E-DALL-E: Creating Digital Art with Varying Aspect Ratios

How to expand images generated with DALL-E Mini by using VQGAN and CLIP to inpaint the sides

Images from DALL-E Mini (left), Expanded to 16:9 with Repeated Edge Pixels (center), and E-DALL-E (right), Images by Author

You may have seen some images generated from text using DALL-E 2 [1] from OpenAI. Although the system is impressive and the results are incredible, it’s currently only available in a closed beta with a waitlist…