DALL-E

Showing off newest entries here, so you don't have to go searching for 'what's new' when I update.

Just a small gallery to 'highlight' some of the better images from below. I'll update this section as new content is added.

Today (2024/09/07) I was helping out Chronic667 with some render ideas for his website. I don't think any of these were used in the end (the scope/direction changed), but I felt some of them still looked visually interesting. Not sure if I'll keep them in the gallery long term, but figured I'd show an example of a more recent use case.

Chronic667 showed me an image (the left most one) from one of Suno's auto generated music art albums and commented about how cool the style was. Curious, I took this image and decided to see what I could have DALL-E generate as a render using that image as a starting point. Then I just tweated the prompt with each pass (going left to right), seeing where I could go with it. I'm not fully done with this experiment, so expect more to be added at a later time, but it's neat to see how the style evolved. I especially liked the muted colors in the city-scape and the color selection in the tropical beach scene. Somewhat reminds me of the type of images you would find on a coaster (the kind for holding cups).

So these are just a few generations from different conversations I had with ChatGPT when it came to rendering cars in a Pixel Art style. The Honda Element (orange) is based off my current car (as of this writing), while the other cars are from other friends/family.

In the somewhat early days of DALL-E 3 access (via ChatGPT), I used to generate a few butterfly images every day. Initially, I had the prompt designed in a way so that ChatGPT would pick a new random flower each day (but keep the same Monarch butterfly).. but eventually I changed it to pick a different butterfly as well. I used this as a somewhat educational tool for learning about different butterflies and flower species (reading the generated prompts), while at the same time getting some cool artwork in the process. But unfortunately, for whatever reason, the generated image quality began to drop off considerably and eventually I gave up on the venture. This ended up becoming my biggest frustration with DALL-E, because it was apparent that it was once very good at generating renders that looked like high quality Pixel Art... but as of this writing, not anymore.

Just to give a reference to how bad the quality of getting good 'pixel art' has started to degrade... some of these were rendered just a few days ago. (They don't look bad when scaled down, but view them at full size and you'll clearly see the issues).