Announcing Ultraforge, the Filter Forge successor

Hi everyone! After 8 years of development, we're happy to announce the long-awaited Filter Forge successor, codenamed Ultraforge -- a powerful node-based environment for image generation and processing:

- GPU support for significant speed improvement.
- Node-based programming: nodes for bitmaps, numbers, strings, lists, and more.
- Generative AI: create images from text using Stable Diffusion AI.
- Image-to-Image AI: create images from other images using AI -- effects on steroids!
- Space monkeys! (Did we mention the text-to-image AI node?)

Interested? Learn more and join the beta waitlist!
https://filterforge.com/ultraforge/

This seriously looks like everything I've ever wanted FF to be and more! Any idea of how much this will cost once it's out?

This looks a lot like Max MSP / Pure Data, but for images... plus the addition of AI tools, which is super exciting! I can't wait to try it out, personally.

I was also going to ask about GLSL scripting but I see now that it's on the roadmap . This is going to be some groovy software

This is SO getting cancelled.

Would be nice to have, though.

Looks amazing, can't wait to try it out. Email submitted

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emme wrote: I'm assuming Stable Diffusion will be ran locally?

Yes, Stable Diffusion will be hosted locally.

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emme wrote: How does the tile based memory management work inside Stable Diffusion btw?

It won't Stable Diffusion will output an entire bitmap. Thankfully, the image sizes in Stable Diffusion are usually not very large. Upscaling, however, is another story. I hope that we will be able to run at least some upscaling algorithms in a tile-based way -- but I wouldn't count on that.

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emme wrote: Any plans to add AI upscaling?

Absolutely.

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emme wrote: image-to-text node for procedural string generation

Haha, we toyed with the idea. Our type system and execution engile would allow that, but this is definitely not on the list of priority features at the moment. I still have no idea which model would be suitable for that.

Very interesting, I'm looking forward to this new version.

I have never been much interested in AI image processing until now. also think about adding video manipulation with this software, that would be great! I hope to be chosen for the beta, if you can convince skeptical people like me you have a HIT and a gold mine in hand!

I think that from my point of view I recommend and suggest that this thread becomes a sticky at the top so people wil see it first and will be able to read the whole newly created web page www.filterforge.com/ultraforge/ that explains what Ultraforge is about and so it may avoid asking things that may be already covered there