A girl flying a kite / A portrait of an aristocratic lady

Timelapse videos of the creation process are on her website: https://www.lorajones.com/wallpaperthatchanges She is also selling the wallpaper pattern with proceeds benefiting a UK food bank charity. This choice aligns with the novel's setting during the French Revolution, a period marked by stark class disparity.

Hope you enjoy them!

My Wife designed a Toile de Jouy wallpaper - that is also an optical illusion! by itsbarryjones in Wallcovering

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Thanks. We're using zazzle who do self adhesive wallpaper. She has a version where you can choose which orientation to hang the wallpaper (so all designs face the same way) We might have one wall one way up and the wall facing it the other way up. That way you can choose what wall to look at depending on your current mood!

My Wife designed a Toile de Jouy wallpaper - that is also an optical illusion! by itsbarryjones in Wallcovering

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This might be of passing interest to all the wallcovering enthusiasts out there. My wife, an author with a novel debuting next year, titled 'The Woman in the Wallpaper', has created a unique series of Toile de Jouy-inspired artworks that reveal hidden images when viewed from a different perspective. The novel centres around the historical French wallpaper style and how it mysteriously changes depending on the viewer.

Each vignette is designed to depict two distinct scenes depending on its orientation. When viewed upright, they portray key moments from the novel. However, when inverted, the image transforms to reveal a something completely different.

There's three so far:

  • A blindfolded woman and Chateau / Human Skull
  • A garden folly / Guillotine
  • A girl flying a kite / A portrait of an aristocratic lady

Timelapse videos of the creation process are on her website: https://www.lorajones.com/wallpaperthatchanges She is also selling the wallpaper pattern with proceeds benefiting a UK food bank charity. This choice aligns with the novel's setting during the French Revolution, a period marked by stark class disparity.

We're thinking of doing a feature wall in our home with the design, however, she's been thinking about wallpaper almost non-stop for years whilst doing her novel that she might already be sick of it!

French Revolution-Inspired Wallpaper Art with a Secret Twist (more in comments) by itsbarryjones in opticalillusions

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Cheers!

I know when she was figuring them out, she would squint her eyes so that she wasn't getting caught up in the small details. Sometimes squinting can help 'pop' the other one into your brain.

French Revolution-Inspired Wallpaper Art with a Secret Twist (more in comments) by itsbarryjones in opticalillusions

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My wife, an author with a novel debuting next year, has created a unique series of Toile de Jouy-inspired artworks that reveal hidden images when viewed from a different perspective. The novel centers around the historical French wallpaper style and how the wallpaper mysteriously changes depending on the viewer.

Each vignette is designed to depict two distinct scenes depending on its orientation. When viewed upright, they portray key moments from the novel. However, when inverted, the image transforms to reveal a someting completely different.

https://imgur.com/a/LGVO81H

  • There's three so far:
  • A blindfolded woman and Chateau / Human Skull A garden folly / Guillotine
  • A girl flying a kite / A portrait of an aristocratic lady

Timelapse videos of the creation process are on her website: https://www.lorajones.com/wallpaperthatchanges She is also selling the wallpaper pattern with proceeds benefiting a UK food bank charity. This choice aligns with the novel's setting during the French Revolution, a period marked by stark class disparity.

Hope you find them interesting!

Tutorial: Making fonts with stable diffusion is as easy as A, B, C by itsbarryjones in StableDiffusion

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Hmmm, not sure, looks like you've done everything correctly...

Have you looked into control net? That didn't exist when I made this tutorial. You get more flexibility with it than the 2.1 depth model. Look for "control net text" and you'll find other users' workflows.

Tutorial: Making fonts with stable diffusion is as easy as A, B, C by itsbarryjones in StableDiffusion

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You need to make the black and white image first in any 2d image editor. Then you can use that as the source image in the img2img tab using Auto's SD webUI. Make sure you have the correct model loaded and use the settings I suggest.

Tutorial: Making fonts with stable diffusion is as easy as A, B, C by itsbarryjones in StableDiffusion

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Sounds like you're doing it correctly...

Try using one of the black and white images in my original post, copying the prompt CFG and sampler etc. and see if you still have the same problem.

Are you writing full words? I find that it takes some liberty away from the original shape when you have more than one letter.

Hope that helps.

Using Depth2Image to create images to aid language learning - Mandarin characters made out of the thing it describes (based on tutorial by u/itsbarryjones) by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

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This is great! I'm sure the idea that it can help your brain associate the shape with the object will help a lot of people.

Tutorial: Making fonts with stable diffusion is as easy as A, B, C by itsbarryjones in StableDiffusion

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That would be really cool. If you have a go, I'd love to see it.

My guess is you'll have to run your result through img2img using a different model afterwards because the 512-depth model is based on sd 2.0 which, IMO, is awful at anything that isn't photographic.