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A Flawed Paradise

Bernard
2 min readDec 12, 2021

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An artificial intelligence rendering of a tropical paradise. What is that figure?

One way that I have been coping with a lot of stress lately is by trying to render beautiful art through an artificial intelligence tool called VQGAN + CLIP.

It does a great job but is far from perfect.

I have also made a little bit of extra bank lately, having sold some of my generative art as NFTs.

This particular one could have been spectacular, but for one thing.

The figure does not represent a beautiful woman whatsoever. There are many beautiful flowers and there is a robin, representing the birds that I described in the prompt “a beautiful tropical paradise with flowers, birds, and a beautiful woman.”

Who would not want to see such a thing?

I have added the title image in my OpenSea store in my Abundance Mindset collection, but I would be lying to you if I wrote that I am happy with it.

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

I might have to use some of my paltry digital editing skills to find a suitable image of a beautiful woman. Most likely a creative commons image.

Then I will splice it over that amorphous blob that looks like two hind legs of an animal, perhaps some mythical hairy beast with huge legs and long scraggly hair.

For now, I share with you that it is far from perfect and I’ll figure out some way to make it more attractive and ultimately post the updated image here and sell the thing.

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Bernard
Bernard

Written by Bernard

A married father of two adult children and a Morkie. Long-time economic developer, former P.O., avid reader, thinker, investor, and walker.

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