Wiki Fiction: Personal Grendel

Feb 17, 2025

Personal Grendel

Figure 1. A personal Grendel, by ImageFX.

When I originally introduced Grendels into the Exodemic Fictional Universe, they were the helpers of Interventionists who "lived" on Earth and guided the human species into the future.

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For my story "D*", I make use of the idea that the Asimov Reality was used by both the pek and the bumpha as a "temporary Reality" where telepathic humans could be evolved. Within the Asimov Reality, a human being such as Aymy could be guided through life by a personal Grendel. A personal Grendel is an artificial life-form (a replicoid of a biological Grendel) that exists in the Hierion Domain, but can influence the behavior of people who live in the Hadron Domain of the universe (the world as we know it).

Under the influence of her personal Grendel, Aymy is sometimes unable to explain her own behavior which, when she was young, caused Aymy some confusion, but with experience she came to cherish the feeling of cognitive dissonance that arises from what Aymy thinks of as the actions of her unseen muse, who Aymy has learned to trust.

Figure 2. Cognitive dissonance by ImageFX.

I provided ImageFX with a text prompt about cognitive dissonance and ImageFX generated the image that is shown to the right.

Next, I provided the image shown in Figure 2 to Leonardo as a reference image and got some similar images, one of which showed the girl with her eyes closed.

Figure 3. Automatic writing.

Using those Leonardo-generated images, I provided the cropped image of the face of the girl with closed eyes as a "subject", a full sized portrait format image as the "scene" and my usual text prompt "style" to Whisk.

I was amused when Whisk generated the image that is shown in Figure 3. I then provided Whisk with this "storyboard" description: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a study scene at night. A tired woman with an open notebook illustrated with a technical diagrams on a wooden desk, illuminated by dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting from

Figure 4. Grendel by ImageFX.

what appears to be a single source. She's holding a pen over an open notebook containing technical sketches and diagrams and she is close to falling asleep. A blue sweater, books on dark wooden shelves in the background, shallow depth of field. Nearby is what appears to be the dream vision of the woman. The dream vision is a translucent version of the original woman. Cinematic mood, warm browns contrasting with cool blues. Photorealistic style."

Figure 5. Grendel by Whisk.

Figure 6. Personal Grendel - a tireless source of inspiration - by Whisk.

In the Hierion Domain.

I was surprised when Whisk began making images such as the one shown in Figure 5 where I expected a transparent human figure but got what looks like a transparent holographic display in front of the Grendel.

In Figure 6 the personal Grendel (in the background) is hard at work while the human is falling asleep. As shown to the right, the personal Grendel from Figure 6 seems immersed in holographically projected circuit diagrams.

What form should a personal Grendel take? While biological Grendels are a distinct humanoid species, the Grendel replicoids that serve as personal Grendels can take on any convenient form.

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In my imagination, personal Grendels might adopt an appearance that is quite close to the individual human who they are associated with, even changing their appearance with time so as to mimic aging.

I used the image from Figure 6 as a new "scene" along with an abstract "subject" image with bright red colors (see the image to the left) in an attempt to get Whisk to generate a distinctive border separating the Grendel in the Hierion Domain from the woman in the Hadron Domain.

Figure 7. Personal Grendel inside the Hierion Domain by Whisk.

Problems. I suspect that my description of the scene was becoming too complex for Imagen 3. Here is the updated text prompt:

Figure 8. Problems with Whisk.

"A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a study scene at night. A tired woman with an open notebook illustrated with a technical diagrams on a wooden desk, illuminated by dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting from what appears to be a single source.

Figure 9. Graphs and charts by Whisk.

She's holding a pen over an open notebook containing technical sketches and diagrams and she is close to falling asleep. A blue sweater, books on dark wooden shelves in the background, shallow depth of field. Nearby is what appears to be a floating dream vision of the woman or possibly a ghost. The dream vision is a translucent version of the original woman. Surrounding the dream version of the woman is a brightly colored circular border composed of blocks of red and teal which is subtly incorporated into the scene and which divides the dream vision from reality. The circular border alternates between transparent and opaque and marks the edge of reality and the dream. Cinematic mood, warm browns contrasting with cool blues. Photorealistic style."

The image shown in Figure 8 illustrates some of the problems that Whisk had generating this scene. The text prompt specifies, "She's holding a pen over an open notebook containing technical sketches and diagrams", but Whisk seemed devoted to the idea of plastering circuit diagrams right on top of the Grendel (see the image to the right).

Whisk had the idea that a tired person should rest their head on one of their hands, which often led to Whisk generating a third hand that could continue to write (see Figures 3 and 8).

Figure 10. A very ugly Whisk-generated border dividing the Hadron and Hierion Domains.

Generated by Leonardo.

I continued to make adjustments to the "storyboard" description and Whisk generated Figure 10 when I used this text prompt: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a study scene at night. A tired woman works over an open notebook on a wooden desk, illuminated by dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting from what appears to be a single source. The pages of the notebook are illustrated with technical diagrams. She's holding a pen over the open notebook and she is close to falling asleep. A blue sweater, books on dark wooden shelves in the background, shallow depth of field. Nearby is what appears to be a floating dream vision of the woman or possibly a ghost. The dream vision is a translucent version of the original woman and that ghostly figure is working diligently to craft a new electronic device.

Generated by Leonardo.

Surrounding the dream version of the woman is a brightly colored circular border composed of abstract blocks of red and teal which is subtly incorporated into the scene and which divides the dream vision from reality. The circular border alternates between transparent patches and opaque regions and the border delineates the merging of reality and the dream. The transparent dream vision contrasting with the mundane study scene is all rendered in a crisp photorealistic style".

Generated by Leonardo.

