We’ve all enjoyed creating game assets, bizarre selfies, custom stock images, and seedy nudes, but it was only a matter of time before one of the major hardware makers jumped on the AI image generation bandwagon. . Today, laser cutting and printing company Glowforge released the Magic Canvas feature. With this feature, even those of us who aren’t artistic can create fun and creative artwork optimized for the company’s laser etching machines.
“This magic comes from how we trained and mapped the training data between the text and the images. This allows us to quickly create something that actually works well with lasers. Glowforge’s TechCrunch In an interview, he demonstrated the new Magic Canvas feature.
The company has created many styles (from heroic portraits and pencil drawings to super cute cartoonish characters). Combining styles with prompts, Glowforge software sends commands to the cloud, and powerful graphics cards generate images based on your prompts. If the user doesn’t like the image, he can click “again” to create a new version of the image, or select “use this image” and he will pass the AI-generated masterpiece to the printer.
“I wish I could paint,” Shapiro laughs. “With Magic Canvas, nothing compares to what a professional artist can do.
Glowforge can etch and charge wood, acrylic, fabric, and all sorts of other materials (and chocolate if you want your coco to be crispy).
Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro and our trusted correspondent had a blast creating tech company logos, characters, and scuba diving boxfish. Because, well, it doesn’t. Image credit: glow forge.
“After years of research, generative AI is finally paying off. At Glowforge, we help our customers turn their ideas into reality by quickly and easily printing beautiful, physical products. I’ve been working on cutting-edge artificial intelligence research to find new ways to do things, and today I’m proud to announce Magic Canvas to the world.” So the last hurdle was the hardest, how to turn ideas into reality quickly without complex tools, we can use the latest AI technologies to deliver solutions, supercomputers in the cloud, Create artwork just for you.”
The company has filed patents related to its Magic Canvas software, and the team has specific details about the precise latent diffusion neural networks it uses to generate AI artwork made for laser engraving. We were reluctant to share. The new feature is part of the company’s $50/month (or $600/year) Glowforge premium subscription, and Magic Canvas is available on all models starting today.
