LootBox

A .NET web api that generates loot using generated imagery.

Development

• Clone the repository
• Open in Visual Studio
• Set startup project to LootBox.Api
• Run the project

Concepts

The following concepts are meant to be illustrated in this project.

Fluent Bootstrapping

LootBox.Api/Program.cs contains an example of fluent bootstrapping, using the LootBox.Api/Extensions/BootstrapExtensions.cs extension methods to encapsulate bootstrap behavior.

Clean Architecture

LootBox.Domain has no dependencies, and purely contains models for the application.

LootBox.Logic is only dependent on LootBox.Domain, and works with the models contained in LootBox.Domain to generate meaningful data.

LootBox.Api is the application layer, and dependent on both LootBox.Logic and LootBox.Domain.

Dependencies are only one-way, which mitigates potential circular references, and forces the developer to write code in the proper layer.

Extensible Abstractions

There are a collection of interfaces for image generation, along with an implementation for each of them.

Text Prompt to Image Generation

The ITextToImageGenerator interface contains abstractions useful for creating images from text prompts.

The DiffusionImageGenerator is an implementation of ITextToImageGenerator that uses a diffusion process (de-noising a random noise image) to create images.

Image Encoding

The IImageGenerator interface contains abstractions useful for generating images from byte arrays.

The PngGenerator is an implementation of IImageGenerator that will encode a byte array containing RGB data (pixels) to the PNG format.

Roadmap

• Scaffold basic loot generation at the /loot endpoint
• Scaffold abstractions for text-to-image generation and image generation
• Scaffold implementations of text-to-image and image generation abstractions
• Scaffold system for persisting generated loot, more than likely using caching or POST body
• Scaffold system for applying modifiers to persisted generated loot