Fun on Tar'tron

Water nymph by DALL-E.

 This is the second of two blog posts featuring some AI-generated science fiction book cover images (see Part 1 of this series). I've been experimenting with both DALL-E and Wombo Dream to help make illustrations for the Mosy Saga. I'm favorably impressed with the ability of DALL-E generate interesting images from text prompts. The image to the right was generated by Mr. Wombo for this text prompt: "high resolution movie still from the film 'Fantasy Creatures' showing a very tall and thin water nymph magically rising from the waters of a spring, dressed Victoria's Secret style, seen from the side".

That water fall is pretty nice, but not what I had in mind when I was imagining a spring.

Boots? Why Boots?

 Boots. I mentioned in my previous blog post that Mr. Wombo likes to dress women in boots. An example is shown to the left. Mr. Wombo generated a whole series of images like this one in which there was a seemingly flat and placid pool of river water and the woman's boots were positioned on top of the water as if it was a solid floor. At least this image did not look like she was walking on water.

Bare feet make more sense.

I was able to force Mr. Wombo to create some images that were similar the one with boots that is shown to the left, but with her having taken off the boots (see the image to the right). This makes more sense for this scene, even if it might disappoint Mr. Wombo to have to deal with the intricacies of human feet and toes.

Mr. Wombo would alternate between having this human figure sometimes look into the camera or, alternatively, look off to the side away from the camera. What is she looking at?

G1. A river Grendel. Who needs feet?

 Grendels.
I added a second humanoid figure to this river scene, what I imagine to be a Grendel. There were two significantly different ways that Mr. Wombo tried to insert a Grendel into this scene using the same reference image. The first version, with the Grendel partially submerged, is shown in the image to the left.

G2. Another river Grendel.

The second way that Mr. Wombo found to include a Grendel in this scene is shown in the image to the right; here the Grendel seems to be walking on water. I imagine that Grendels evolved on a "water world" and prefer to be in aquatic environments while while acting as Interventionist agents either on the planet Tar'tron or on Earth.

For the image to the right, I'm not sure what she is holding in her hands. Maybe the Grendel is sharing some advanced technology such as a vial of hair nanites.

An alien with four arms.

 Four Arms. One of the fun features of Wombo Dream is that it can suddenly produce people with four arms. In this case, I used this text prompt: "high resolution movie still of Katrine De Candole and Elle Macpherson in the adventure film “Four Armed Aliens”, Katrine De Candole is twenty years old, Katrine De Candole is a very tall alien with four arms, Katrine De Candole is kneeling, dressed Victoria's Secret style in silk, Katrine De Candole has blond hair, spaceship interior background".

hairy arms

For this sort of unusual anatomy (people with four arms, see Figure 16), sometimes Mr. Wombo can't decide if it should generate arms or hair (compare the image shown to the right to the image above). In the image shown to the right, her top two hands were transformed into hair by Mr. Wombo.

Synym cross-country running.

I've previously described the challenges of trying to force Mr. Wombo into showing human figures who are doing something interesting. Mr. Wombo prefers to show women standing around like statues. 

In my imagination, while living on Tar'tron, Synym is quite physically active. At school, she spends much of her time playing sports and engaged in activities such as running (see the image to the left). I'm quite satisfied with the hilly terrain and running trail that Mr. Wombo devised.

Interesting activities of the young and horny.

Figure 7. "Try it, you'll like it. It sucks!"

Synym likes doing things the old fashioned way, so she is often skeptical when Thylon suggests new innovations (see Figure 7. Figures 1-6 are in the previous blog post of this series).

As described in Part 4 of the Mosy Saga, eventually Synym and Thylon establish a good working relationship with Qyp the Ek'col. During his life on Tar'tron, Qyp is able to learn the mind patterns of Synym and Thylon. When a clone of Qyp (Zule) is on Earth, he can draw upon that previous familiarity with their mind patterns.

Thylon (right) and her daughter.

While living on Tar'tron, both Synym and Thylon have children who are fathered by Qyp.

Figure 8. Thylon's cloned daughter.

 Figure 8 is a depiction of another one of Thylon's children on Tar'tron. The available reproductive technology can also be used to allow residents of Tar'tron to practice reproductive cloning. 

 The Clones of Tar'tron. The somatic cells of individuals could be transformed in gametes (either sperm or eggs) and combined in vitro. This allowed Thylon to have a child who was essentially a clone of herself.

A thoughtful gift. "Show me how it works."

 Toyland.  The image to the left shows a scene on Tar'tron in which one of Thylon's daughters had given a thoughtful gift to her little sister.

The scene to the left originally had only two human figures, but Mr. Wombo added the mother to the left side of the image. Maybe Mr. Wombo thought that the two daughters needed some adult supervision.

