MEETING OF THE MINDS - HERE WO GO AGAIN

“Not a bad thing to know something about darkness. You can’t talk about light without some knowledge of darkness. Like your buddy Nietzsche said, 'He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.' Keep that in mind.”
Kazuki Kaneshiro
Deep Dream - Text 2 Dream:
Using as a seed a result I got from a completely different prompt and trying it with another prompt I had used before gave me a entirely unexpected result. Working with the Artistic mode seems to be best for my taste. I cooked it at 50% prompt strength.
My prompt simply said 'Meeting of the Minds', but the determining factors are the modifiers I use: highly detailed intricate 4k imperial colors Unreal Engine cinematic postprocessing Surrealism H.R. Giger Cthulhu.


MEETING OF THE MINDS - HERE WE GO AGAIN
^{Using as a seed a result I got from a completely different prompt and trying it with this prompt I had used before gave me a entirely unexpected result. Working with the Artistic mode seems to be best for my taste. I cooked it at 50%.}
this was the seed image I used:
MEETING OF THE MINDS - A CURIOUS CAT
^{evolving this from a series of previous images and a prompt I used in a different context.}this actually started with a curious monkey: I tried many times with a seed image of a monkey contemplating a skeleton, and depending on the strength of the prompt used and the mode selected, I got widely different results.

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So using basically the same seed image at different prompt strengths, and also changing modes and adding/deleting modifiers makes for divergent results. These were all done on Deep Dream Text 2 Dream, and there are a number of modes to pick from. The ones I use most often are Fusion and Artistic, but at times I revert to the original mode they had, Stable Diffusion (old style). In any of the modes you can also select negative prompts, I usually pick automatic negative prompt. Supposedly it does away with the stuff that haunted early versions, such as misplaced limbs or really weird hands.
Having burned most of my credits (they do recover within 24 hours) I wanted to get away from the 'monkey business' and using the same prompt but without a seed image, and adding one stand-by moderation Cthulhu, I got this one here:

^{initially, I still had monkey in the prompt (it looked goofy) but I deleted it and ran it again}
MEETING OF THE MINDS - CTHULHU'S PALACEThis how AI works, you can with some skill get the results you want, or you can do like me at times and cook up a experimental (emphasis on 'mental') soup like a kid with a chemistry set.

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