#image-generation

curl 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    model: "openai/gpt-5-image-mini",
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Draw a cat" }],
    modalities: ["image"],
    image_config: { "aspect_ratio": "16:9" }
  }' | jq -r '.choices[0].message.images[0].image_url.url' | cut -c23- | base64 -d > cat.png

• It's use-case / domain transfer: showing what it's useful for in real life - opening ideas, suggesting workflows.
• It's style transfer: showing how to use it.

1. Openverse: CC, scale, simple REST.
2. Wikimedia Commons: CC, historic/diagram breadth.
3. Pixabay: easy, free, broad, but license fuzzier.
4. Pexels: beautiful but custom license.
5. Unsplash: stylish but restrictive.
6. OpenClipart: niche, useful for icons.

• Stickers
  • Sending your wife AI-generated family photos, stickers, etc. is now a thing. Both an AI use case and a ... um... "family media" (?) use case. For example, ask ChatGPT to "Create a transparent comic-style sticker of a lady chef featuring this person happily cooking salad" with a photo. Then send it as a custom sticker. Image
  • Vadivelu stickers work well but the Tamil script generation is poor. Image
• Asking ChatGPT to generate 25-year younger pictures of people produces pretty poor results if you really knew what they looked like then. If you didn't, it's fairly convincing. Yet another example of "hallucinations" - except, it does have its uses.

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• Draw a dead man beside the pool of blood. Add an armor to the attacker. Significantly improve the quality of this picture.
• Add a red pool of blood next to the dead man. The armor looks like a frock. Make it more like an armor. Make this look like a professional drawing, even though it's in stick figures.
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• Draw it in the style of Picasso
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• GitHub is an option. Likely to last long-term. Clone-able.
• Archive.org is a good too but may suffer from bandwidth constraints.
• Imgur remains popular but it's unclear if it will remain unrestricted.
• Flickr has had a flaky history with limits and commercialization.
• WikiMedia Commons deletes personal uploads by first-time contributors. Only files clearly useful for a large audience are retained.

• Base data visualizations that I can animate with code
• Icons in a specific style
• Comic strips
• Explainers for talks or student material
• Featured images for blog posts
• Architecture diagrams?

• Automated geoscience image descriptions Ref
• Interpret Wind Turbine photos and charts, construction monitoring, equipment maintenance & charts Ref
• Forecast weather based on cloud photos! Ref
• Analyze thermal image of solar panels, electroluminescence images for warranty claims, ROI estimates from Google Sunroof rooftop images Ref
• Corrosion detection in electricity towers, turbines, storage tanks, penstock. Interpret non-destructive test images Ref

• DINOv2 creates image embeddings (Apr 2023)
• ImageBind is an embedding model for text, images, audio, and more (Jun 2023)

• Flux for open-weights image generation
• Runway Gen 3 for video generation
• Suno for music generation