Today early morning, I awakened from a dream that I was thinking about Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin exchanging ideas about Science and Evolution. A old movie BLADERUNNER played on a neighboring track in my dream at the same time, and I started mixing those together. Awakening fully, I thought I write down the various ideas and try to make a prompt for AI it can follow without getting too confused. Mind you, some of my prompt writing had been deliberate to confuse AI and make it halucinate (I wrote about this here) - a related article from IBM where I quoted from: What are AI Halucinations?.
I have been on Nightcafe AI starting from its crude beginnings over 3 years ago, and considerably longer on Deep Dream, which later added Text2Dream. Over time, both platforms were offering more and more models to work with.
From time to time over these years, Einstein became a subject, and Darwin was a subject of my analog paintings decades earlier. The search function on Nightcafe works well to find things I had forgotten about, so searching for Einstein across my considerable stash of images returned some I had done two to almost three years ago. Some of those prompts crossed over into other subjects, such as 'Self-Aware Machines', i.e. sophisticated Androids, hence my mention of the movie 'Bladerunner' on top of the intro.
I 'resurrected' an older prompt that came from a Stable Diffusion piece, which had Einstein in the wording: 'Einstein's Secret Orchestra' but when I ran it, no Einstein was visible. This failed attempt I posted earlier in my Snaps SELF AWARE MACHINE CYCLE, so I added Albert Einstein in capital letters on top of the prompt, and it worked. Z-Image Turbo came through:
A detailed, horror-themed digital rendering depicts a dark, intricate biomechanical background with elements reminiscent of the Alien movie franchise, featuring exposed organs, tubes, and a clockwork mechanism. The central golden circular frame encloses the upper body of Albert Einstein, looking to the left, wearing a suit and tie, with a serious expression. Two monstrous, xenomorph-like heads with sharp teeth and yellow eyes are prominent, one above Einstein and one partially visible below an ornate golden cog in the lower left. The creatures have exposed pinkish-red internal structures and numerous black tubes connected to them. Below Einstein, a mass of tangled, dark red fleshy tendrils and tubes extend downward.
Various golden, metallic gears, pipes, and ornate gothic elements are integrated throughout the dark background, weaving around and connecting the different elements. The words "EINSTEIN EQUATIONS" are written in gold letters to the right of Einstein, and "SELF-AWARE MACHINE" is written in gold letters to the left. The overall color palette consists of dark grays, black, metallic gold, and eerie shades of pink and red for the organic components. The style is highly detailed, blending mechanical and biological horror elements in a dark, ominous atmosphere.
Deep Dream Text2Dream, the DDG Model ImagineArt, was not successful rendering the texting, actually, very few models are any good at this and usually write gibberish or badly misspell stuff. I used a simple text prompt for it, and this was the result:
ALBERT EINSTEIN EQUATION about self aware machines by egon schiele austin osman spare, toyen, caravaggio jean benoit Post-Production, artstation, john salt detailed intricate, dystopian hypermaximalist, dreamlike ornate, hyperrealistic, ethereal 16k surrealistic, spectral, imperial colors, fantastic view, cinematic postprocessing, Surrealism, H.R. Giger, Giger Alien : Einstein's secret orchestra by atomic austin osman spare, jock sturges, Norman rockwell amanda sage jackson pollock photographic , minimalist, surrealistic, scientific mystery subgenius 16k resolution, 3ds max, vray, unreal
I had better luck running this prompt with the DDG Model DaVinci2 - since it ignored the font text (which I actually didn't even ask for specifically):
and then this one:
THE EINSTEIN - DARWIN DEBATES
Close-up portraits of Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin, both wearing vintage Soldier Helmets, arguing over quantum physics and evolution, pointing fingers at each other. In the background a parchment chart with formulas and drawings of cryptid creatures fastened to the wall with thumbtacks. A surreal style mix of Grant Wood and Hieronymus Bosch.
This in turn generated a AI description which I then imported to Nightcafe:
A realistic oil painting of an older Albert Einstein (left) and Charles Darwin (right) both wearing old and rusty military helmets with chin straps, pointing their fingers directly at each other while having a debate. Einstein is on the left with his white frizzy hair and mustache, wearing a brown suit jacket, a white collared shirt, and a dark tie. He has his mouth slightly open as if he is speaking animatedly. Darwin is on the right with a full white beard and long white hair, also wearing a brown suit jacket, a white collared shirt, and a dark tie. Both men are looking at each other intensely. Behind them, on a tan scroll-like background, are old scientific equations, and drawings of creatures like a Bigfoot, a gargoyle-like flying creature, and a dinosaur. The background also includes various scientific and mathematical symbols, and the word "EVOLUTION" is subtly visible at the top right.
using the above text as prompt
Multi-tasking quantum jump .....
I thought of this while reading reports over controversies about rule-conforming ski attire for FIS alpine ski events.
Ski-jumping Physicist Professor Albert Einstein, dressed in ugly Christmas Sweater, wearing a Viking helmet, baggy Knickerbocker pants, with Pipi Langstrumpf Stockings, jumping with antique skis, in mid-flight over snowy Austrian Alps while playing a violin.
A parchment banner on top with gothic script: "Our Hero Uncle Albert"
done with Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast
I used a description from a image done on Deep Dream Text2Dream with DDG Model ChatGPT Full. It's fun to mix these things up! This is TEXT ONLY, no seed image was used.
Did I say finally? I just hope you don't take this too seriously. I was having fun with it, no deep thoughts, just some surreal musings. Then something else popped in from the old prompts, which I thought I should try out with the Z-Image Turbo model:
ALBERT EINSTEIN and his Cryptid Einstein dress mannequin performing brain salad surgery on a blue skinned alien Punker, ritualised fever dream, ordo templi orientes, Occult Sinister Liminal Gothic, creepy, style of H R Giger, Hieronymus Bosch, Chet Zar, Anton Semenov, Caia Koopman, Mark Zug, Jean-Baptiste Monge, and Cameron Gray, digital oil painting, hyperreal, insanely surreal, psycho-delic, imperial colours,
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Albert Einstein und Charles Darvin ist natürlich ein riesiger Fundus für Spekulationen um Bewusstsein, Kreativität und Sinn des Lebens. Wobei Bewusstsein, Kreativität und Intuition eh nicht in der materiellen Welt lokalisiert werden können sondern sich darin nur wie ein Echo spiegeln. Burkhard Heim (x5,X6) und Roger Penrose und Hammeroff (Orch-OR) Lassen grüßen.
Hier noch ein Bild von mir von Albert Einstein in ein Encaustik Malerei
Ich wusste nicht dass du malst! Kann mir aber vorstellen dass dies eines Imkers Hobby sein könnte, das Material dazu hast du ja zur genüge. Enkaustik Malerei
Ja, ich male viel - Öl und Encaustik. Ich werde demnächst mal ein paar Bilder präsentieren! Hier mal ein Beispiel - Das magische Auge - The magic eye
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