Your Portal to AI Artistry, Forged for Intel ARC GPUs 🎨

ArtTic-LAB is a modern, clean, and powerful AI image generation suite, meticulously crafted for the Intel® Arc™ hardware ecosystem. It provides a beautiful custom user interface as the primary experience, with a robust Gradio UI available as a powerful alternative.

This is more than a simple wrapper; it's a ground-up application focused on performance, aesthetics, and a frictionless user experience. With full support for models from Stable Diffusion 1.5 to the next-gen SD3, ArtTic-LAB is the definitive creative tool for ARC users. ✨

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Three Ways to Create

ArtTic-LAB adapts to your preferred workflow, offering an interface for every kind of creator.

The Custom UI 🎨	The Gradio UI 📊	The CLI 💻
Our default, polished, and modern experience.	A powerful, data-science-friendly alternative.	Clean, professional, and ideal for scripting.

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Feature Deep Dive 🔬

We've packed ArtTic-LAB with features designed to maximize performance and streamline your creative process.

Feature Group	Description
Engineered for Speed 🏎️	IPEX Optimization: We use Intel® Extension for PyTorch (IPEX) to JIT-compile and rewrite model components like the UNet and VAE, specifically optimizing them for the XPU architecture on your ARC GPU. Mixed-Precision: All generations run in bfloat16 for a ~2x speedup and ~50% VRAM savings with minimal quality loss.
Intelligent Pipeline 🧠	Automatic Detection: No more guesswork. ArtTic-LAB peeks inside your .safetensors files to automatically identify the model architecture (SD1.5, SD2.x, SDXL, or SD3) and load the correct pipeline every time. Universal Support: A unified backend ensures a consistent and stable experience across all supported model types.
Total VRAM Control 💧	VAE Tiling & Slicing: Generate high-resolution images without out-of-memory errors by processing the VAE in smaller chunks. CPU Offloading: A lifesaver for GPUs with less VRAM. Keep the model in system RAM and only move necessary parts to the GPU during inference. One-Click Unload: Instantly free up your VRAM by fully unloading the current model without restarting the app.
Streamlined for Artists ✨	Dual UIs: Choose between our beautiful custom interface or the data-rich Gradio UI to suit your style. Integrated Gallery: Your creations are automatically saved to a beautiful, built-in gallery where you can browse, admire, and download your work. Full Parameter Control: Effortlessly adjust prompts, dimensions, steps, CFG scale, seed, samplers, and more with intuitive controls and helpful presets.

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Creations Gallery 📸

Here are a few examples generated entirely with ArtTic-LAB.

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🚀 Get Started in Minutes

Launch your personal AI art studio with three simple steps.

1️⃣ Prerequisites

• Ensure you have Miniconda installed. If not, download it from the official website.
• After installation, close and reopen your terminal to ensure conda is available.

2️⃣ Installation

Download and unzip this project. Then, run the one-time installer for your operating system.

• On Windows 🪟: Double-click install.bat.
• On Linux/macOS 🐧: Open a terminal in the project folder and run bash install.sh.

3️⃣ Launch & Create!

Run the launcher script to start the server.

• On Windows 🪟: Double-click start.bat.
• On Linux/macOS 🐧: Run bash start.sh.

The terminal will provide a local URL (e.g., http://127.0.0.1:7860). Open it in your browser and let your creativity flow!

👉 Optional Launch Arguments

• Use the Classic UI: To use the Gradio interface, launch with the --ui gradio flag.
  • Windows: start.bat --ui gradio
  • Linux/macOS: bash start.sh --ui gradio
• Enable Full Logs: For debugging, launch with the --disable-filters flag to see all library logs.

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📂 Project Structure

ArtTic-LAB/
├── 📁assets/          # Banners, demos, UI screenshots
├── 📁core/            # ✅ Core application logic (UI-agnostic)
├── 📁helpers/         # Helper scripts (CLI manager)
├── 📁models/          # 🧠 Drop your .safetensors models here
├── 📁outputs/         # 🏞️ Your generated masterpieces
├── 📁pipelines/       # ⚙️ Core logic for all SD model types
├── 📁web/             # ✅ All files for the custom FastAPI UI
├── 📜app.py           # 🚀 The main application launcher
├── 📜ui.py            # Gradio UI layout code
├── 📜install.bat      # 🪟 One-click installer for Windows
├── 📜start.bat        # ▶️ The "Go" button for Windows
└── 📜...              # (and other project files)

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🤝 Contributing & Feedback

Found a bug or have a feature idea? We'd love to hear from you! Please feel free to open an issue on the project's repository.

📜 License

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.