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I have a Samsung Frame TV in my bedroom that doubles as a digital art frame when not in use. Unlike standard HDTVs, The Frame features a matte screen that reduces glare and reflections, making it perfect for displaying artwork. Its light sensor automatically adjusts screen brightness based on ambient light conditions.

To create a constantly evolving art display, I repurposed an old laptop with an RTX 2070. Every day, it spins up for 15-20 minutes to generate completely new imagery using a sophisticated pipeline: a 7B parameter LLM creates prompts that feed into SDXL and Flux.1 Dev image models. The generated art passes through moderation filters, gets upscaled to 4K resolution, undergoes img2img processing, and finally streams to the Samsung Frame via a Python WebSocket API.

While the system works remarkably well, I've occasionally woken up to some rather startling imagery. The website mirrors the same set of images that get generated and displayed on my Frame TV, offering a window into this daily digital art experiment.

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About Art Mode

The Samsung Frame's Art Mode transforms the TV into a digital canvas when not in use. The matte display minimizes reflections while the ambient light sensor ensures the artwork looks natural in any lighting condition giving the illusion of a real framed piece of art.

The issue is that Samsung constantly tries to upsell you on their paid art subscription service, and frankly, the idea of paying a monthly fee to effectively rent a digital copy of Van Gogh's The Starry Night on my own TV seems patently absurd. With this project, I'm able to enjoy a unique, ever-changing living art installation.