This project takes the text of a story and tries to use generative AI to build a graphic novel experience of it.

Next steps:

1. ✅ Add some styling to the pages
2. ✅ Allow generating a story in another location
3. ✅ Get dependencies under control (use a virtual environment)
4. Clean up the code

Before you begin, make a new empty directory somewhere for your project. Place the raw text of story in your project folder as text.txt

1. In the graphic-novelator directory, start a virtual environment: python3 -m venv .env
2. Activate your virtual environment: source .env/bin/activate (deactivate to deactivate it)
3. Install the dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. TITLE="Your Title" AUTHOR="Author" STORY_DIR="../my-story" python3 app/start.py will start generating scene descriptions, images, and html pages for the whole story, with one image per 100 word chunk of text
5. TITLE="Your Title" AUTHOR="Author" STORY_DIR="../my-story" python3 app/start.py 17 will regenerate the scene description and image for the 17th chunk

1. Python
2. A CUDA-enabled GPU (or a lot of patience)
3. Access to the Llama 3 8b Instruct model via HuggingFace (it's a "gated model" so you must request access) or the willingness to switch the text-to-text model.
4. A text file of your story (if you want to generate a new one)

• H.P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space"
• H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival"

A lone explorer stands at the edge of a frozen lake, the aurora borealis dancing across the dark sky behind him, as the icy landscape stretches out to the horizon, with the faint outline of a ship in the distance.

Not sure why he's drifting on an iceberg but its a start 😛