Art, AI & Printing Glossary

Diffusion Model

A diffusion model is an AI image generator that works by progressively removing noise from a random starting image until a coherent picture emerges.

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Generative AI

Generative AI refers to machine-learning systems that create new content — images, text, audio — rather than only analyzing existing data.

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Image-to-Image (img2img)

Image-to-image generation uses an existing image as a starting point for a new AI generation, preserving structure or composition while changing style or details.

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Latent Space

Latent space is the compressed mathematical representation where a diffusion model does its work before decoding back into a final image.

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Negative Prompt

A negative prompt tells an AI model what to avoid or exclude from the generated image, refining outputs by subtraction.

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Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering is the practice of writing text inputs that steer an AI model toward the specific outputs you want.

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Seed Number

A seed number is an integer that determines the initial random noise pattern for AI image generation, enabling reproducible outputs from the same prompt.

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Style Transfer

Style transfer is a technique that applies the visual style of one image (like a painting) to the content of another (like a photograph).

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