DALL-E-2: Animals driving colorful 1920s convertibles: paintings by Picasso
Images for wooden jigsaw puzzles
This week I chose another visual theme and got DALL-E to generate images from it for wooden jigsaw puzzles. I introduced that theme in some detail in a previous post, Animals Riding Bicycles. Briefly: to make a good jigsaw puzzle, we want playful images that tell a story and have a lot of color variation.
DALL-E started off with a bang with “An elephant driving a 1920s convertible, painting by Picasso”. That’s a good amount of Picassoesque wackiness for my taste, and I’m left trying to describe him. Cheery? Proud? The elephant about town?
But often we didn’t get enough Picasso, as with this moose. To my surprise, adding the word cubist didn’t help (not shown).
But adding the word colorful helped. Here’s “A mandrill driving a colorful 1920s convertible, painting by Picasso”. Those orange stripes on the seat remind me of the blue stripes that are often so prominent on a mandrill’s face, and knowing DALL-E as I do, I suspect it’s mixing up parts of the mandrill and the car. When trying to paint like Picasso, this is a feature.
The most cubist painting in the series is this one of Panda, with the car’s hood facing one way and its steering wheel facing the other way, its folding top askew.
I love this cheery image of Piglet.
I chose this image of Lemur because of the way he’s staring at me, but I also like the way the shadows under the wheels are accentuated, and the colorful sky. His tail is huge, of course, but then lemurs are like that.
This last image of Owl is my favorite. Painting him orange on the left and green on the right gives him just the right cubist touch.
How did we do overall? These are pleasing images! They are not necessarily in the style of Picasso, but they are fun and colorful. They would look right at home in the Artifact Wooden Jigsaw Puzzles Collection, and the only real reason I’m not working to put them there already is that DALL-E is not open for commercial use. It will be fun to explore how it does with other artists styles.
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