Bilta Gilata1

Turn a sentence into palette-locked pixel art—locally on your Mac.

Bilta Gilata1 is a free Apple-Silicon pixel-art CLI with 65 Aseprite palettes, reference-image guidance, deterministic seeds, and exact 16–256 px output. No API key, credits, or uploaded prompts.

Why use it?

Actually local: generation runs on Apple Silicon.
Exact palettes: output is quantized to one of 65 Aseprite palettes.
PICO-8 ready: includes the official 16-color palette option.
Reference images: guide composition and character appearance from a local file.
Reproducible: reuse --seed to regenerate a composition.
Game-sized: export at 16, 32, 48, 64, 128, or 256 pixels.

Install

git clone https://huggingface.co/hyperpixel123/bilta-gilata1
cd bilta-gilata1
chmod +x install.sh bilta_gilata1.py
./install.sh

Generate

.venv/bin/python bilta_gilata1.py "a tiny moon wizard" --palette pico-8 --size 128 --output wizard.png

Reference-guided generation:

.venv/bin/python bilta_gilata1.py "a forest adventurer" \
  --reference portrait.jpg --palette db16 --size 64 --output adventurer.png

Browse palettes:

.venv/bin/python bilta_gilata1.py --list-palettes

Requirements

Apple Silicon Mac
Python 3.10+
About 5 GB free for the first model download
Internet required only for the initial download

Gallery

Sprite	Animation study	Palette output

Responsible distribution

This repository distributes the Bilta runtime and palette post-processor, not third-party model weights. Review THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, including the upstream non-commercial checkpoint terms, before commercial use or redistribution.

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