hopper-gen

Fine-tune SDXL with LoRA to generate paintings in Edward Hopper's style — dramatic lighting, isolation, geometric composition, muted palettes.

Quick Start

Frontend

cd frontend
bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run dev

Image generation scratch scripts

uv sync --project scripts
uv run --project scripts python scripts/collect_images.py        # Download Hopper paintings
uv run --project scripts python scripts/prepare_data.py          # Resize + caption
uv run --project scripts modal run scripts/train.py              # LoRA training on Modal GPU
uv run --project scripts modal run scripts/generate.py           # Generate with trained LoRA

Stack

• Base model: stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
• Training: LoRA via HuggingFace diffusers + peft
• Compute: Modal (A10G GPU)
• Budget: ~$1-2 total
• Frontend: Next.js app in frontend/