Visuai

Visuai started while I was deep in a stack of recent fiction — the Dune series, The Way of Kings, Eragon — and noticing how much work the authors put into describing what things actually look like.

The problem was on my end. My brain couldn't keep up with the level of visual detail packed into the environments, characters, and scenes. I'd end up on Google, hunting for fan renditions of a character to anchor my imagination, instead of leaning on what the author had already written.

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

So I built Visuai to bring these books to life — to generate lore-accurate images of the characters and environments as you read.

Ideally this lives inside Kindle or iBooks as an extension, generating visuals automatically or from highlighted passages. Until Amazon or Apple opens up an extensions marketplace, Visuai runs as a self-serve platform.

Planned improvements

Character Glossary: a per-book index of characters, with images and descriptions.
ControlNets for better image generation.