Ryan Mercer's thoughts, mostly random musings, spanning form 2001 to present. Freemason, geek, nutter, Whovian, 8-bit Atari enthusiast, SciFi fan.
Here with another needle felting query, I tried to throw DALL-E 2 a curve ball with “felt needling” and it handled it like a champ generating some great digital images from the following query “ felt needling of psycahdelic robots”
The other day Sam Altman’s tweet about Dairy Queen’s Blizzards got me curious (and hungry, grrrrrr, thanks a lot Sam!)
dairy queen blizzard is by far the best fast food
— Sam Altman (@sama) June 16, 2022
so I fed (pun not intended) DALL-E 2 the query “An artificial intelligence enjoying an oreo dairy queen blizzard”. This one was my favorite (and a rather interesting way to enjoy ice cream):
It generated some other nice results as well, just not as fun:
These are the best “eyes” I’ve seen DALL-E 2 generate to date as far as imitating photographed objects is concerned.
See how it does weird stuff with the left eye in this one as compared to the one immediately above?
Again, the eyes are a bit odd here, notice what looks like clumped clay/paint on both?
I found it interesting that it took “oreo” and created all of the entities with the white and black, it really seems to like blue too for this query, perhaps from the blue ‘swoosh’ in the Dairy Queen logo?
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”
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
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.
