First in a long series of tutorials about MidJourney.
Chaos, Stylize and Style are three ways to add a layer of variety and stylization on top your prompt and reference images.
–chaos N
Influence variety making interesting surprises. Works in the initial imagine command. The higher the value, more dramatic variations generate. Try –chaos N or –c N at the end of prompt command. Deafault value is 0. values can be 0 – 100.
— chaos works differently in v4. In v1-3 and test/tesp is mostly about adding surprise deviations from the parent. In v4 it’s more about adding surprise variations from the other variations in the grid. It help to have different surprising styles in each square, as if you’ve asked more than one artist to give your prompt a try.
–stylize N
Influences beauty. Only works during initial imagine. The higher the value of –stylize N (from 0 – 1000 for v4 and 625 – 20000 for v3) the more Midjourney’s own style is present in the first grid, including some chaotic variety to the composition, ornamental additions and even some minor effects. Be aware that –stylize N may not appear to work the same way with al lversions and styles. Sytlize will not influence the outcome when used with image references.
–style
Allows to go back in time thru earlier releases of –v 4. The system default is the most current release, por example –style 4c. Using this feature you can roll back to –v 4 –style 4a and –v 4 –style 4b. These styles also have other benefits:
–style 4a gives more power and influence to your own prompt styles but you can lose coherency without careful prompting. Accepts only 2:3 and 3:2 ratios.
–style 4b gives less power and influence to your own prompted styles but it’s more beginner friendly and images maintain coherency (also only accepts 2:3 and 3:2 ratios).
–style 4c is the same as 4b but has more aspect ratios.
For now –style only works with –v 4 (the system default version).
And now, samples!
CHAOS
As you can see, –chaos 9 maintains the model. MidJourney produces a face as a basic model. Let’s see how –chaos affects:
It’s clear the change, isn’t? MidJourney is very creative when chaos rises! The archetype explodes…
What about a particular scene or object? For example, a car?
Seems like there is not great difference, but take a look at second grid. A horse in the 3rd image? What kind of tires are in the 4th?
Ok, lets go with –stylize
STYLIZE
With greater values of –stylize MidJouner adds more and more variations and details, some of them can be bizarre sometimes!
STYLE
In this case let’s use the same –seed value to see the changes applied by this parameter.
4c is the same as not using –style at all, it’s de default style for now.
The 4a style is very different as you can see. 4b and 4c is very similar in results and more realistic.
Using chaos, stylize and style may generate a lot of variations added to your own prompt. Re-rolling images will be needed to acomplish the desired result but now you know how to produce interesting variations with the same description.
The –seed parameter permits to use the same randomness to several grid generations and see what happens modifiying any of the parameters explained.
The featured image uses the MidJourney basic archetype. Here you have the prompt for reference:
Chaos, style and stylize –v 4 –q 2
