THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 2024
If everything worked, this is a picture of a hedgehog

Have a spooOOOooky HalloweeEEEen
An illustration of a hedgehog cosplaying as a zombie wearing torn clothes at midnight in front of a haunted house, style of simon stalenhag illustration, style of beksinski, sharp teeth, moldy, deteriorating, tiny spooky ghost in background, (glowing eyes=1.05), bats flying across moon

WHAT IS THIS?

This is a site that generates a new A.I. hedgehog picture every morning. I use an A.I. system called Stable Diffusion, and the image prompts are randomized. The text of the prompts is mostly sourced from me and my friends.

WHY IS THIS?

Like all right-thinking people, my mom likes hedgehogs. I made this site in case she's ever feeling gloomy because sometimes, when you're feeling down, a nice picture of a hedgehog can brighten your day. So if you're having a real time of it, I hope these pictures cheer you up, because even people who aren't my mom deserve to smile (sometimes).

CREDITS

This website is built with open source tools, including:

  1. Stable Diffusion - the core technology, an open source generative A.I. system.
  2. ComfyUI - a flexible program that uses Stable Diffusion to generate images.
  3. ComfyScript - a Python front-end to Comfy so that I don't have to load weird JSON files.
  4. Flask - A Python website framework that I learned so I could make this site. Hope I didn't mess it up too badly.
  5. DynamicPrompts - A Python module that strings together random image prompts.
  6. ZavyChromaXL - a Stable Diffusion model I'm trying out. Images after 2024-02-14 use this model.
  7. Dreamshaper XL Turbo - The particular Stable Diffusion model that the images come from. Images up to 2024-02-14 used this model.
  8. Barebones - A basic responsive CSS that works well and isn't as complicated as Bootstrap.
  9. My Friends & Family - They let me spend time on this, and helped come up with some really great prompts and ideas.
  10. Prompts from the Fooocus Project - I've included general style prompts from TWRI, 3Diva, and K3nt3L.
  11. Me - I stood on the shoulders of giants, and just glued all this stuff together. I have email, you could send me one.

The workflow that generates the images is available here. There is an older version (for pre-2024-02-16 images) too.