Playing with AI images and engraving on Maple plywood
F330 lens
85/45kHz/3 ns
LightBurn Stucki 380 DPI
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Those look top shelf!
That AI makes quick work of what would normally take forever. Just have to watch for little things like extra fingers, a foot on the end of a tail instead of the leg, little things like that.
Question: Do you open a new chat each project or do you just keep a running chat and keep adding?
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@Albroswift
Thank you
I start a new one
I use Gemini and ChatGPT
One usually does better than the other
I’ve been using the $20/month subscription of ChatGPT, I tried several and it works best for my needs. I would run out of data with the free version, and also the paid subscription gives a lot more detail. For scroll work, celtic knots, text fitting inside a shapes, other fills it does in 30-40 seconds what would take me hours or days. And the images produced trace perfectly in LB without any cleanup for the most part. I tried having the A.I. output SVG files directly but didn’t work so well.
This is how Skynet explained it:
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Don’t care so much were the image was generated, but you’ve got a great grayscale range.
Attempting to compare mine with yours is frustrating.
Every time I see your stuff, I feel like I could just
Great work.
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Hahaha, love it!!! How long did it take you to find that GIF?
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I downloaded the commercial for the movie. Then, using Kdenlive, I marked the area I wanted to process and had it render a gif.
Kdenlive is free and open source software.
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So these are AI generated mock-ups of how it might look on wood? Do you have any examples where you have tried a real world test with this source material?
I’m pretty sure those are the real engravings.
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I really don’t think they are unfortunately. I can’t see how white highlights can be created on the wood and there is a very strange fake grain effect consistent in the renders.
@tomgeen
ALL these images are engraved on wood as in description
@tomgeen
Obviously you have no idea who I am and how long I have been doing this
Ask Jack Wilborn @jkwilborn
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I have a few of his posts bookmarked, might want to check out a few posts.
If that doesn’t convince you, you might do some research on who created the NTM (Norton Tile Method).
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@jkwilborn
I get a lot of that
Perhaps now at my age I take that as a compliment
When I engrave cutting boards for a customer, I will get white where the pattern is normally black. I notice it often happens when engraving over a grain (hard part) of the wood. And it happens a lot in bamboo.
You might need to know that Nicky Norton (of NTM and NWT fame) sets the standard all of the rest of us wish we could obtain.
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@MikeyH
Thankyou Mikey 
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Ignorance is bliss… 
It’s difficult communications on these as you don’t really know who’s who. Most don’t realize that not a lot of sites actually malfunction like Reddit.
You’ve been a trailblazer, don’t let the popcorn gallery bother you, I wouldn’t.
Thanks for all the info you’ve provided us over the years.
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@jkwilborn I guess These engravings
would blow him away
Maple plywood
5 watt UV
85/45kHz/3 ns
LB stucki 380 DPI
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Excellent, work as usual.
Thank you for providing the job settings.
@tomgeen don’t feel like we’re really picking on you. We’re glad your with us, hang in there.
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