Overmasking Questions about openoutpaint HOT 1 CLOSED

I'm kinda confused on its implementation.

lmao that makes at least two of us :D the implementation was and continues to be "i don't know how to make it but i think i know what i want so i'm going to just keep trying things until one gets close"

so the initial intent was based off of these two reddit posts and associated discord post:

and there's a greater-than-random chance that i've still completely done it wrong lol

essentially, it "seemed" like manually masking over a seam before outpainting really did do nice things for camouflaging the seams and i figured "well shucks, that should be able to be done in the background automagically" and received a hefty lesson in hubris :) my first attempt was indeed to simply expand the white region x pixels in all cardinal directions, which really just... visibly moved the seam x pixels in the appropriate cardinal direction. i tried changing that to a small gradient based on 255/overmaskpx, which just made a MORE visible mask with an obvious gradient. tried changing the gradient falloff to a more linear one, don't quite remember the exact math, it was literally just throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks lol, but it didn't work either. i tried randomly stippling individual pixels and that was by FAR the worst result yet, i got nothing but windowpaned unrelated images with noisy borders in practically EVERY outpaint.

i tried most recently to simply find the equivalent paths of the white regions and draw a simple "paint mask" style line over it, but i was too stupid to get that to work right, but discovered that if i just threw an x px circle over each pixel of the overpaint seams, it effectively does exactly that, and the "humanization" just came in as a further attempt to kinda hide the seams.

it could be all placebo but i SWEAR it actually kinda works pretty well now :)

i will readily admit to just using inefficient loops where something like maybe a map reduce would probably be infinitely superior but i also don't exactly know how to map reduce and pretty much just google for a remedial solution to whatever problem i'm facing at the moment and push the one that works which is probably untenable in the long run lol

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