{"id":186,"date":"2023-06-10T07:14:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2023-06-10T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T04:45:33","slug":"when-qr-codes-turn-into-works-of-art-through-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/when-qr-codes-turn-into-works-of-art-through-ai","title":{"rendered":"When QR Codes turn into works of art through AI."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In recent months, there has been a thriving trend in generating images using artificial intelligence (DALL-E, MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, &#8230;), which continue to impress with their exceptional quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, a user on the social media platform Reddit shared images generated by <strong>Stable Diffusion<\/strong> (Stable Diffusion is a latent text-to-image diffusion model capable of generating photo-realistic images) that have the unique feature of being functional Artistic QR codes. As you can see, these QR codes are truly magnificent!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/StableDiffusion\/comments\/141hg9x\/controlnet_for_qr_code\/\">ControlNet for QR Code<\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/nhciao\/\">u\/nhciao<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/StableDiffusion\/\">StableDiffusion<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This project, known as &#8220;<strong>ControlNet for QR code,<\/strong>&#8221; is truly remarkable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s  a small explanation  of the process:<br>Firstly, an image needs to be generated with minimal contrast and diverse textures, which can be easily accomplished using Stable Diffusion.<br><strong>ControlNet<\/strong> subsequently modifies the image by incorporating QR code-specific landmarks and custom markers, enabling accurate recognition by QR code scanners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original image before transformation into a QR code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/controlnet-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-192\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This technique is truly impressive and enables the creation of stylish QR codes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/i4WR5ULH1ZZYl8Watf3EPw\" title=\"\">ControlNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images generated by Stable Diffusion  that have the unique feature of being functional Artistic QR codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extendsclass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}