Thread by @hardmaru

Good Morning!

I tried to use text-to-image models to combine historical architecture with other locations around the world.

Here is “The Great Wall of San Francisco” by #Imagen

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“The Great Wall of Stanford” generated using #Imagen

Accurate:

Let’s take this somewhere more exotic.

Here’s “The Great Wall of Bali” by #Imagen

“The Great Wall of Amalfi” by #Imagen

Another one of my favorite places in the world:

“The Great Wall of Africa” by #Imagen

“The Great Wall of Finland” by #Imagen

Looks so relaxing. 🇫🇮

“The Great Wall of Germany” by #Imagen

Looks like Germany. It also put in the European style houses and roofs on the towers. 🇩🇪

“The Great Wall of Dubai” by #Imagen

To be fair, the original Great Wall also had sections that went through sandy deserts. But here it crafted some local artifacts onto the design of the wall sometimes:

This blending also kind of works for concepts (like “Money”) rather than geographical locations!

Here’s “The Great Wall of Money” by #Imagen to give you some motivation as you look at the value of your stonks and crypto portfolios (cc @wallstreetbets):

Stepping back into the real world, here’s “The Great Wall of London” by #Imagen🇬🇧

Finally, here’s “The Great Wall of Hong Kong” to end this thread. 🧵

#Imagen decided to replace all of the beautiful hiking trails in #HongKong’s country parks with the Great Wall.

I have mixed feelings about it… 🙃

Some failure cases:

“The Great Wall of Sahara Dessert” by #Imagen

Where’s the Great Wall in the Desert?

Other prompts worked though:

“The Great Wall of Ghana” by #Imagen