A Few Things To Try With DALL·E
Lighting, perspective, variation chaining, and other tricks to try with DALL·E.
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DALL·E. Is. Amazing.
DALL·E is intuivitely understandable on an emotional level while simultaneously being quite unintuitive on a logical level. (I'm sure Aristotle would have a fit)
Due to this quandary, I'm having a helluva amount of fun pressing this technology using solely imagination, being guided by my sense of wonder instead of reason.
Here are some things I've picked up so far that I think can help push the dialogue around DALL·E forward.
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Album Covers And Movie Posters Work Really Well -- And Be Sure To Try Puns
Amidst all of the Twitter bios being generated, I've been really impressed by DALL·E's ability to understand puns, and cultural significance.
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DALL·E lends well to pairing with human creativity as well. Here I took an output from DALL·E and turned it into a Kanye-type album cover.
![](https://www.bramadams.dev/content/images/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-28-12-18-52.png)
Two For The Price Of One
By merely appending "side by side", or "two frames", you can get two seperate DALL·E renditions in the same image!
![](https://www.bramadams.dev/content/images/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-28-12-23-59.png)
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Let There Be Lighting
I've been testing DALL·Es understanding of ISO Stops and exposure, and I've been quite surprised by the results. I'm also using the side-by-side trick mentioned above.
![](https://www.bramadams.dev/content/images/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-28-12-24-32.png)
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Perhaps All It Takes Is A Change Of Perspective
In the same vein, DALL·E seems to have some understanding of how angles of a camera or a painter affect the resulting image.
![](https://www.bramadams.dev/content/images/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-28-12-26-21.png)
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Animations -> Variation Chaining
In DALL·E one can create variations of a singular result. I'm going to go ahead and venture to make two predicitions right now:
- The term 'variation chaining' will enter the vernacular, and animators will need to learn the curation technique of how to "chain" correctly
- 'Variation chaining' will spawn multiple animation "universes" from a single root image. Each variation is a tree of 6 variation children, which have 6 variation children, and so on, and so on. I can't even begin to postulate the effect this will have on the definition of "original works". It just got 6^n more complex.
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Here's the evolution of this photo by Alex Holt into a volcanic crater of some sort.
![](https://www.bramadams.dev/content/images/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-28-12-28-18.png)
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In Sum
We're just scratching the surface of the creative applications of DALL·E. With a technology like this, it's best, and possibly in fact even necessary, to leave preconcieved notions checked at the door and be able to approch it with two things: An open mind, and a penchant for play.