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AI: Colorizations

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This feels like something from the Twilight Zone.
AI Painted The Players in the Miami Dolphins 73 colors.
AI generated, “Young Girl, Not Reading.”

Not only can an AI take a black & white, pen & ink drawing and colorize it, but it can also go in the opposite direction, and take a full color photo and make a good looking pen & ink drawing. It can generate an image from your imagination. For instance, “the Young Girl Reading,” is a classic piece of art. I asked an AI to create an image of her “not reading, and standing looking at the audience.” I think this is an excellent rendition of “the Young Girl Not Reading.” And how about political fantasy. Build the Wall, tall & wide & electrified. Well, my thought was that you could never build it high enough that Santa and his reindeer could not fly over it. And note that Santa is using both English and Spanish to direct his reindeer.

And what about the thought that as Santa and his reindeer were flying over Venezuela, they were mistakenly taken to be drug runners and shot down. And of course the “double tap” order was devastating to the two survivors holding on to the sleigh, to the last.

And above are examples of how an AI can convert a full color image into a nice pen & ink drawing. I knew it was possible when I saw the old Southern plantation home. The bowl of olives were distinctive. I was actually walking past a poster at the library and took a picture of it. The AI easily digitized the baby polar bear, the baby penguin and the snowman. And then later I was looking through a cookbook, and realized I could take a picture of a bowl or a stack of pans and have the AI removed the background. I could have even asked it to change the colors of each pot.

And just now I had some fun with a quote from the movie, Tombstone, with Kurt Russell and “the late” Val Kilmer. “I’m your huckleberry.” Now, I’ve been told that huckleberry is another name for a blueberry, so…

Huckleberry Hound
Like Wyatt & Doc, Russell & Kilmer, Ice Cream and Huckleberry Pie. I’m your Huckleberry… Pie.
“No, I’m your Huckleberry.”

For years my favorite Birthday Cake was blueberry pie. I haven’t had either in quite a while, but know I could go to Walmart today and probably buy one of those small one serving blueberry pies for less than $2. Although I haven’t checked their price in a couple of years.

Hey, Elvis! You eyeing my pie?
The Huckleberry Pie I can no longer eat, from Walmart.
Well, it does look tasty.