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Hi guys,

I needed a break and went on a short trip to Aronar. Nice area! I stayed in a small town in the middle of the jungle. I took a photo of it for you from a nearby hill. Check it out!



Pretty, isn't it? The casino was OK too, but I didn't win much.

One day I went on a photo safari to see the famous local goats. You could have booked a hunt, but that's not really my thing. When we met one, I had a really bad feeling. The guide assured me that the animals are quite peaceful and won't hurt you if you don't provoke them. But who knows for sure? And they certainly didn't get the "deadly" label just for fun. At least I got a few nice photos. And one with me in it, which my guide took as a souvenir for me.



See you!

C. B.

Niiice... That is really one impressive Aronarian deadly goat. ...And looks like those Aronarians have figured out how to co-exist with nature contentedly.

I'd be interested to know, Commander Beatnik, what you used to produce those pics, and how, please.

You can't beat Aronar for R'n'R!

What a luscious world...

Thank you for the kind comments!

I'd be interested to know, Commander Beatnik, what you used to produce those pics, and how, please.

All the images I posted here in on the BB were created using Microsoft Image Creator. Image Creator uses Open AI's artificial intelligence DALL-E to create images from a text description. The software runs via browser and is currently free to use, but you do need a Microsoft account. Unfortunately, it seems that the test phase has just ended and you can only make a limited number of requests per day.

What Image Creator does with a text description is different every time you run it, even if you don't change the text. For example to get the deadly goat that I posted, some fine-tuning of the text was necessary and it took about 30 attempts to get a usable image that did meet my expectations.

I also thought about whether there might be a problem with copyright if you post an AI-generated image. But that is not the case according to both Microsoft and Open AI support. Open AI even allows commercial use of images created with DALL-E. However, one must not deceive anyone into thinking that an image was created using AI and pass it off as one's own work.

Finally, something to smile about. A few images of "deadly goats" that DALL-E produced and that did not make it into the final selection.

Those goats sure seem rather non-herbivorously deadly.

Captain Beatnik wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2024 10:04 pm

What Image Creator does with a text description is different every time you run it, even if you don't change the text.

I've tried a half-a-dozen or more of the online text-to-image generators, and the only one I know of that includes the seed number in its results, so one can go back later and re-generate a similar image, is at imagine.art

https://www.imagine.art/dashboard/tool/from-text

Disappointingly, their new, "version 2", tool does not do this.

https://www.imagine.art/dashboard/tool/text-to-image

If anyone reading this knows of other image generators that allow consistent re-generation of images, please reply.

enjoyable vacation slides ;P

And did you survive the encounter with the goat? It looks so angry!

Captain Beatnik wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 7:10 pm

And did you survive the encounter with the goat? It looks so angry!

Of course he survived. But I'm wondering what happened to his comrade.
Or is the goat looking at some fellow goat behind the camera?

hiran wrote: ↑Thu Jun 20, 2024 9:10 pm

Or is the goat looking at some fellow goat behind the camera?