Stable Diffusion Dream Script

This is a fork of CompVis/stable-diffusion, the wonderful open source text-to-image generator.

The original has been modified in several ways:

Interactive command-line interface similar to the Discord bot

The dream.py script, located in scripts/dream.py, provides an interactive interface to image generation similar to the "dream mothership" bot that Stable AI provided on its Discord server. Unlike the txt2img.py and img2img.py scripts provided in the original CompViz/stable-diffusion source code repository, the time-consuming initialization of the AI model initialization only happens once. After that image generation from the command-line interface is very fast.

The script uses the readline library to allow for in-line editing, command history (up and down arrows), autocompletion, and more. To help keep track of which prompts generated which images, the script writes a log file of image names and prompts to the selected output directory. In addition, as of version 1.02, it also writes the prompt into the PNG file's metadata where it can be retrieved using scripts/images2prompt.py

The script is confirmed to work on Linux and Windows systems. It should work on MacOSX as well, but this is not confirmed. Note that this script runs from the command-line (CMD or Terminal window), and does not have a GUI.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/dream.py
* Initializing, be patient...
Loading model from models/ldm/text2img-large/model.ckpt
LatentDiffusion: Running in eps-prediction mode
DiffusionWrapper has 872.30 M params.
making attention of type 'vanilla' with 512 in_channels
Working with z of shape (1, 4, 32, 32) = 4096 dimensions.
making attention of type 'vanilla' with 512 in_channels
Loading Bert tokenizer from "models/bert"
setting sampler to plms

* Initialization done! Awaiting your command...
dream> ashley judd riding a camel -n2 -s150
Outputs:
   outputs/img-samples/00009.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -n2 -s150 -S 416354203
   outputs/img-samples/00010.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -n2 -s150 -S 1362479620

dream> "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g
    outputs/img-samples/00011.png: "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g -S 2685670268
    seeds for individual rows: [2685670268, 1216708065, 2335773498, 822223658, 714542046, 3395302430]
dream> q

# this shows how to retrieve the prompt stored in the saved image's metadata
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/images2prompt.py outputs/img_samples/*.png
00009.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -s150 -S 416354203
00010.png: "ashley judd riding a camel" -s150 -S 1362479620
00011.png: "there's a fly in my soup" -n6 -g -S 2685670268

The dream> prompt's arguments are pretty much identical to those used in the Discord bot, except you don't need to type "!dream" (it doesn't hurt if you do). A significant change is that creation of individual images is now the default unless --grid (-g) is given. For backward compatibility, the -i switch is recognized. For command-line help type -h (or --help) at the dream> prompt.

The script itself also recognizes a series of command-line switches that will change important global defaults, such as the directory for image outputs and the location of the model weight files.

Image-to-Image

This script also provides an img2img feature that lets you seed your creations with a drawing or photo. This is a really cool feature that tells stable diffusion to build the prompt on top of the image you provide, preserving the original's basic shape and layout. To use it, provide the --init_img option as shown here:

dream> "waterfall and rainbow" --init_img=./init-images/crude_drawing.png --strength=0.5 -s100 -n4

The --init_img (-I) option gives the path to the seed picture. --strength (-f) controls how much the original will be modified, ranging from 0.0 (keep the original intact), to 1.0 (ignore the original completely). The default is 0.75, and ranges from 0.25-0.75 give interesting results.

Weighted Prompts

You may weight different sections of the prompt to tell the sampler to attach different levels of priority to them, by adding :(number) to the end of the section you wish to up- or downweight. For example consider this prompt:

    tabby cat:0.25 white duck:0.75 hybrid

This will tell the sampler to invest 25% of its effort on the tabby cat aspect of the image and 75% on the white duck aspect (surprisingly, this example actually works). The prompt weights can use any combination of integers and floating point numbers, and they do not need to add up to 1.

Changes

• v1.08 (?? August 2022)

  • Escape single quotes on the dream> command before trying to parse. This avoids parse errors.
  • Removed instruction to install Python3.8 as first step in Windows installed. Turns out that anaconda3 does it for you!

• v1.07 (23 August 2022)

  • Image filenames will now never fill gaps in the sequence, but will be assigned the next higher name in the chosen directory. This ensures that the alphabetic and chronological sort orders are the same.

• v1.06 (23 August 2022)

  • Added weighted prompt support contributed by xraxra
  • Example of using weighted prompts to tweak a demonic figure contributed by bmaltais

• v1.05 (22 August 2022 - after the drop)

  • Filenames now use the following formats: 000010.95183149.png -- Two files produced by the same command (e.g. -n2), 000010.26742632.png -- distinguished by a different seed.

