Using Stable Diffusion with Python

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1 – A Whirlwind of Stable Diffusion

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Introducing Stable Diffusion

Evolution of the Diffusion model

Before Transformer and Attention

Transformer transforms machine learning

CLIP from OpenAI makes a big difference

Generate images

DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion

Why Stable Diffusion

Which Stable Diffusion to use

Why this book

References

2

Setting Up the Environment for Stable Diffusion

Hardware requirements to run Stable Diffusion

GPU

System memory

Storage

Software requirements

CUDA installation

Installing Python for Windows, Linux, and macOS

Installing PyTorch

Running a Stable Diffusion pipeline

Using Google Colaboratory

Using Google Colab to run a Stable Diffusion pipeline

Summary

References

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Generating Images Using ...