re: secret sauce, I tend to be in the 'sharing is caring' camp. The code for this was based on the popular notebook by @RiversHaveWings (VQGAN+CLIP) although I've edited it back and forth a few times. I usually run for a few hundred iterations (eg 250). EDIT: here's a Google Colab that replicates my plant generation: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1b1UfblpdhPJ7f1WRjfC...