Disco Diffusion – Weird and Wonderful

It`s magic…

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a large sailing ship trying to escape a storm. Created using the Disco Diffusion version adapted for ComfyUI.

txt2img: a large sailing ship trying to escape a storm | Click the image for fullscreen

Disco Diffusion is characterized by its stylistic diversity, profound complexity, unexpected connections, pop-culture elements, and experimental processes that can lead to unique, weird, and wonderful works of art.

The image at the beginning of this article shows a large sailing ship with torn sails fleeing from a storm, as does the following one.

a large sailing ship trying to escape a storm

txt2img: a large sailing ship trying to escape a storm | Click the image for fullscreen

The reflective, gold-colored sails and abstract symbols in the background are excellent examples of the ability to create visually stunning and thought-provoking compositions that, I believe, have been somewhat lost in the newer AI image generators.

Disco Diffusion used with ComfyUI

ComfyUI Workflow Disco Diffusion

ComfyUI Workflow Disco Diffusion Custom Nodes | Click the image for fullscreen

; How to prompt:
; Each line is prefixed with the starting step number of the prompt.
; More than one line with the same step number concatenates the two prompts together.
; Each individual prompt can be no more than 77 CLIP tokens long.
; Weights are parsed from the end of each prompt with "25:a fluffy fox:5" syntax
; Comments are written with the ';' character. Blank lines are ignored.

0:a large sailing ship trying to escape a storm, badly damage, high detail, 8k resolution.
0:monochromatic color scheme
;100:This set of prompts starts at step 100.
;100:This prompt has weight five:5

Disco Diffusion for ComfyUI
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A painting of a cityscape at sunset, reflected in a calm river.

A painting of a cityscape at sunset, reflected in a calm river. Created using the Disco Diffusion version adapted for ComfyUI. A painting of a cityscape at sunset, reflected in a calm river.

img2img: A painting of a cityscape at sunset, reflected in a calm river | Click the image for fullscreen

Steampunk Airship

DD 5.2 Google Colab:
A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation

a Steampunk airship

A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-1. Created using the Disco Diffusion version adapted for ComfyUI. A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-2. A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-3. A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-4. A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-5. A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation-6.

img2img, restoration: A Steampunk airship | Click the image for fullscreen

A steampunk airship, steampunk city, victorian architecture, mirrored in calm water, sunset, trending on artstation.

1st pic in the slideshow, High-Res Fix, two interations, downscale 2560x1536px | Click the image for fullscreen

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