Fractal cameos - 10 fascinating detail-rich screen art pieces, FoldPix Set 4 - Google Pixel Fold edition

The Fractal cameos set of screen art pieces is a part of the FoldPix series of digital art products by Encore Art AI. Images in this set are the result of my creative effort, using AI-imaging tools of the Stable Diffusion technology, in exploring the theme of technological impact on progress of humanity, with a hint of dystopian undercurrent in a number of these artworks. The artistic content of the set draws on my longtime fascination with making fractal images, something that I have been busy with since the mid 1990s: a few of those images served as the structural basis for these new creations.

• Foldable phone usage

Digital art Images in this set edition are prepared in a painstaking, pixel-precise fashion for viewing on the inner screen of the Google Pixel Fold phone, The images are not intended to be used as a screen wallpaper (although you could use them that way if you like), they are to be actively enjoyed as art pieces, used as invitations to an endless visual discovery. Such is the unique richness of detail in FoldPix creations that, each time you zoom somewhere in an image, you may discover something new, glimpse a nuance not seen before. The condensed perfection of these creations ensures that this magic works all the way up to 3x onscreen magnification!  

• About the FoldPix series

Screen art sets in the FoldPix series feature images of the 5:6 aspect ratio designed for viewing on the inner screen of a foldable phone from a number of manufacturers such as Google and Samsung. Master images in the series are of high resolution (4K and up), each featuring a unique visual idea and exquisitely rich detail. Creating these images involved both cutting edge AI technology and laborious manual editing (also known as inpainting). In the course of preparing this digital product, each image in the set has been individually curated for the ultimate quality of the composition and fine detail not found normally in a typical AI-generated production. 

• The tools used

The main tools used were Krita, an advanced digital art creation and image editing software, and its Krita AI Diffusion Hires extension.  

• Image format and preview options

Images in the set are of the 1840x2208 resolution, served in a highest quality JPEG format. Some of them are available for previewing in the Encore Art AI portfolio feed.

In the creation of the images in the Fractal cameos set, an older 'fractal’ picture was used to serve as the structural basis for each of the artworks. Those fractals had been originally generated in September 2023 with Prompt Hunt, a lesser-known AI image generator platform, using the platform’s PhChroma 3 model. They were all of relatively poor quality and limited size, but for me, they always retained that inspirational potential to be transformed into some new, more appealing artworks one day.

Which actually happened a year or so later, when I got a fresh idea about what can be done with those images. In the course of making this set in December 2024, the fractal images were processed in Leonardo.ai and Forge WebUI in the img2img mode using various Stable Diffusion models to produce intermediate versions having radically new graphic content. Those intermediate versions were then brought to Krita AI Diffusion for inpainting and composition work done by blending various selected fragments into a coherent whole. To add an extra detail, the resulting images were then upscaled and refined with Leonardo’s Universal Upscaler and Forge (again), before being included in the future Fractal Cameos set. In September 2025, a number of artworks of the set were further enhanced using Krita AI Hires, to elevate them to the HyperPixel format.