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🎨 Two shoebill storks in an umbrella shop in the style of Edward Gorey
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:26 PM on July 2, 2022

sardonyx: "The first Lisa Frank one gave me an "adult content warning, click if you're over 18 message" for no discernible reason."

Yeah, Imgur apparently errs very much on the side of caution with those warnings, it's about the most innocent thing you can imagine.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:28 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Photo of a snail and a beetle playing the board game Go, the board is full of black and white stones

Tried adding some extra keywords here as I reckoned it might have trouble picking up the word "Go" -- turns out the bigger problem was blending the snail with the beetle! Here are the other ones.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:36 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A modernist illustration of the Loch Ness Monster by Charley Harper

They all tended towards minimalism; this was the one with the most Harper-esque vibe. I might have gotten better results with something like "ornamentation" or "lots of details".
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:42 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 a dramatic oil painting of a group of robed priests worshipping their leviathan lobster god
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:45 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Medieval tapestry of Homer Simpson kissing Count Dracula on the bridge of the starship Enterprise

Hmm, it normally does great with Homer Simpson, but looks like the medieval aesthetic won out, leaving them both looking like Some Dude (and mostly taking "bridge" literally!). But that seems to be the risk in trying to include a bunch of distinct, disparate things.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:52 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Beijing CCTV surveillance headquarters, illustration by Hugh Ferriss

It definitely nailed his monolithic style, though most of them are a bit more colorful and modernist than his other works.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 5:57 PM on July 2, 2022

LionIndex: "Yeah, got the "imposing" part, but not so much the lighting and medium."

Yeah, it seems to have more success with artists whose styles are widely known and imitated, like Van Gogh or Magritte. For more niche stuff it can often get the gist, but it definitely helps to spell out the aesthetic you want in addition to namechecking the artist.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:03 PM on July 2, 2022

Still have 39 prompts left -- gonna take a second run at some of the weaker results in a bit if there aren't any new requests.

Greg_Ace, are there any examples you can find of the style you're looking for? I was thinking of asking for a photo of tattoo art, but that would tend to be more colorful and detailed than "stick figure drawing", which I expect would look pretty crude. Is that the aesthetic you're after, or more like something elegant/minimalist?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:40 PM on July 2, 2022

Tried the snail/beetle Go game a couple more times -- as expected, "A snail and a beetle playing Go" missed the "Go" part entirely, and ended up looking like nature photography (though the snail and beetle were much clearer in that context). Trying something more verbose ("Chinese board game Go, black and white stones on a grid. A snail and a beetle are on the Go board.") got closer to the game's appearance (by no means accurate!) while the… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:55 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 electromagnetic radiation

Heavy on the stock photo vibe, though it also gives us our first delightful example of DALL-E attempting to do text: RADDIAD INDIAL INVIATOI!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:00 PM on July 2, 2022

Tried the Loch Ness one again with the added tag "lots of ornamentation and detail" and got better results; my favorite.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:06 PM on July 2, 2022

Should have mentioned this in the post, but there are thousands of great examples on /r/dalle2 if you want some inspiration or to get a better idea of what works and what doesn't.

rustybullrake: "I don't know how basic to be."

More detail is usually better -- without context, it tends to default to generic cartoonish illustrations or stock photo style images; if you can specify a style that helps to focus things. Of course there are two schools of thought...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:09 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A beautiful, realistic, luminous painting of rough ocean waves under a cloudy sky, by Ivan Aivazovsky, oil on canvas, 1881

Gorgeous results all around.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:17 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Photograph of Christopher Lee's Dracula eating a hotdog at a night market, Zeiss Jupiter-9 85mm lens, Ektachrome film

Greg_Ace: "Yeah, elegant/minimalist are better words - less than just a drawing of a cat but not a crude stick figure. Maybe something like this or this - I like the arched back - but less "realistic". Sort of the way the Uffington Horse isn't an accurate horse, but more the feeling of a horse.… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:31 PM on July 2, 2022

oh my lol:

🎨 A team of giant chihuahuas pulling a dogsled. A cat is the musher riding the dogsled.

