---
title: ShellD Text-to-Image
emoji: 🐚
colorFrom: green
colorTo: pink
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.20.0
app_file: app.py
short_description: ShellD — lightweight DiT text-to-image (256×256)
python_version: "3.12"
startup_duration_timeout: 30m
---

# ShellD — Shell Diffusion Text-to-Image

A demo for [FlameF0X/ShellD](https://huggingface.co/FlameF0X/ShellD), a lightweight 67M-parameter Diffusion Transformer (DiT) that generates 256×256 images from natural language prompts. Uses a frozen MiniLM-L6-v2 text encoder and a custom VAE + DiT backbone with a 1000-step DDPM sampler.