S_PixelArt

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S_PixelArt by Arcayer - Produced via hand pseudo-training. IE, automatically produce large numbers of variants, generate images, choose the images I like and use that as the seed for the next generation, repeat.

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This is an embedding merge of the line: Produced via hand pseudo-training. IE, automatically produce large numbers of variants, generate images, choose the images I like and use that as the seed for the next generation, repeat. It combines a number of concepts related to images being produced via lots of semi-large spots, to hopefully produce images that look good when downscaled. Also designed with an eye towards posterizing (limiting the pallet to say, 16 colors) A note on Gimp: when downscaling, don't use LoHalo, or anything, just use None. If you want to pixelize ahead of time, it's often a good idea to go with circle instead of square, then remove the alpha later using standard transfer alpha to layer mask, delete layer mask. A light unsharp mask can somtimes help after you've downscaled.

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S_PixelArt

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S_PixelArt Popularity Trend

Heat score, last 12 months

Heat score

7,384°

This week

n/a

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This month

n/a

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Past year

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7,000°

Floor

The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.

+789°

Civitai downloads

426 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.

+204°

Likes

22 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.

−609°

Age

−609° because the SD15 weights came out in 2022. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.

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Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 7,384°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.

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Start at the floor.
Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.
7,000°
running total
2
Add the downloads.
426 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.
+789°
7,789°
running total
3
Add the likes.
22 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.
+204°
7,993°
running total
4
Take off the age.
The SD15 weights came out in 2022: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.
−609°
7,384°
running total
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The heat score.
Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.
7,384°

Glossary: the terms used here

Heat score: One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
Floor: The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
Download-equivalents: Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
Log scale: Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
Likes: Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
Adoption rate: How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
Measured and estimated: Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
Seeder: Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
AI Horde: A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
Generation sites: Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
OpenRouter tokens: A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
Full model (checkpoint): The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
LoRA and embedding: Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
Family and weights: The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
Age: Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
Family boost: A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
Stand-in score: A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
New! (grace period): A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
Trend: How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
Typical model: The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.

How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.

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still_life, single_object, (vintage_gramophone_sculpture:1.3), made out of sprinkles, p1nkspr1nkles, AtompunkSDXL, S_PixelArt, fantasy, retro futurism, pulp fiction, pulp futurist, 1950s, Traditional, colorful_rainbow_sprinkles, (chiaroscuro:1.4), tenebrism, (caravaggio_style:1.2), dramatic_lighting, deep_shadows, (albrecht_durer_style:1.1), intricate_etching_lines, (tim_burton_style:1.2), whimsical_macabre, intricate_details, sharp_focus, simple_background, masterpiece, best_quality, ultra_detailed, highres, absurdres:1.2, pastel_colors

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bad_prompt++, bad tail, long neck, nipple, bust, exposed breasts, nsfw, clutter, signature, logo, gibberish, bad text, ImgFixerPre0.3++, bad quality, bad anatomy, worst quality, low quality, low resolution, extra fingers, blur, blurry, distorted, ugly, wrong proportions, watermark, image artifacts, badneg-xl++, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed, noisy image, deformation, corrupt image, cropped body parts, deformed hands, deformed legs, deformed body, FastNegative++, cropped out, cropped, cropping, male genitals, big head, oversized head, distorted, wrong proportions, deformed feet, deformed arms, photo, greyscale. solid black. painting

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still_life, single_object, (vintage_bellows_camera_sculpture:1.3), made out of sprinkles, p1nkspr1nkles, AtompunkSDXL, S_PixelArt, fantasy, retro futurism, pulp fiction, pulp futurist, 1950s, Traditional, (ukiyo-e:1.4), woodblock_print, bold_outlines, flat_colors, (utagawa_kuniyoshi:1.1), (takashi_murakami_style:1.3), superflat, vibrant_colors, (hokusai_composition:1.2), simple_background, masterpiece, best_quality, ultra_detailed, highres, absurdres:1.2