I really wish this thing still had unlimited prompts, I could play with these wordings all day.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:39 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Rainbow unicorn pegasus kitten on a spaceship

The others were nice too, but that's the only one that included some Pegasus wings.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:42 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Volkswagen Beetle engine replacement diagram by Katsuhiro Otomo

Engine schematics definitely overpowered Otomo here, I might revisit this one later with more manga keywords.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:46 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 End of civilization caused by a paperclip maximizer AI

I WANT TO BELIEVE
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 7:49 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A Klein bottle that looks like Albert Einstein

Look into his eyes. He longs for death.

Greg_Ace: "The lower middle one is closest to what's in my head"

Full res version
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:03 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨Digital art of a werewolf baker mixing dough under a giant licorice Eiffel Tower.

Pretty great! (Weirdly, the others were almost completely off-topic.)
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:07 PM on July 2, 2022

Yeah BungaDunga, their main concern is avoiding political deepfakes and I imagine a photo of a presidential debate would run afoul of that (not to mention the religious angle!)

Took another crack at LionIndex's request and got a better result:

🎨Perspective drawing of the Beijing CCTV surveillance headquarters building, monolithic Art Deco architecture illustration by Hugh Ferriss, dramatic lighting
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:14 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Angels dancing on top of a Rubik's Cube, digital art (got two good ones here)

Fun fact: It's almost impossible to get DALL-E to generate a solved Rubik's cube.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:20 PM on July 2, 2022

Speaking of which...

🎨 An octopus holding a Rubik's cube amidst a coral reef, Art Nouveau style

They were all really striking in their own way, hard to pick just one!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:26 PM on July 2, 2022

Past the halfway point now!

Mizu: "If you’re willing to do another one for me, I would enjoy “photorealistic platonic solids made of fruits on a wooden tray”"

To avoid burning another prompt, I've seen a very similar one before that you might like.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:30 PM on July 2, 2022

Holy cow this was a good one:

🎨 Godzilla approaching Tokyo, incredibly realistic landscape painting with monumental scale and beautiful atmospheric lighting by Albert Bierstadt

Gonna post them all in full resolution, they were so impressive:

one - two - three - four - five - six
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:40 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 An exasperated librarian at the beach, digital art

These were all quite nice -- I also liked this more painterly one.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:45 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Julius Caesar barbecuing while wearing plaid shorts and smoking a cigar

Is that the fabled grass crown, or just some garnish?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 8:51 PM on July 2, 2022

Prompt #30!

🎨 Watercolor sketch of a solar-powered recumbent tricycle riding down the Pacific Coast Highway

This turned out very nicely, though the scenery was not as picturesque as I'd hoped. Let me know if there's any you want in full resolution!

clavdivs: "absolutely amazing."

I love the power move of smoking the cigar while holding another cigar in his hand.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 9:03 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Subway-style transit map of the ancient Silk Road trade route

Worked better than I thought -- I especially like how most look yellowed with age despite the modern design. Let me know if there's any you want in full size!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 9:17 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Detailed schematic of the singularity AI

The best of some not-great options.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 9:20 PM on July 2, 2022

Sorry y'all, had to take a phone call.

brook horse: "Realized that “war” might trip the sensors."

It actually got through!

🎨 A Warframe robot from the video game Warframe drinking tea from a china teacup, painterly digital art.

Maybe because of the compound word, or perhaps they loosened up a bit.

I'm not super familiar with the game, but let me know if any of them strikes your fancy and I'll post the full size version.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 9:51 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Gnomon image of the Michelson-Morley experiment as it applies to Bohmian Pilot Wave Theory

I know what some of these words mean! (Not the DALL-E ones, nobody knows what those mean.)

brook horse: "Oh, excellent, thank you! The top middle one is definitely my favorite. “Cheers!”"

