Last night, a Reddit user by the name of frigis9 posted a series of six images that feature detailed graphical upgrades to classic MS-DOS computer games such as Commander Keen 6 and The Secret of Monkey Island. The most interesting part is how they did it: by using an image synthesis technique called "img2img" (image to image), which takes an input image, applies a written text prompt, and generates a similar output image as a result. It's a feature of the Stable Diffusion image synthesis model released last week.
[...] Art quality in image synthesis currently requires much trial and error with prompts and cherry-picking to achieve the kinds of results frigis9 posted—likely hours of work. But with some incremental advances in image synthesis techniques and GPU power, we could imagine an emulator upgrading vintage game graphics in real time within a few years.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday September 05 2022, @09:08PM (1 child)
aka 8-bit nightmare fuel.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 05 2022, @09:11PM
Space Invaders was trying hard to be nightmare fuel, but 8 bit sprites can only go so far...
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