{"id":73807,"date":"2021-01-18T13:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73807"},"modified":"2021-01-18T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:08:20","slug":"openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator-grossman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/01\/18\/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator-grossman\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator [Grossman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/01\/16\/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OpenAI\u2019s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from venturebeat.com by Gary Grossman; with thanks to Tim Holt for sharing this resource<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/01\/16\/openais-text-to-image-engine-dall-e-is-a-powerful-visual-idea-generator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73808 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/creative_images-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI\u2019s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/creative_images-1024x638.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/creative_images-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/creative_images-768x479.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/creative_images.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">OpenAI chose the name DALL-E as a hat tip to the artist Salvador Dal\u00ed and Pixar\u2019s WALL-E. It produces pastiche images that reflect both Dal\u00ed\u2019s surrealism that merges dream\u00a0and\u00a0fantasy\u00a0with the everyday rational world, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixartalk.com\/feature-films\/walle\/wall-e-production-notes\/\">inspiration<\/a>\u00a0from NASA paintings from the 1950s and 1960s and those for Disneyland Tomorrowland by Disney Imagineers.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m not a big fan of having AI create the music that I listen to, or the artwork that I take in. But I do think there&#8217;s potential here in giving creative artists some new fodder for thought! Perhaps marketers and\/or journalists could also get their creative juices going from this type of service\/offering.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Speaking of art, here are a couple of other postings that caught my eye recently:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2021\/01\/juho-konkkola-origami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>This Elaborately Armored Samurai Was Folded From A Single Sheet of Paper<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2021\/01\/juho-konkkola-origami\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73812 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"This Elaborately Armored Samurai Was Folded From A Single Sheet of Paper\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/konkkola-7.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Also see:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theawesomer.com\/fabric-portraits-by-benjamin-shine\/606973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Fabric Portraits by Benjamin Shine<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theawesomer.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RevJk31-7iU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s text-to-image engine, DALL-E, is a powerful visual idea generator &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Gary Grossman; with thanks to Tim Holt for sharing this resource Excerpt: OpenAI chose the name DALL-E as a hat tip to the artist Salvador Dal\u00ed and Pixar\u2019s WALL-E. It produces pastiche images that reflect both Dal\u00ed\u2019s surrealism that merges dream\u00a0and\u00a0fantasy\u00a0with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,277,356,271,72,37,419,180,482,25,476,23,256,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-art","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-creativity","category-daniel-s-christian","category-future","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-intelligent-systems","category-journalism","category-marketingsocial-marketing","category-multimedia","category-music","category-visualizing-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73814,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73807\/revisions\/73814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}