Too old for dolls.

The scene that is shown to the right is on a similar theme. One of Thylon's daughters has been busy modifying her doll so as to turn it into a better toy. The older daughter has been wondering why her little sister has been so happy lately and discovers the reason. She tells their mother, "We really need to find her a boy friend."

Figure 9. The next generation.

 Figure 9 shows one of Thylon's children with Synym.

 Cover Images. I like to imagine the planet Tar'tron as being a convenient place to train Interventionist agents in the Ekcolir Reality. The trainers (such as Caz) have very sophisticated technology available to them, but when training agents for missions on Earth, their exposure to technologies such as nanites must be limited and carefully constrained.

Thylon and Synym on Tar'tron.

For the image to the right I used this text prompt: "high resolution movie still of Megan Fox and Elle Macpherson in the science fiction film “Future Science”, Megan Fox is twenty five years old, Elle Macpherson is blond, Megan Fox and Elle Macpherson are very tall and slim, dressed Victoria's Secret style in silk, Megan Fox is holding her arms out, futuristic laser physics laboratory in the background".

Mr. Wombo has quite definite opinions about how to create an image for a science fiction book cover. Is that supposed to be a depiction of a rocket launch? I have no idea. Sadly, none of the imaginary book covers shown in this blog post is really what I'm looking for to illustrate the Mosy Saga.

Synym the tutor.

After leaving school, both Synym and Thylon took seriously the task of passing on their knowledge of sexplay to the next generation. Sexual customs on Tar'tron did not include the existence of any barriers between sex partners of different ages.

Thylon, Synym and a viewer.

Going along with a general disregard for privacy and no barriers between age groups, it was common for lovers to have "viewers" present during sexplay sessions: others (often young) who just wanted to watch two experienced sex partners having a delightful time.

"I can't wait any longer..."

The image to the left depicts a group of three students waiting at the designated rendezvous location for the arrival of three playmates. In many such cases, the three boys might have started their own sexplay session and won't be arriving. The three waiters would not be overly concerned and would simply wait a polite time period and then start generating orgasms for each-other.

Waiting for Synym

The image to the right is another depiction of two lovers waiting for a third guest who was invited to the sexplay session. Mr. Wombo is quite creative when told to make a spaceship interior for the background. Mr. Wombo seems to have a preference for making a window that shows a desert landscape.

In my imagination, residents of Tar'tron during the Ekcolir Reality such as Synym and Thylon were able to make trips into outer space, including visits to low-gravity resorts in orbit around Tar'tron. We'll leave the microgravity sexplay of Synym and Thylon to the imagination.

Synym and Thylon.

Sometimes Synym and Thylon would simply be struck by the wonder of how lucky they were to have each-other as friends and lovers and Tar'tron. The image to the left shows the trouble that Mr. Wombo has in trying to deal with multiple hands that are close to each-other.

It is a new toy day. "Let's try this one first..."

Here is one more image depicting the tendency for Synym and Thylon to experiment during their school years (image to the right). Poor Mr. Wombo had serious trouble trying to make that planet have a circular profile. But maybe it is not actually a natural moon or planet. Maybe it is an artificial construct in orbit around Tar'tron. It would be great if these AI-image generators could explain themselves.

Having taken readers off to the planet Tar'tron for Part 4 of the Mosy Saga, I'll resist the temptation to have additional chapters about the consequences of having trained Synym and Thylon on that world in advance of their Interventionist mission to Earth.

The apes of Tar'tron.

However, the cover image shown to the left reveals the fact that part of Thylon's training on Tar'tron involved work with non-human animals. Caz was involved with a human devolution project, an attempt to devise a human variant that could live "in the wild" without need for cities and without putting much stress on the natural environment of a planet.

On Earth, Thylon's clone, Tara, was to have a major role in trying to instill a culture of nature conservancy among the technologically developing people of ancient Anatolia. Also, on Earth Tara needed to have no resistance to the idea of having a sexual relationship with a non-human animal (horses, in that case). 

As part of the devolution project, many human-ape hybrids and non-human ape variants were constructed by genetic engineering on Tar'tron. While still in school, Thylon became involved with a study of the many ape species of Tar'tron.

Thylon and friends.

Some of the non-human apes of Tar'tron had telepathic abilities and were able to communicate with Thylon. Thylon became involved with efforts to provide health care to the jungle-dwelling apes of Tar'tron. The image to the right illustrates the fact that some of the younger apes came to trust Thylon and they became friends with the children of Thylon.

Thylon's daughter, Plymek.

Thylon's children had no qualms about maintaining close relationships with the apes of Tar'tron. It was inevitable that they would experiment sexually with the apes who they grew up with. Eventually, in her later years, Thylon herself grew comfortable with the idea of having non-human lovers.

