In the past 3 weeks, I built an app that can summon images by casting a few spells, and then editing it to the way you liked. It took a minute to summon the picture on the latest and greatest iPhone 14 Pro, uses about 2GiB in-app memory, and requires you to download about 2GiB data to get started. Even though the app itself is rock solid, given these requirements, I would probably call it barely usable.

Even if it took a minute to paint one image, now my Camera Roll is filled with drawings from this app. It is an addictive endeavor.

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Arbeitsspeicher ist einer der limitierenden Faktoren dieser technisch beeindruckenden Umsetzung. Deshalb ist für Draw Things mindestens ein iPhone 11 notwendig; idealerweise ein iPhone 12 Pro mit 6-GB-RAM.

Inspirationen von Text-zu-Bild-Kommandos gibt es beispielsweise auf Lexica.art. Kopiert einfach die „prompts“ in das Textfeld der iOS-App.

Durch Zufall bin ich in dieser Woche selbst tief in den Malertopf der Bilder-KI gefallen. weiterlesen

Darrell Etherington schreibt auf TechCrunch über den neuen Apple TV:

Another excellent video quality feature that Apple has introduced here is something called Quick Media Switching (QMS_VRR), which gets rid of the momentary blackout that currently occurs when switching between different frame rates for different media. If you have the “Match Content” for frame rates turned on, you’ll be familiar with this, since it happens almost any time you start streaming an actual show or movie from most apps.

QMS will get rid of that blackout — once it arrives via a software update later this year. I also wasn’t able to test this because it’s not available, but it sounds like a nice-to-have feature, with the caveat that it only applies to switching frame rates, and not to switching color spaces like from standard- to high-dynamic range content.

Das Feature wird es allerdings nur auf den neusten Apple TV schaffen (und erfordert Fernseher mit HDMI 2.1a-Anschluss):

I asked Apple about this directly and they told me that QMS_VRR will only be available on the new model that drops on Friday – so even though it’s a software update, we won’t see it on the older 4K hardware in case anyone was curious.