huidi xiang 










escaping bird kit
2022

3D printed PLA, wood, cement, videos playing on loop
top video:
360 degree turntable animation of the 3D rendered escaping bird.
bottom video:
left: an excerpt from The Simpsons S07E07 "King-Size Homer," where the drinking bird toy is typing the “Y” key
right: a slideshow of 32 images generated by text-to-image machine learning model Stable Diffusion.



11/11/2022 - 12/18/2022
created for the group exhibition “In Good Company” at Lydian Stater


03/14/2024 - 04/25/2024
part of the group exhibition “Running Jokes” at EFA (The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts) Studio






















bottom video

left: an excerpt from The Simpsons S07E07 "King-Size Homer.” 

right: a slideshow of 32 images generated by text-to-image machine learning model Stable Diffusion.



text-to-image machine learning model info
(each image is generated by one prompt shown below.)


Notebook: Deforum Stable Diffusion v0.5
(Stable Diffusion by Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, Dominik Lorenz, Patrick Esser, Björn Ommer and the Stability.ai Team. K Diffusion by Katherine Crowson.Notebook by deforum)
License:CreativeML OpenRAIL-M

NVIDIA GPU: Tesla T4, 15109 MiB, 15109 MiB
Model:
model_config: customv1-inference.yaml     
model_checkpoint: customsd-v1-4-full-ema.ckptsd-v1-4.ckptsd-v1-3-full-ema.ckptsd-v1-3.ckptsd-v1-2-full-ema.ckptsd-v1-2.ckptsd-v1-1-full-ema.ckptsd-v1-1.ckptrobo-diffusion-v1.ckptwaifu-diffusion-v1-3.ckpt   

Settings:
Image Settings
  W:512
  H:512
Sampling Settings
  seed: -1
  sampler:
klmsdpm2dpm2_ancestralheuneulereuler_ancestralplmsddim   steps: 50
  scale: 7
  ddim_eta: 0.0

Prompts:

[ ]
prompts = [
"A drinking bird",
"A dipping bird",
"A drinking bird toy",
"A toy drinking bird",
"A drinking bird toy sculpture"
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture",
"A female 3D-printed drinking bird",
"A male 3D-printed drinking bird",
"A non-binary 3D-printed drinking bird",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a computer",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a computer and a keyboard",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy hitting the keyboard",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy hitting the escape key on the keyboard",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy hitting the escape key",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a bow",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with high heels",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a bow and high heels",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a red bow and red high heels",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with yellow feet",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet, hitting the esc key on the keyboard",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet in a wood box",
"A 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture in a wood box",
"An unassembled 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture",
"An unassembled 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet",
"An unassembled 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet in a wood box",
"An unassembled 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet in a wood box",
"An unassembled 3D-printed drinking bird toy sculpture with a red bow, red high heels, and yellow feet in a wood box",

]