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So fun as always. I used Gemini & igloo as my architectural structure. Ironically, the image is struggled most w/ was ^Goolgle^. First it Googled igloo then when I gave it more info, it just put a Google office inside an igloo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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That's hilarious! I love how LLMs and diffusion models sometimes go off the rails in unpredictable ways like that.

But if you want the best of Google's Imagen 3, I recommend going directly to https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx

It actually did a pretty funky job of "Googie igloo":

https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx/78di7hsp70000

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Those are rad! I think you're getting pretty good at this stuff - go figure, of course, but I think you also have a good eye for the aesthetic.

I hadn't thought about using architectural style as a prompt until just now, but it's a great idea.

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I can't take much credit for any advanced prompting here, since a simple "biomorphic [blank]" is enough to get those images.

But I'll go ahead and take all the credit for picking out the 5 most kick-ass styles and then curating the resulting images to showcase the most impressive ones.

Let me know how it goes for you with those architectural styles. Google Imagen 3 is pretty fun for this, too!

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I will agree that selecting which styles to use is very important. People often overlook that sort of thing when they're talking about art, but I think it goes into the same category as composition - a good photographer has an eye for what will make a good image, whereas a painter has to have an eye and that technical painting skill... I think lots of folks try to draw some creative line in the sand, but the reality is that it's a process, and all of the various steps in creating art matter.

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I know you didn’t ask, but I would choose to live with my hive in the 2nd from the end

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The biomorphic mansion? Hellz yeah. I'd even settle for the biomorphic forest hut.

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