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MORE AI ART
But NOT Artbreeder this time! Thanks to Metafilter, I ran across this article on AI-generated art that had links to several Google Colab notebooks I could run to generate art.
What is a Google Colab? Uh, hell if I know, even though I was using one to do all the AI-generated text a couple of years back. But you can set it up to run programs and use computer power elsewhere for it, and people have kindly set them up with software that runs the AI-generated art. I shall not explain how they work otherwise because it would mostly be "Click this, this, and this, then type here, then click there."
You type in prompts, and it does its best to produce something using hat it thinks the prompts say. It is not a human, so quite often it has nothing to do with reality. There are a few tricks you can use to pull better stuff out of it, and since it was trained on internet data two of those tricks are to add "artstation" (or "trending on artstation") and "unreal engine" to your prompt.
"grimdark fairy unreal engine"
"eldritch sword unreal engine"
"grimdark fantasy book cover by joe abercrombie unreal engine"
I love how it realized that a book cover would have text on it and tried to put Joe Abercrombie's name in there.
And then it was time to go do other stuff. I came back a few hours later, and produced two of the MOST FANTABULOUS THINGS EVER by dropping![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yhlee's name and title into it, and adding "artstation".
"book cover of ninefox gambit by yoon ha lee | artstation | unreal engine"
This is the first picture it came up with, which looks like a flat abstract painting with Asian--Chinese or Korean--influences, and a swash of orange color for the fox.
AND THEN IT JUST GOT BETTER.
Since it obviously hadn't read Yoon's book and didn't know that it was science fiction, I decided to let it know, and added a couple of keywords.
"book cover of ninefox gambit military science fiction by yoon ha lee | artstation | unreal engine"
Again, the first one, looking like a flat painting that someone is doing for concept design, and not really depicting anythign in particular except for "science fiction-y".
And then shapes get more defined.
And then it got confused as to whether I wanted this to be the cover of a book, or if I wanted a lot of books, and it started turning into a science fictional library, with, I think, Jedao as the librarian, sitting behind a desk with someone standing in front of it and leaning over at him.
But just in case I wanted the cover of a book, it started putting text in the middle of the screen.
I then wandered away for ten minutes and let it run, and this was what it had gotten up to before I stopped it. A fox is starting to eat Jedao's legs. the person in front of him has long red hair and is turning away, and there appears to be some sort of mechanical space bike or whatnot occupying a landing pad at the top of the library, underneath a yellowish sunset sky.
Heartened by that, I decided to attempt to describe my current writings and see what it thought of that.
"book cover of italian renaissance mercenary and lady solving mysteries | artstation | unreal engine"
It has definitely seen a lot of Italian Renaissance paintings of cherubs and ladies and lords all seated in metaphorical clouds spiraling up the painting.
It has also seen a bunch of Renaissance architecture, and is deciding that I want a library instead of a book cover.
I can defintiely see the vague forms of Renaissance formal clothing in the top figure (presumably the mercenary I asked for) and the seated figure (presumably the lady I asked for), although there is either an almond or a loaf of bread floating a bit down and to the left of them. Maybe that is the mystery they are solving?
The library is becoming clearer and they are definitely pointing at the almond/loaf. YOUDUNNIT!
And as that was about what it wanted to do, I stopped it running here.
And for my final image, I asked for another book cover, but this time of someone very unlike Joe Abercrombie oryhlee.
"cover of a brandon sanderson fantasy novel | artstation | unreal engine"
I think this AI has definitely seen Brandon Sanderson fantasy novels.
Although it stuck with the library theme, I really liked the way that it incorporated the books into the architecture, especially with the pillar the figures are climbing, which eventually resolves into a spiral staircase.
Although it looks like the blue at top was starting to resolve into a dragon, the rest of i was losing that wonderful staircase of books, so I quit it rendering there.
These aren't all the ones I did, but the others weren't as good (and in the case of "portrait of an italian renaissance mercenary with tattooes on this face" DOWNRIGHT CREEPY), and so I didn't bother to save them. I shall keep playing with these and see what else I can come up with!
