Playing around making pictures of permaculture stuff.

All a.i. generated, but I have to say I came up with a great concept, visually anyway (in my opinion).

I just typed this exact "prompt" into the image generator, and it spit these four out within seconds.  I was surprised how well it understood the idea.

"permaculture property on a piece of land that is in the style of a spiral herb garden, except it's a long driveway that leads to the home at the top of the spiral. There are fruit trees, and vegetable gardens where the herbs would be planted"

Kind of fun to look at abstract ideas you'd never seen before (and I can't draw a stick figure, so I'm stuck using a.i.)

It's free too.  

Joshua Bertram wrote:All a.i. generated, but I have to say I came up with a great concept, visually anyway (in my opinion).

I just typed this exact "prompt" into the image generator, and it spit these four out within seconds.  I was surprised how well it understood the idea.

"permaculture property on a piece of land that is in the style of a spiral herb garden, except it's a long driveway that leads to the home at the top of the spiral. There are fruit trees, and vegetable gardens where the herbs would be planted"

Kind of fun to look at abstract ideas you'd never seen before (and I can't draw a stick figure, so I'm stuck using a.i.)

It's free too.  

Thank you!
I’m thinking about something along these lines and didn’t know where to start. My idea is a bit different but these concept designs have secured my attention.
Again, thanks!

I've been playing too, with variable results.

This was something like "elderly woman in garden gathering herbs and vegetables with welsh sheepdog".

I don't think it fully understood though...

Happy to see people embracing or at least trying the tech.   It's fun to mess around with if nothing else.

So this website takes a simple prompt, like, "elderly woman in garden gathering herbs and vegetables with welsh sheepdog" and rewrites it like this.

A charming, nostalgic scene of an elderly woman in a lush, sunlit garden, tending to her herbs and vegetables. She is accompanied by her loyal Welsh sheepdog, who is watching her attentively. The woman wears a sensible hat, a floral dress, and rubber boots. The garden is filled with colorful flowers, and the background reveals a quaint, stone farmhouse. The overall atmosphere exudes a sense of warmth, love, and connection to nature."

The site is ideogram.ai  It's very simple to use.

These are the four images it generated from Burras simple original prompt.

Ai feels super creepy to me, but it is good at rendering smooth textures. Which makes it even more creepy sometimes...
What I like about it is that people stopped stealing images from real artists and went to use ai instead. Which was feeding on real artists...

Last week I tried making an image of a woman in permie style kitchen with her pet raven.

It didn't go quite the way I expected, but I rolled with it and ended up with a mini story.

First of all, it make the raven far too big. Which appeared to annoy the woman in the image.

I'm pretty sure she's saying...

Get off my freaking arm you great overgrown crow you...

I thought the kitchen was too much like an apothecary so I added 'herbs hanging to dry' to the prompt. And the result was, to me, utterly hilarious.

"Tried to warn you. Now you shall become pie..."

So I added pie to the prompt...

Mmmm, pie....

Then I tried to add chutney to the image, as I'd spent a few days converting a glut of frozen figs into fig-and-lemon chutney. The raven was still up to his tricks though...

You dropped half a fresh lemon into the chutney I just made. You wanna end up in a pie like your brother did or what?

You see this fig? I'm gonna give you ONE guess where I'm gonna shove it if that bloody bird drops anything else into my chutney...

What the heck have you dropped into my pot of herbs, Raven? That's it. I'm done with having you in the house. You can go and live outside. No idea how you managed to get yourself in here anyway. Now go. Shoo!

So we moved proceedings to the garden. It seemed to go well at first.

They're not quite so annoying out here, even if they are breeding like rabbits. I guess they can breed like rabbits if they want. Up to them really...

And then the AI started to turn things really weird and I decided to play along with it...

I should never have said 'let them breed like rabbits' should I? Why are they so freaking annoying?

But then, over the years, I learned to go with the flow a little.

Ravits are less annoying than ravens. With no pokey beak or grabby claws that drop things where they don't belong.

Plus, they do make an exceptionally tasty pie...

Ravens are near and dear to my heart.  <3

Swans too!

I tried a baroque version of 'raven who looks like a black swan'.

Wasn't expecting this, but hey - if you don't want to turn them into pie you can always wear them like a hat!

I like all the images! One thing I'd do differently (if you are listening AI) is have a pond in the center of the "circle of life" rather than a house...or a combo of the two.

Think this fits here? Beekeeping since the stone age. Playground AI, heavily modified 'borrowed' prompt. Post processed to make the bees look like bees instead of a mass of seed heads. Prompting for bees results in them being huge and out of scale.