I was not satisfied with the boundary that was visible in Figure 10 separating the Hierion Domain and the Hadron Domain. I asked Claude for help...

Me: "Claude, allow me to explain some of the science fiction story that this AI-generated image is supposed to illustrate. In the story (which is set in the future, the year 3553 C.E.), there is more than one

Generated by Leonardo.

physical domain of the universe that is known. One domain of the universe is what I call the Hadron Domain, which is basically the universe as known to physicists in the year 2025. However, in 3553 C.E., it is known that there is another domain of the physical universe, what I call the Hierion Domain. Hadrons cannot exist in the Hierion Domain, bet there is a family of fundamental particles (called hierions) that can exist in the Hierion Domain. The Hierion Domain is defined by a set of three compactified dimensions. Hierions can form hierion-hierion bonds that are much shorter than chemical bonds. Thus, there can be non-biological artificial life-forms that exist in the Hierion Domain and are composed of hierions. Also, there can be a form of information transfer between the artificial life-forms of the Hierion Domain and humans of the Hadron Domain.

Generated by Leonardo.

That information exchange is facilitated by a nanoscopic endosymbiont that exists inside every human (these endosymbionts were first integrated into the biological life-forms of Earth about 2,000,000,000 years ago by aliens from a distant galaxy). That endosymbiont is composed of hierions and each person's endosymbiont links into that person's brain, allowing for communication between people and artificial life-forms in the Hierion Domain. In the AI-generated image that we (Claude and I) have been developing, the "blue translucent spectral version of the woman" is actually an artificial life-form within the Hierion Domain who functions

Generated by Leonardo.

like a personal assistant for the woman. The woman is only vaguely aware of that artificial life-form, but she can get valuable assistance from the Hierion Domain, such as making "new" scientific discoveries that are passed to her from the helper in the Hierion Domain. The AI-generated image is for readers of the science fiction story, to illustrate the concept of there being an artificial life-form in the Hierion Domain, but the visual depiction is metaphorical, since the artificial life-form is actually nanoscopic and composed of hierions, not conventional matter. Thus, I want the blue spectral part of the AI-generated image to look like it exists in a rip of the conventional fabric of reality, a rip that allows readers to get a look into the Hierion Domain. Thus, I want there to be a subtle border around the blue spectral part of the AI-generated, but not a jarring border."

Generated by Leonardo.

Claude suggested to following new prompt: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a study scene at night in the year 3553 CE. A woman works over an open notebook on a wooden desk, illuminated by dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting from a desk lamp. The pages contain complex technical diagrams. To one side of her, reality appears to fold and ripple like a gossamer curtain, revealing a glimpse into the Hierion Domain. Through

Generated by Whisk.

this subtle distortion in space, we see a luminescent cyan figure, an artificial life-form assistant, manipulating complex hierion-based technology. The border of this interdimensional window is marked by a subtle distortion effect, as if light itself is bending around the intersection of the two domains. A faint lattice of geometric patterns, like a crystalline network, creates an almost invisible bridge between the base of the woman's skull and the artificial life-form, suggesting quantum-level communication through the endosymbiont. This connection appears technological rather than dreamlike, with precise geometric nodes along its path.

Generated by Whisk.

Floating hierion-based technical schematics surround the assistant, their alien geometry hinting at physics beyond conventional matter. The scene maintains a cinematic mood with warm lamp light in our domain contrasting with the cool cyan glow of the Hierion Domain, all rendered in crisp photorealistic style." Using that prompt, Whisk generated the image shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11. Generated by Whisk by using the text prompt suggested by Claude.

Figure 12. Updated personal Grendel, by ImageFX.

I used the following shorter text prompt with Leonardo: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a woman writing on an open notebook on a wooden desk, illuminated by dramatic Chiaroscuro lighting. To one side of her, reality appears to fold and ripple like a gossamer curtain, revealing a glimpse into a parallel reality where we see a luminescent cyan figure manipulating complex technology. This translucent blue

Figure 12. Grendel on the notebook by Whisk.

spectral version is off to one side of the actual woman. The border of this interdimensional window is marked by a subtle distortion effect, as if light itself is bending around the intersection of the two domains. A faint lattice of geometric patterns, like a crystalline network, creates an almost invisible bridge between the base of the woman's skull and the cyan figure which is rendered in crisp photorealistic style."

Generated by Leonardo.

Some of the images that were generated by Leonardo are shown above, on this page and one more is in the image to the right. Sometimes Leonardo includes text in the images it generates. Possibly "OFTT" is a clothing brand. One of the advertised uses for Leonardo is for assisting with image creation for people working in the fashion industry.

Using the image from Figure 11 as a new "scene" reference image with Whisk, the images in Figures 12 and 13 were generated. For Figure 12, the Grendel is standing on the notebook and the woman is working on an electronics project. For the image in Figure 13, I manually re-tinted the window (originally the outside world was blue).

Figure 13. Generated by Whisk, manual window tint.

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I used the image from Figure 13 as a new "scene" Whisk reference image and then the image shown in Figure 14 was generated by Whisk. The Grendel in Figure 14 was generated by WOMBO Dream and manually pasted into the Whisk-generated scene, covering up the Whisk-generated Grendel that was not very life-like and not similar the "subject" image that I had provided (see the image to the left). I was fairly satisfied by the image in Figure 14, which included a subtle link (a network of blue dots) between the Grendel and the head of the girl.

This was the text prompt for Mr. Wombo: "A stunningly detailed, full color, photorealistic rendering of a very young Meg Ryan depicted as a translucent glass statue, Meg Ryan is fifteen years old, Meg Ryan has long blond hair, Meg Ryan is cute, photo-realistic depiction of Meg Ryan as a very pretty girl, Meg Ryan happy, Meg Ryan is smiling, Meg Ryan is very tall and slim".