DALL-E 2 trying buildings: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, digital art

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issues lots of artist renderings of forthcoming temples, has lots of images of their physical temples available online, and a lot of art created representing these buildings also gets shared online. With that in mind, I gave DALL-E 2 the prompt “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, digital art” and was not disappointed

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Created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

These are impressive, while it messes up lines and proportions a bit, it nails the actual style used for the real-world artist renderings of future buildings. For comparison, here are a few real examples of future buildings:

The DALL-E 2 generated ones just seem like rough drafts before a final version was put together, quite impressive!

DALL-E 2: Leonardo's Madonna of the Carnation with the infant being an extraterrestrial

I had hoped that the infant would be a grey alien, or something else, when I gave DALL-E 2 this prompt but, I’m still quite happy with the outcome.

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It genuinely just blows my mind that software generated this in less than 10 seconds from a text prompt. I’m quite happy with the fact it took “carnation” and made some very strange planet in the top left. The random assortment of planets with orbits that make no sense whatsoever, combined with the carnation planet, even make it feel like something from the Renaissance or even Baroque movements.

DALL-E 2: A photograph of a robot playing vintage gaming consoles

As someone that loves vintage gaming consoles, vintage computers (the Atari 800XL is my machine of choice from that era, I’ve owned about a dozen over the years and have since downsized to just 2), and vintage monitors I decided to try this query. DALL-E 2 created these with the prompt “A photograph of a robot playing vintage gaming consoles”

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Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

I’ve noticed that DALL-E 2 seems to struggle with controls, in most of these the buttons, switches, and knobs lack symmetry and refinement. Often looking like a chunk of the everlasting gobstopper in the Gene WIlder film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. I had previously noticed that it also struggles with lines on devices and buildings… it seems to understand what an edge/corner/window is but doesn’t understand quite how they should look.

DALL-E 2: Neon Theotokos

This is by far the simplest DALL-E 2 query I have input to date, simply “Neon Theotokos”

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Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

Made with OpenAI DALL-E 2

I honestly had no idea what to expect given I tried several other religious art queries prior to this with less than stellar results (so much so I didn’t even bother to save them) but I love ALL of these variations DALL-E 2 generated. This is such a neat tool.

DALL-E 2: A photorealistic Jesus Christ eating sausage pizza in space with aliens

This image was generated by DALL-E 2 via the following prompt “A photorealistic Jesus Christ eating sausage pizza in space with alien”

Jesus Christ eating sausage pizza in space with alien created with OpenAI DALL-E 2

This was definitely the best image of the lot. As you can see, “photorealistic” struck out, and the pizza doesn’t appear to have sausage but still quite impressive, especially given it appears to have also created an end table and a beverage. I find it interesting that, what I assume is, the alien looks like a kidney with narrow appendages and mushroomesque ‘hair’. Unless, of course, the aliens are both it and the figures on the table.

DALL-E 2: A baroque painting of a dragon eating nachos

Giving OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 the prompt “A baroque painting of a dragon eating nachos” the following image was generated

Image of a dragon eating nachos as created with DALL-E 2

This was one of my first DALL-E 2 queries and all 6 images generated were great but this was hands down my favorite of the lot. I will say that it does look more like a quesadilla than nachos but still incredibly impressive.