Another 🧵 of AI-generated images from Caves of Qud text prompts (again, BigSleep, first tries). This time: terrain descriptions and a few items.
First, an orrery: "Brass gears, balls, and rings turn in precise mimicry of worlds and stars."
First, an orrery: "Brass gears, balls, and rings turn in precise mimicry of worlds and stars."
"In stagnant pools, luminous lilies compete with the ribbon of stars in the night sky. Under the salt sun, though, they shrink into the shade of brine weed." [salt marsh]
"Spores dance in eddies across kaleidoscopic fungal bonnets. Rivers of primordial soup, cast in the light of lava, gurgle a quickening melody." [the Rainbow Wood]
"Long ago the rivers themselves were ravenous, and they feasted on shale and limestone before taking bloated respite in the Great Salt Sea. Now the fissure-wounds have rotted to crimson and salt." [desert canyon]
"Blast furnaces sucked the tidal energy out of the planet, heated carbon to solar temperatures, and poured it into hexagonal molds." [crysteel gear, abridged]
"Prismatic filament colonizes the cracks between the salted rot. There are meadows here, She says." [flower fields]
"The grove's million laced fingers sway in gentle opulence. Verdant fronds nestle the base of the Spindle from its mountainous nook." [banana grove]
"Here crumble the mysterious Eaters' vine-swathed works, spun on the cyclopean lathe in an ageless past. Chrome steeples and parapets that rise above the clutches of shale hint at the labyrinths beneath them." [ruins]
"The hallowed ground upon which the Spindle, a lengthless needle of Maya blue, meets the earth from where it pierces the firmament." [the Spindle]
"Quark-gluon plasma rapidly cooled and was extinguished on the voidpeaks of the early universe, except where the globules got trapped in 6D kinks of spacetime." [zetachrome gear, abridged]
"Only the vexing hum of the Signal interrupts the incandescent stillness." [deathlands]
"A mountainous pyramid of chrome hovers about you. The volume around it appears furrowed somehow, and sound only comes through in waves; it's as though space and time themselves were crumpled away before the thing's very presence." [chrome pyramid]
Saved my favorite for last.
"The ivory sea's dunes are like waves frozen in place. There are cracks in the salt from where the earth, blistered by the jeweled sun, contracted and broke. The horizon melts the sky together with the vast plain of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert."
"The ivory sea's dunes are like waves frozen in place. There are cracks in the salt from where the earth, blistered by the jeweled sun, contracted and broke. The horizon melts the sky together with the vast plain of Moghra'yi, the Great Salt Desert."
There was a _tiny_ bit more curation this time. These are all still first runs, but I left out 4-5 results for other prompts that weren't as striking.
In a couple days I'll do a thread of my favorite non-Qud images I've generated
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