Jeff Chunn

Noise Crank

Turn the handle and watch a shape emerge from noise.

Turn noise into something.

Wind the handle. See what takes shape.

A miniature diffusion model
Starting noiseSeed 7
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It starts with noise.

Each turn uses learned shape patterns to make a denoising step.

What's happening here?

This is a working diffusion sampler on a 24 by 24 pixel grid. Sixteen example silhouettes per shape define its data distribution. A mathematical denoiser estimates a clean shape at each noise level, and a deterministic sampling step advances the image.

There is no neural network or text model here. The tiny model can only produce variations from its example set. Large diffusion models learn a much richer distribution. Turning backward replays saved steps. Explore a full image diffusion model.