Images situated terminology

Processual images

The process of diffusion that lies at the heart of image generation gradually translates an image made of noise into an image matching a prompt. The samples below show the various stages through which the generator go through in order to produce the final image. The first noise image is on the top left, the result is on the bottom right.

All the steps towards an image generated with Stable Diffusion XL and the prompt "Thinking, writing, practicing in circles"

Image generated with the prompt Shared Present

All the steps towards an image generated with Stable Diffusion XL and the prompt "shared present across divisive cultural and historical differences; of a temporary unity of the present across the planet"

All the steps towards an image generated with Stable Diffusion XL and the prompt "The aesthetic is political precisely because of its ability to differentiate itself from the normally inconspicuous organization of our everyday lifeworld"

Reflexive images

When generating images, computer scientists want to know how the different words in a prompt affect the image. In the following samples, a generated image is overlaid by a heatmap that represents where a given word affects more strongly the result. The red regions (the hottest) are the most affected by the word and the blue ones are the least affected (cold ones). The first sample shows the generated image and two heatmaps, The second and third samples only show heatmaps.

On the left, the generated image and two heatmaps for the words openness and sense

Heatmap images for each term of the prompt : "practicing in circles"