    000011.455191342.01.png -- Two files produced by the same command using 000011.455191342.02.png -- a batch size>1 (e.g. -b2). They have the same seed.

    000011.4160627868.grid#1-4.png -- a grid of four images (-g); the whole grid can be regenerated with the indicated key

  • It should no longer be possible for one image to overwrite another

  • You can use the "cd" and "pwd" commands at the dream> prompt to set and retrieve the path of the output directory.

• v1.04 (22 August 2022 - after the drop)

  • Updated README to reflect installation of the released weights.
  • Suppressed very noisy and inconsequential warning when loading the frozen CLIP tokenizer.

• v1.03 (22 August 2022)

  • The original txt2img and img2img scripts from the CompViz repository have been moved into a subfolder named "orig_scripts", to reduce confusion.

• v1.02 (21 August 2022)

  • A copy of the prompt and all of its switches and options is now stored in the corresponding image in a tEXt metadata field named "Dream". You can read the prompt using scripts/images2prompt.py, or an image editor that allows you to explore the full metadata. Please run "conda env update -f environment.yaml" to load the k_lms dependencies!!

• v1.01 (21 August 2022)

  • added k_lms sampling. Please run "conda env update -f environment.yaml" to load the k_lms dependencies!!
  • use half precision arithmetic by default, resulting in faster execution and lower memory requirements Pass argument --full_precision to dream.py to get slower but more accurate image generation

Installation

There are separate installation walkthroughs for Linux/Mac and Windows.

Linux/Mac

1. You will need to install the following prerequisites if they are not already available. Use your operating system's preferred installer

• Python (version 3.8.5 recommended; higher may work)
• git

2. Install the Python Anaconda environment manager using pip3.

~$ pip3 install anaconda

After installing anaconda, you should log out of your system and log back in. If the installation worked, your command prompt will be prefixed by the name of the current anaconda environment, "(base)".

3. Copy the stable-diffusion source code from GitHub:

(base) ~$ git clone https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion.git

This will create stable-diffusion folder where you will follow the rest of the steps.

4. Enter the newly-created stable-diffusion folder. From this step forward make sure that you are working in the stable-diffusion directory!

(base) ~$ cd stable-diffusion
(base) ~/stable-diffusion$

5. Use anaconda to copy necessary python packages, create a new python environment named "ldm", and activate the environment.

(base) ~/stable-diffusion$ conda env create -f environment.yaml
(base) ~/stable-diffusion$ conda activate ldm
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$

After these steps, your command prompt will be prefixed by "(ldm)" as shown above.

6. Load a couple of small machine-learning models required by stable diffusion:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/preload_models.py

Note that this step is necessary because I modified the original just-in-time model loading scheme to allow the script to work on GPU machines that are not internet connected. See Workaround for machines with limited internet connectivity

7. Now you need to install the weights for the stable diffusion model.

For running with the released weights, you will first need to set up an acount with Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co). Use your credentials to log in, and then point your browser at https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-original. You may be asked to sign a license agreement at this point.

Click on "Files and versions" near the top of the page, and then click on the file named "sd-v1-4.ckpt". You'll be taken to a page that prompts you to click the "download" link. Save the file somewhere safe on your local machine.

Now run the following commands from within the stable-diffusion directory. This will create a symbolic link from the stable-diffusion model.ckpt file, to the true location of the sd-v1-4.ckpt file.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ mkdir -p models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ ln -sf /path/to/sd-v1-4.ckpt models/ldm/stable-diffusion-v1/model.ckpt

8. Start generating images!

# for the pre-release weights use the -l or --liaon400m switch
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py -l

# for the post-release weights do not use the switch
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py

# for additional configuration switches and arguments, use -h or --help
(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 scripts/dream.py -h

9. Subsequently, to relaunch the script, be sure to run "conda activate ldm" (step 5, second command), enter the "stable-diffusion" directory, and then launch the dream script (step 8). If you forget to activate the ldm environment, the script will fail with multiple ModuleNotFound errors.

Updating to newer versions of the script

This distribution is changing rapidly. If you used the "git clone" method (step 5) to download the stable-diffusion directory, then to update to the latest and greatest version, launch the Anaconda window, enter "stable-diffusion", and type:

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ git pull

This will bring your local copy into sync with the remote one.

Windows

1. Install Anaconda3 (miniconda3 version) from here: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/install/windows/

2. Install Git from here: https://git-scm.com/download/win

3. Launch Anaconda from the Windows Start menu. This will bring up a command window. Type all the remaining commands in this window.

