Dall-E-2 & Imagen; A premonition for Designers and Illustrators

Izaan Zubair — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:27:50 +0000

There's no doubt that the future will be dominated by technology, principally by the advancements in Artificial Intelligence. The automated applications of AI have long been perceived as a threat by "Luddite", whereas a technophile enjoys such advancements and adapts to the new changes.

The recent news by OpenAi has stunned the aspiring artists, Illustrators, and the industry in general by announcing a very advanced text-to-image model called Dall-E-2. Google, following up with Dall-E, also announced a similar application, which is called Imagen. Both of these models are capable of producing realistic and uncanny images just by inputting a single command or sentence.

As advanced and realistic as the model is, it is still not possible to fine-tune the generated images accordingly to your requirements. The model is still in its early phases and there's a lot of work and research to be done. Given the advantage, designers or illustrators can use this model to generate an image, use it as an inspiration and then prepare the final product.

It is also vital here to understand and upskill yourself as the time passes because the future is evidently for those who work alongside the technological advancements.

The attached pictures are some of the sample images generated by Google's Imagen model.

Generate random bytes of size n in Python 3.9

Izaan Zubair — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 19:26:33 +0000

Generating random bytes was somewhat complicated in Python before the new version 3.9 finally introduced the randbytes() function.

Prior, we could rely on functions such as os.getrandom(), os.urandom() or secrets.token_bytes() but couldn't generate pseudo-random patterns.

Python version 3.9 introduced the new function, randbytes(n) which returns bytes of size "n". Let's take a look at how the function works!

In order to use the function, we have to import it from the random module.

Let's try generating pseudo-random bytes of size 2:

from random import randbytes

random_bytes = randombytes(2)

random_bytes

>>> b'\xf29' # Output

For the inexperienced, it may look like that the returned object is of type/class str, but it isn't.

type(random_bytes)

>>> <class 'bytes'>

The randbytes() shouldn't be used as a substitute for generating secret tokens as Python's official documentation advises against it

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Dall-E-2 & Imagen; A premonition for Designers and Illustrators

Generate random bytes of size n in Python 3.9