Author: VR

images 040923

As I become more comfortable with the potentials and limitations of Midjourney, I have generated hundreds of images. While it is hard to sample such a fire-hose rush of images, here are some favorites...

Images 040423

As in my post “Problem with dissimilar actors”, I am basically unable to place discretely dissimilar actors into the same scene. Given that fact, I am concentrating on what I can do—and to that...

Thoughts on prompt execution 032423

After using DALL-E for a few months, I have recently switched mostly to Midjourney and I have noticed some differences in the way the two AIs handle prompt instructions. My approach to generative art...

Introducing Midjourney V5 032223

Midjourney recently upgraded to V5, so after just a few days using V4 I decided to give it a try. It is noticeably more powerful in many ways, capable of yielding impressively photorealistic results....

Introducing Midjourney 031723

After working for months with the generative AI platform DALL-E, I have just begun using Midjourney. This AI has a different workflow and it has a somewhat different look and feel to the images...

Images and variations 022423

I spent quite a bit of time today devoted to a couple of subjects. One centered around the idea of a doorway in space-time through which alternate views of reality might flow. The other...

A partial self-portrait

As part of my continuing attempts to engage DALL-E with self-representation, I fed it the following prompt: “a neural network is skiing on its descent gradient”. I think the resulting generation is a thoughtful...

Windmills 021423

I decided to do a series of windmill generations with this prompt: “a burning windmill on a riverbank, surrounded by supplicating zephyrs, under a starry sky”. The results are below. The supplicating zephyrs appear...

College essay on Scrum and Kanban

I teach video game development courses at a community college and I recently gave students in my Production class the following assignment to probe their understanding of two complementary project management methodologies. ChatGPT did...