4. Run the command:

git clone https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion.git

This will create stable-diffusion folder where you will follow the rest of the steps.

5. Enter the newly-created stable-diffusion folder. From this step forward make sure that you are working in the stable-diffusion directory!

cd stable-diffusion

6. Run the following two commands:

conda env create -f environment.yaml    (step 6a)
conda activate ldm                      (step 6b)

This will install all python requirements and activate the "ldm" environment which sets PATH and other environment variables properly.

7. Run the command:

python scripts\preload_models.py

This installs several machine learning models that stable diffusion requires. (Note that this step is required. I created it because some people are using GPU systems that are behind a firewall and the models can't be downloaded just-in-time)

8. Now you need to install the weights for the big stable diffusion model.

For running with the released weights, you will first need to set up an acount with Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co). Use your credentials to log in, and then point your browser at https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion-v-1-4-original. You may be asked to sign a license agreement at this point.

Click on "Files and versions" near the top of the page, and then click on the file named "sd-v1-4.ckpt". You'll be taken to a page that prompts you to click the "download" link. Now save the file somewhere safe on your local machine. The weight file is >4 GB in size, so downloading may take a while.

Now run the following commands from within the stable-diffusion directory to copy the weights file to the right place:

mkdir -p models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1
copy C:\path\to\sd-v1-4.ckpt models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1\model.ckpt

Please replace "C:\path\to\sd-v1.4.ckpt" with the correct path to wherever you stashed this file. If you prefer not to copy or move the .ckpt file, you may instead create a shortcut to it from within "models\ldm\stable-diffusion-v1".

9. Start generating images!

# for the pre-release weights
python scripts\dream.py -l

# for the post-release weights
python scripts\dream.py

10. Subsequently, to relaunch the script, first activate the Anaconda command window (step 3), enter the stable-diffusion directory (step 5, "cd \path\to\stable-diffusion"), run "conda activate ldm" (step 6b), and then launch the dream script (step 9).

Updating to newer versions of the script

This distribution is changing rapidly. If you used the "git clone" method (step 5) to download the stable-diffusion directory, then to update to the latest and greatest version, launch the Anaconda window, enter "stable-diffusion", and type:

git pull

This will bring your local copy into sync with the remote one.

Simplified API for text to image generation

For programmers who wish to incorporate stable-diffusion into other products, this repository includes a simplified API for text to image generation, which lets you create images from a prompt in just three lines of code:

from ldm.simplet2i import T2I
model   = T2I()
outputs = model.txt2img("a unicorn in manhattan")

Outputs is a list of lists in the format [[filename1,seed1],[filename2,seed2]...] Please see ldm/simplet2i.py for more information.

Workaround for machines with limited internet connectivity

My development machine is a GPU node in a high-performance compute cluster which has no connection to the internet. During model initialization, stable-diffusion tries to download the Bert tokenizer and a file needed by the kornia library. This obviously didn't work for me.

To work around this, I have modified ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py to look for locally cached Bert files rather than attempting to download them. For this to work, you must run "scripts/preload_models.py" once from an internet-connected machine prior to running the code on an isolated one. This assumes that both machines share a common network-mounted filesystem with a common .cache directory.

(ldm) ~/stable-diffusion$ python3 ./scripts/preload_models.py
preloading bert tokenizer...
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 28.0/28.0 [00:00<00:00, 49.3kB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 226k/226k [00:00<00:00, 2.79MB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 455k/455k [00:00<00:00, 4.36MB/s]
Downloading: 100%|██████████████████████████████████| 570/570 [00:00<00:00, 477kB/s]
...success
preloading kornia requirements...
Downloading: "https://github.com/DagnyT/hardnet/raw/master/pretrained/train_liberty_with_aug/checkpoint_liberty_with_aug.pth" to /u/lstein/.cache/torch/hub/checkpoints/checkpoint_liberty_with_aug.pth
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████| 5.10M/5.10M [00:00<00:00, 101MB/s]
...success

If you don't need this change and want to download the files just in time, copy over the file ldm/modules/encoders/modules.py from the CompVis/stable-diffusion repository. Or you can run preload_models.py on the target machine.

Support

For support, please use this repository's GitHub Issues tracking service. Feel free to send me an email if you use and like the script.

Original Author: Lincoln D. Stein lincoln.stein@gmail.com

Contributions by: Peter Kowalczyk, Henry Harrison, xraxra, and bmaltais