What is a Google Colab? Uh, hell if I know, even though I was using one to do all the AI-generated text a couple of years back. But you can set it up to run programs and use computer power elsewhere for it, and people have kindly set them up with software that runs the AI-generated art. I shall not explain how they work otherwise because it would mostly be "Click this, this, and this, then type here, then click there."
You type in prompts, and it does its best to produce something using hat it thinks the prompts say. It is not a human, so quite often it has nothing to do with reality. There are a few tricks you can use to pull better stuff out of it, and since it was trained on internet data two of those tricks are to add "artstation" (or "trending on artstation") and "unreal engine" to your prompt.
"grimdark fairy unreal engine"
"eldritch sword unreal engine"
"grimdark fantasy book cover by joe abercrombie unreal engine"
I love how it realized that a book cover would have text on it and tried to put Joe Abercrombie's name in there.
And then it was time to go do other stuff. I came back a few hours later, and produced two of the MOST FANTABULOUS THINGS EVER by dropping
yhlee's name and title into it, and adding "artstation"."book cover of ninefox gambit by yoon ha lee | artstation | unreal engine"
This is the first picture it came up with, which looks like a flat abstract painting with Asian--Chinese or Korean--influences, and a swash of orange color for the fox.
AND THEN IT JUST GOT BETTER.
Since it obviously hadn't read Yoon's book and didn't know that it was science fiction, I decided to let it know, and added a couple of keywords.
"book cover of ninefox gambit military science fiction by yoon ha lee | artstation | unreal engine"
Again, the first one, looking like a flat painting that someone is doing for concept design, and not really depicting anythign in particular except for "science fiction-y".
And then shapes get more defined.
And then it got confused as to whether I wanted this to be the cover of a book, or if I wanted a lot of books, and it started turning into a science fictional library, with, I think, Jedao as the librarian, sitting behind a desk with someone standing in front of it and leaning over at him.
But just in case I wanted the cover of a book, it started putting text in the middle of the screen.
I then wandered away for ten minutes and let it run, and this was what it had gotten up to before I stopped it. A fox is starting to eat Jedao's legs. the person in front of him has long red hair and is turning away, and there appears to be some sort of mechanical space bike or whatnot occupying a landing pad at the top of the library, underneath a yellowish sunset sky.
Heartened by that, I decided to attempt to describe my current writings and see what it thought of that.
"book cover of italian renaissance mercenary and lady solving mysteries | artstation | unreal engine"
It has definitely seen a lot of Italian Renaissance paintings of cherubs and ladies and lords all seated in metaphorical clouds spiraling up the painting.
It has also seen a bunch of Renaissance architecture, and is deciding that I want a library instead of a book cover.
I can defintiely see the vague forms of Renaissance formal clothing in the top figure (presumably the mercenary I asked for) and the seated figure (presumably the lady I asked for), although there is either an almond or a loaf of bread floating a bit down and to the left of them. Maybe that is the mystery they are solving?
The library is becoming clearer and they are definitely pointing at the almond/loaf. YOUDUNNIT!
And as that was about what it wanted to do, I stopped it running here.
And for my final image, I asked for another book cover, but this time of someone very unlike Joe Abercrombie or
yhlee."cover of a brandon sanderson fantasy novel | artstation | unreal engine"
I think this AI has definitely seen Brandon Sanderson fantasy novels.
Although it stuck with the library theme, I really liked the way that it incorporated the books into the architecture, especially with the pillar the figures are climbing, which eventually resolves into a spiral staircase.
Although it looks like the blue at top was starting to resolve into a dragon, the rest of i was losing that wonderful staircase of books, so I quit it rendering there.
These aren't all the ones I did, but the others weren't as good (and in the case of "portrait of an italian renaissance mercenary with tattooes on this face" DOWNRIGHT CREEPY), and so I didn't bother to save them. I shall keep playing with these and see what else I can come up with!