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landscape, (whimsical patchwork garden:1.2), ptchkrawk quilted hills, cs-qu1lt-1 fabric forest, S_PixelArt 16-bit grid patterns, xlmrblng36-500 marbled clouds, Hayao Miyazaki lush nature visualization, Wes Anderson clinical symmetrical composition, bright pastel colors, cozy feeling, intricate stitching details, soft diffused daylight, magical realism, high definition, masterpiece

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bad_prompt++, bad tail, long neck, nipple, bust, exposed breasts, nsfw, clutter, signature, logo, gibberish, bad text, ImgFixerPre0.3++, bad quality, bad anatomy, worst quality, low quality, low resolution, extra fingers, blur, blurry, distorted, ugly, wrong proportions, watermark, image artifacts, badneg-xl++, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed, noisy image, deformation, corrupt image, cropped body parts, deformed hands, deformed legs, deformed body, FastNegativeV2++, cropped out, cropped, cropping, male genitals, big head, oversized head, distorted, wrong proportions, deformed feet, deformed arms, photo, greyscale. solid black. painting

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bad_prompt++, bad tail, long neck, nipple, bust, exposed breasts, nsfw, clutter, signature, logo, gibberish, bad text, ImgFixerPre0.3++, bad quality, bad anatomy, worst quality, low quality, low resolution, extra fingers, blur, blurry, distorted, ugly, wrong proportions, watermark, image artifacts, badneg-xl++, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed, noisy image, deformation, corrupt image, cropped body parts, deformed hands, deformed legs, deformed body, FastNegativeV2++, cropped out, cropped, cropping, male genitals, big head, oversized head, distorted, wrong proportions, deformed feet, deformed arms, photo, greyscale. solid black. painting

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bad_prompt++, bad tail, long neck, nipple, bust, exposed breasts, nsfw, clutter, signature, logo, gibberish, bad text, ImgFixerPre0.3++, bad quality, bad anatomy, worst quality, low quality, low resolution, extra fingers, blur, blurry, distorted, ugly, wrong proportions, watermark, image artifacts, badneg-xl++, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed, noisy image, deformation, corrupt image, cropped body parts, deformed hands, deformed legs, deformed body, FastNegativeV2++, cropped out, cropped, cropping, male genitals, big head, oversized head, distorted, wrong proportions, deformed feet, deformed arms, photo, greyscale. solid black. painting

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still_life, single_object, (astronomical_astrolabe_sculpture:1.3), made out of sprinkles, p1nkspr1nkles, AtompunkSDXL, S_PixelArt, fantasy, retro futurism, pulp fiction, pulp futurist, 1950s, Traditional, (rococo:1.3), ornate_gilded_scrollwork, (wes_anderson_style:1.3), symmetrical_composition, pastel_color_palette, (studio_ghibli_aesthetic:1.1), soft_painterly_textures, simple_background, masterpiece, best_quality, ultra_detailed, highres, absurdres:1.2

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still life, (melting patchwork violin:1.2) draped over a wooden chair, ptchkrawk leaking vibrant stuffing, cs-qu1lt-1 quilted leather, S_PixelArt dithered stippling, xlmrblng36-500 fluid marbled palette, Salvador Dalí surrealist dream logic, Tim Burton gothic whimsical lighting, eerie but cozy atmosphere, rich textures, high contrast, vibrant saturated colors, opaque gray backdrop, sharp edges, masterpiece

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bad_prompt++, bad tail, long neck, nipple, bust, exposed breasts, nsfw, clutter, signature, logo, gibberish, bad text, ImgFixerPre0.3++, bad quality, bad anatomy, worst quality, low quality, low resolution, extra fingers, blur, blurry, distorted, ugly, wrong proportions, watermark, image artifacts, badneg-xl++, lowres, jpeg artifacts, deformed, noisy image, deformation, corrupt image, cropped body parts, deformed hands, deformed legs, deformed body, FastNegativeV2++, cropped out, cropped, cropping, male genitals, big head, oversized head, distorted, wrong proportions, deformed feet, deformed arms, photo, greyscale. solid black. painting

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