Thylon's daughter, Plymek became a trained physician and, like Thylon, provided health care to the apes of Tar'tron who lived "in the wild". Plymek and her sisters also used their telepathic abilities to help transfer knowledge and technology to the jungle-dwelling apes of Tar'tron. One of the more popular technology-sharing projects involved sex toys.

Ape fertility studies.

Plymek discovered that the apes of Tar'tron had the same number of chromosomes as do humans. In fact, humans and the apes of Tar'tron were inter-fertile, a fact that Caz had never tried to explain to Thylon. This was another situation in which Caz wisely allowed her test subject (Thylon) to gradually become comfortable living among the non-human apes before revealing the full scope of Caz's devolution project.  

Plymek and her sisters initiated a project aimed at amplifying the genetic diversity of the apes of Tar'tron with the goal of endowing the apes with a capacity to use human language. Since Caz did not allow the descendants of Thylon to have access to genetic engineering technology, the genetic modifications achieved by Plymek and her family were all accomplished the old fashioned way, often by collecting gametes in the wild and selecting for desirable ape-human hybrid embryos in the laboratory. 

Technologically advanced apes.

Eventually, after many generations, the descendants of Thylon managed to craft speaking ape variants that also had interesting telepathic abilities and more human-like body forms.

Human-ape hybrid.

The technologically advanced apes of Tar'tron were rather amazed when they started having human-ape hybrid children who could speak human languages.

Mr. Wombo had a very hard time creating images of human-ape hybrids. The AI algorithm could either generate images of human children or small non-humans, but nothing that actually looked like a hybrid. For the image shown to the right, the baby's head was taken from on AI-generated image and pasted onto the body of a second image.

Synym - unable to notice a Grendel

 Mysteries of Tar'tron. Also in the wilds of Tar'tron was a population of Grendels who worked with Caz on the human devolution project. Most humans who went into the wild-lands never became aware of the Grendels. However, because of her telepathic abilities, Thylon eventually learned to notice when a Grendel was nearby. However, the Grendels were tricksters and seldom presented their true physical form to humans.

The image to the left shows a river Grendel who is using a physical form that is significantly smaller than what is shown in figures G1 and G2, above, towards the beginning of this blog post. 

While generating these river scenes, it sometimes felt as if Mr. Wombo seeks out ways to avoid having to include hands and feet in the AI-generated images, which is a good strategy considering how bad Mr. Wombo is at depicting realistic limbs.

Thylon in telepathic contact with a Grendel.

While Thylon and her descendants worked on the human devolution project, they were constantly aided and protected by the Grendels. Thylon's interactions with Grendels on Tar'tron was useful training in advance of her mission to Earth where she also had contacts with the Grendels of Earth.

The main base and teleportation terminal of the Grendels on Earth was in the Black Sea near the site of the ancient city of Phasi, but they also operated out of the Euphrates river (then known as the Yph, see map) in Norsum during the time when Thylon's clone, Tara, was living in Norsun. When the Buld Reality was being crafted, there were no Overseers watching over Earth, so the Grendels could be quite active in helping Tara with her problems.

Alien artifact.

 Alien Artifacts. I've never previously wondered if the star system for the planet Tar'tron might possibly have other planets besides Tar'tron. The idea that Thylon might have a space car for her use forced me to begin imagining if there was a nearby planet that she could visit.

The image to the left shows a scene generated by Mr. Wombo for the text prompt: "high resolution movie still of Katrine De Candole and Meg Ryan in the science fiction film "Alien Artifact", dressed Victoria's Secret style, Katrine De Candole is kneeling beside an alien artifact, Meg Ryan is blond, a glowing alien artifact. Meg Ryan is standing behind the alien artifact, stars and moon in the night sky background". This could be a scene on a close-to-habitable planet close to Tar'tron where the surface is littered with alien artifacts.

Figure 10. Synym and one
of her daughters during
a play date with a friend.

 Mysteries of Mr. Wombo. I'll end this blog post with Figure 10 (image to the right). One of the mysteries of Mr. Wombo is how the different "styles" have quite different abilities to generate images of people at various ages. Some of the Wombo Dream styles are much more able to alter the apparent age of a human figure upon request. It can take a lot of trial and error experimentation to find a way to get Mr. Wombo to generate an image that depicts a person at the desired age. 

By my count there are now well over 110 image-generating "styles" available for Wombo Dream. I have to wonder, when will this proliferation of "styles" end? Most of them cannot generate a sensible human figure and I ignore them. For generating human figures, I'm currently getting the most mileage out of "Dreamland v2", "Dreamland v3" and "Nightly v2".

Next: more AI-generated science fiction story illustrations.

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