Full size version!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 9:56 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Brideshead Revisited, in the style of Warhammer 40K

Looks like a case of not enough context. Maybe it would work better with a specific character or situation?
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:00 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A photo of a black Australian cattle dog driving a 1965 Chevrolet Corvette in downtown Detroit

Interestingly, the shiny reflective finish you see on the Corvette in most (actual) images of it seems to rub off on the dog in most of them.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:06 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A Pop Art painting of a Ford Pinto by Wayne Thiebaud

The best of several good ones!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:17 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 A dog, a cat, a businessman, and a dragon playing a fantasy tabletop roleplaying game, digital art

It's definitely tough to squeeze so many distinct creatures into one context -- this one was close-ish but the others were various amalgamations.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:24 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Mandelbrot set fractal on top of a Jacob's Ladder, painting by Toulouse-Lautrec
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:35 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Humanoid robots cooking classical French food in a beautiful kitchen

Another unexpectedly fantastic one! Here are all of them:

one - two - three - four - five - six

Ten more prompts to go! Though at this point it's a race against me needing to go to bed...
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:40 PM on July 2, 2022

🎨 Joan of Arc refusing the extended warranty for a food processor at Best Buy

lol

contraption: "Geet Finkus, studio portrait"

Was going to try a pseudo style transfer using inpainting since I'm sure it won't recognize a niche Twitter account, but unfortunately OpenAI blocks using photos with real faces. So here's the results for a regular prompt, which doesn't touch on the Twitter account but… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:59 PM on July 2, 2022

From upthread:

🎨 The abstract concept of intransigence petting a Swedish vallhund puppy on a drag strip
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:02 PM on July 2, 2022

For curious nu:

🎨 The Electromagnetic Spectrum, digital art
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:04 PM on July 2, 2022

For sammyo:

🎨 A dung beetle inside a turbo encabulator with daisies.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:07 PM on July 2, 2022

Mizu:

🎨 photorealistic platonic solids made of fruits on a wooden tray
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:09 PM on July 2, 2022

Redoing the VW beetle manga one; now this is more like it:

🎨 Anime key art of a Volkswagen Beetle engine replacement, manga art by Katsuhiro Otomo

one - two - three - four - five - six

Mizu: "I LOVE IT. Can I get full res??"

That's it! It tops out at 1024x1024.
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:14 PM on July 2, 2022

Second attempt for lalochezia:

🎨 Humanity being destroyed by a paperclip-maximizing supercomputer AI, digital art
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:16 PM on July 2, 2022

That's all folks! Also, here's an Imgur gallery of all the pics uploaded in this thread.

I'm locked out for the next 17 hours, but feel free to leave more ideas. I won't be able to do everything as thoroughly as tonight (I have some side projects I'm using DALL-E for, plus I do want to play around with it myself!) but I'll keep checking back as long as the thread is open and fulfill ones that tickle my fancy. Can't wait until this is broadly available and see what everyone can do with it!
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:26 PM on July 2, 2022

Was demoing this IRL yesterday, so not sure how many more prompts I have left today. Let's find out!

Mitheral:
🎨 Photograph of a snow leopard pulling a teardrop camper trailer.

obfuscation:
🎨 Abstract surrealist painting of a Great Dane puppy teaching a university math class, oil on canvas by Joan Miró, 1925

Kosm0bot (note that their terms don't allow commercial use!):
🎨 The… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 10:32 AM on July 5, 2022

A few more tonight:

birdsquared:
🎨 An octopus eating a crab, colorful sharp-edged Rinpa School lithograph by Tanaka Isson, 1969

daisyace:
🎨 Perspective painting of a long dark hallway leading to a brown-haired man reaching towards a sparrow next to a single window, oil on canvas by Edward Hopper

Kattullus:
🎨 thingamajig

effluvia:
🎨 The… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 11:52 PM on July 5, 2022

oomny:
🎨 Colored pencil drawing of a horse with hoof-hands riding a bicycle (tried this one a few times and that was the closest I could get!)

some_kind_of_toaster:
🎨 A domesticated miniature pet bear sitting on its owner’s lap

CheeseDigestsAll:
🎨 A Cat Eating a Rhinoceros Beetle, oil on canvas, by Hieronymus Bosch

If only I had a penguin...:
🎨 A moose and a beaver… [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Rhaomi at 6:19 PM on July 6, 2022