So, I’ve been playing around a bit, trying to figure out how I could get Google Gemini to maintain the same look of a character throughout a series of pictures, because up until now Gemini keeps changing the way a character looks, and that's really frustrating. It does seem there is a way and this is my first attempt. I’ll preface this by saying I’m not very good with computers. I don’t have Chloe’s programming skills, so this is me probably doing everything the hard way.
As an experiment I took the first picture I had randomly generated as “Emma’ (the one at the top of this post) and, because I was quite happy with it as a ‘look’ (her hair is cut short at the beginning of chapter one), I used it as a ‘model’ for any picture with “Emma” in it.
Basically, in each subsequent picture prompt, I uploaded the original picture and defined that Gemini should stick with the same appearance, which it seems to have done. Note, I haven’t tried to stabilise any other characters in the picture – it’s really just an experiment to see if I could do it first with just “Emma”. But if I could, then in theory I can do the same with multiple characters. These then are the pictures I generated that way, and I think this time around the appearance of “Emma” has been stabilised, which suggests I can do that going forwards for any character I’m happy with. See what you think.
Of course it was only after generating all the images based on the original that I realised I should have changed the original picture first to make the slave collar a bit narrower. Oh well… bit of a blonde moment. ;) Gemini is still very restrictive when it comes to content, so it has limited applications for me, but it's there for when I'm really desperate for pictures to go with stories!
Emma:
ReplyDelete(1) I was checking for Paladin’s concluding Act to No Good Deed, checked your site and discovered a new post! The short hair is quite becoming!
(2) What do you mean Gemini is restrictive? No cleavage?
(3) Great set of pictures. Looks like you stabilized the image of the man. I’m quite taken with the facial expressions.
vyeh
Vyeh,
DeleteI think Emma means that Gemini is quite puritanical in what she is allowed to draw. i.e. there can be no explicit sex scenes nor even a hint of a scarily clad slave slut. Gemini is no doubt American in origin and conforms to their cultural standards.
Likewise you will note that in John Norman's writings there is no reference to homosexuality even through Gor is based on ancient Greece/Rome. It is only Emma who has hinted at such practices in Secrets of Gor when Cassie was trained in the House of Andronicus.
I do wonder if we should have a competition between slaves trained in the pens of Banu Hashim and the House of Andronicus. The prize for the winner would be that the other would be under her authority for a week.
Donna
Actually, Mistress, John Norman does reference homosexuality in some of his books. Magicians of Gor is the main one. The attitude seems to be similar to Ancient Rome and Greece. Most men have no interest, but where some men do, they’re just left to their own devices provided they don’t trumpet it about the city.
DeleteAnd, yes, Mistress, Gemini has very strict censorship. And we’re not just talking about explicit scenes, either. Frankly, many book covers from the 1970s would fall foul of Gemini’s standards. It can be very frustrating.
Emma, I may not have read Magicians of Gor, especially if it was one of Norman's later works. I got fed up with his philosophising about why women love their collar, the first 8 or so were fine, then he just produced pages of turgid junk until his last few that you could get in print from WH Smiths. I have a limited amount of patience.
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Lady Donna,
DeleteMagicians was #25.
vyeh
Magicians was the last book published before his long hiatus. It was the one that introduced Boots Tarsk-Bit, IIRC. It also introduced the couching laws.
ReplyDeleteMagicians of Gor saw the return of Boots Tark-Bit, Master. He first appeared in my favourite Gor novel: Players of Gor, some years previously. Magicians of Gor was never published in the UK, and, as you say, it was the last volume to be published by a mainstream publisher in any country in the world. John Norman was blacklisted soon after. He got to write three volumes in his (Gor in space) Telnarian series, and then nothing after that until the rise of the Internet gave him the opportunity to follow a print on demand model. Magicians did see the introduction of the ‘Couching Law’.
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