{"id":40,"date":"2022-09-08T22:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/?p=40"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:55:23","slug":"week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 &#8211; Getting on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:399px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Summary <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">We transferred our producer position to two co-producer as our main producer left the team. We set up the core hours and regular team, instructor, and client meetings. We had our project logo and description. Our artists started to explore the possibilities of using AI-generated paintings in our project. We keep brainstorming as we get prepared for the 1\/4 walk-around next week.   <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-6-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Change of Roles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">Our producer Zibo had to leave the team due to some personal emergency. We had Jeffrey and Shicai take up the position and become co-producers. It took some effort to shift the ownership of the tools (g-drive, discord, etc) and accommodate the new responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\"><li>Jeffrey (Chia-Wei) Liu &#8211; Game Designer, Co-producer<\/li><li>Shicai He &#8211; Co-producer, Programmer, Artist<\/li><li>Tiange Zhou &#8211; Game Designer, 2D Artist<\/li><li>Yiming Xiao &#8211; Programmer, Game Designer, Tech Artist<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"946\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-21-113522-1024x946.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-21-113522-1024x946.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-21-113522-300x277.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-21-113522-768x710.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-21-113522.png 1368w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:1785px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-6-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Brainstorm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">We continued exploring references and adding things to our Miro board. We particularly found a lot of inspiring games in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x-team.com\/blog\/coding-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-3 wp-block-group alignwide has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-container-2 wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-4\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2292\" height=\"1382\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624.png 2292w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624-1024x617.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624-1536x926.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161624-2048x1235.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2292px) 100vw, 2292px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2634\" height=\"1610\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608.png 2634w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608-1536x939.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161608-2048x1252.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2634px) 100vw, 2634px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2592\" height=\"918\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702.png 2592w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702-1024x363.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702-768x272.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702-1536x544.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-161702-2048x725.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Miro board for brainstorming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Art Reference<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">There are many styles of pixel art, but we narrowed our art direction down to specifically a lighter and low-detailed cartoonized style, as we got inspired by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.igdb.com\/games\/garden-story\" target=\"_blank\">Garden Story<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.igdb.com\/games\/turnip-boy-commits-tax-evasion\" target=\"_blank\">Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-6 wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-container-5 wp-block-gallery-4 wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sccdlh.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Garden Story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/scg8e2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.igdb.com\/games\/turnip-boy-commits-tax-evasion\" target=\"_blank\">Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Gameplay Reference<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">We tried several programming games in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/x-team.com\/blog\/coding-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> and got really inspired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">Particularly, Baba is You stood out the most because it asks players to solve puzzles by modifying the statements of rules, and the statements relate to declaration\/configuration in programming but are in natural languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">Pony Island was another game that also impressed us because it required the player to observe patterns, solve riddles, find bugs, and break rules &#8211; all without programming skills as a prerequisite, which is very aligned with the concepts we&#8217;re trying to present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">Most of the other games required hands-on programming, more or less. But Exception allowed players to program mob AIs with sequences of visual cards, and it didn&#8217;t allow complex chaining of functions and expressions &#8211; which worked well because less freedom also means easier learning and chances of causing bugs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-9 wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-container-8 wp-block-gallery-7 wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sc6kyk.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"850\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sc6kyk.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sc6kyk.png 850w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sc6kyk-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/sc6kyk-768x426.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Baba is You<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nkdg3a9kvounmrx5w30p.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nkdg3a9kvounmrx5w30p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nkdg3a9kvounmrx5w30p.jpg 800w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nkdg3a9kvounmrx5w30p-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nkdg3a9kvounmrx5w30p-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pony Island<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-1024x643.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-1024x643.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-1536x964.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screenshot-2022-09-22-170954-2048x1286.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Exception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:835px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Logo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">The left bottom image is our final project logo. <br>The things on the monitor are meant to be seen as a smiling face as a whole.<br>As our team name is PicoPicoPi, the two sets of \u201cPico\u201d form the two eyes, with the &#8220;pic&#8221; as eyelashes and the \u201cO\u201d as pupils, and a tilted &#8220;P&#8221; serves as a mouth.<br>We emphasized the letter &#8220;I&#8221; and put it on the edge of the monitor because it is &#8220;I&#8221;, i.e. the player, who is breaking the rules in our game. Also, we chose neon green to align with the common color theme of a computer terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-12 wp-block-columns alignwide has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-10 wp-block-column has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" width=\"302\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08.png 512w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-192x192.png 192w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/cropped-logo-bg-08-32x32.png 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><figcaption>Final logo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-11 wp-block-column\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-1024x626.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" width=\"456\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-768x470.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-1536x939.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WeChat-Image_20220921114623-2048x1252.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><figcaption>References and Iterations<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:503px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-6-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"alignwide has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">AI-Generated Paintings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-15 wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-container-13 wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">As one of the big concerns for our team was that we only have one 2D artist, our programmer &amp; tech artist Yiming brought up the idea of using AI-generated paintings to support both the concept arts and in-game assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">We explored <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/CompVis\/stable-diffusion\" target=\"_blank\">Stable Diffusion<\/a>, an AI model that generates images by text description and image iterations. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lexica.art\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lexica<\/a> also provides a search engine for paintings generated by Stable Diffusion on other people&#8217;s computers, where we can search images with keywords, get inspired by the text input they use, and fine-tune the texts based on our needs to generate our own images. Below are some images we generated on our own computers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-14 wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264\" width=\"416\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/download1.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><figcaption>Some paintings we generated with Stable Diffusion<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull\" style=\"min-height:268px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-palette-color-7-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-palette-color-4-color has-text-color\">Next Step<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-3-color has-text-color\">Next week is the 1\/4 walk-around, so we&#8217;ll make slides and prepare for the presentation. We&#8217;ll also bring up several potential directions to share with the faculties.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":5}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/picopicopi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}