nodes get batch from history

Get Batch from History

This experimental node does something really simple, it reads the outputs from the history endpoint of Comfy. Outputs gets populated by... output nodes. There are various ones but for instance in core comfy, Save Image and Preview Image are output nodes. I advice to start simple and have workflows that only generates one output per queue run. Of course once you master it you can use multiple outputs as output order is kept (as long as all outputs are ran).

Another basic use case of batch from history that you can see in the 4th example, the fake deforum effect, basically this flow allows you to feedback an image using the history.

A classic example when showing the feedback concept is the poor man's grey scott diffusion model i.e the "creative" derivative using only a gaussian blur and a sharp at each fed steps.

Here is an example workflow of just that.

this is the output:

and the workflow:

expand here to copy paste this workflow

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The blue bordered node is the one doing the feedback, on first frame (frame == 0 converted to bool is false) the passthrough image will be used, this example uses the Batch Shape node, only on the first queue item, then the previous queue item is fed to each subsequent queue item. The orange bordered one is fetching all the frames we queued once done to assemble the GIF. All this happens in "one click" thanks to Animation Builder

Inputs

name	description
passthrough_image	This is the image that gets sent out when enable is set to false, useful for the init first image in the fake deforum example for instance (04-animation_builder-deforum.json)
enable	This makes the node not fetch the history. For instance when you just initiated the server the history is empty, see Animation Builder for practical examples
count	the number of frames to fetch from the history
Reset Button	resets the internal counters, although the node is though around using its queue button it should still work fine when using the regular queue button of comfy
Queue Button	Convenience button to run the queues (total_frames * loop_count)