Secret Santa
I recently signed up to be part of the Secret Santa that my company was sponsoring. Since it’s a large company with a global footprint, employees are scattered all over the world. I was assigned to someone in Boston who I had never met before. Thankfully, as part of the sign-up process, you had to provide your likes and dislikes. I received her likes and dislikes in an email:
Things they like:
“Books (usually fiction, tbh I’ll read almost anything), fancy black teas, chocolate. My hobbies include reading, ballet, jogging, cooking, and pilates. I like cats and cozy sweaters and hot chocolate with extra marshmallows. I’m not a big make-up person, but I do like painting my nails.”
Things they don’t like:
“No allergies. I don’t like pickles? And anchovies? Please don’t ship anchovies, that won’t end well for anyone.”
Well I can certainly work with this! Since I recently started experimenting with generative image tools, I experimented with just plugging her likes into the system to see what kind of results I would get. After all, what do you buy someone that you know nothing about?
Text Prompt
I took one of her sentences and used that as my prompt for the artificial intelligence generative art engine.
“I like cats and cozy sweaters and reading books and hot chocolate with extra marshmallows ”
This generated some fabulous results. I generated hundreds of images until I found the look I found most aesthetically pleasing. And that ended up being this one here:
This one was super close to the look I was going for, but I didn’t like the fuzzy pillows that were generated to the left of the cat.
I’m not sure what they are supposed to be, but since my gift recipient also likes reading, I decided it would be better to have a stack of books there instead.
Also, the marshmallows that were generated didn’t really look like marshmallows. Those could stand to be tweaked as well.
I was able to generate some books that I liked, but I didn’t like anything else about the picture. So I took the books and put them into the other layout.
Final Image
Extra Marshmallows
Everyone I show this picture to absolutely adores it. If you love it as much as us, you can own one yourself, use the link below to head over to our shop and grab one for your wall.
