Hair Nanites

Generated by Mr. Wombo.

 Back in early 2023, when I was beginning to experiment with generative AI, I had a blog post called "The Adventures of Japeth and Helyn" in which I jokingly mentioned the topic of hair nanites: "Bard, a large language model who worked for Victoria's Secret and had become famous for designing hair nanites that had revolutionized the fashion industry". At that time, the Bard Large Language Model did not really take seriously my attempt to introduce hair nanites into the science fiction story that we were collaboratively writing.

 Illustrating Science Fiction Stories. Here in this blog post (below) I return to the science fiction challenge of creating visual depictions of hair nanites and I put Whisk to the challenge of finding a way to make the actions of invisibly small nanites visible in a way that is suitable for illustrating a science fiction story. 

femtobots and zeptites
Text manually added.

Whisk is a vastly more sophisticated text-to-image system than what was available to me two years ago. Also, I like to think that I have gotten better at constructing text prompts. I've also begun making use of Large Language Models like Claude to help me craft better text prompts. The two AI-generated images that are shown above ↑ on this page and to the left  ← were both generated by WOMBO Dream.

 Hair Nanites. Imagine that nanotechnology can be used to produce artificial hair. After the invention of hair nanites, everyone on Earth can have incredibly big hair that not only looks fantastic and feels amazingly soft, but also is constantly altering its shape so as to produce a mesmerizing, ever-shifting swirl of sparkling artificial hair shafts. The nanorobotic components of artificial hair can be programmed by trained nanite programmers. Hair nanites are nanoscopic machines that follow their programming and create beautiful hair.

Whisk-generated: The text prompt included, "many tiny LED lit buttons". Tyhry,
Aymy and Elyrix are onboard Sedrover and searching for the entrance to Eternity.

For my science fiction stories set in the Exodemic Fictional Universe, the "nanorobotic components" of hair nanites can be either femtobots or zeptites. In 2023, hair nanites were on my mind because I imagined that Tyhry had a special interest in hair nanites.

Whisk library images for April 19th, 2025. Some of these Whisk-generated images are shown in detail, below.

Whisk library images for April 13th, 2025. Older Whisk-generated images are at this blog page.

Mr. Wombo brushing hair.

In my science fiction stories such as The Nanite Smuggler, Tyhry is depicted as trying to obtain programmable femtobots from aliens. Femtobots are composed of hierions, a special type of matter that is only just becoming known to Earthlings during the time period when Tyhry grows up on Earth (The Nanite Smuggler takes place in the year 2040 when Tyhry is about twenty years old). One of the characters in The Nanite Smuggler is Manny the bumpha. Manny has "deployed" Tyhry on Earth and we can think of Tyhry as being the tool that Manny uses to introduce advanced alien nanotechnology to Earth. Tyhry is trained by Manny in the art of femtobot programming. From an early age Tyhry was impressed by Manny's artificial hair, which is a form of nanotechnology. Manny the bumpha has access to even more sophisticated nanotechnology, zeptites, a form of artificial life composed of sedrons. Bumpha zeptite technology can be traced back billions of years to the Hua.

DreamUp hair brushing. "Give me a hand."

 Visual Depictions of the Invisible. How can artists make visual depictions of something that is invisible? I've long struggled with the challenge of visually depicting invisibly small nanites in illustrations for my science fiction stories.

Recently, while making AI-generated images of alien creatures, I whimsically asked for an image depicting someone brushing the hair of a furry alien. 

Gencraft hair brushing. "I can't watch!"

I was impressed by how much text-to-image systems like Whisk struggled to make images depicting the brushing of hair (see examples here). I expected that it would be easy for text-to-image software to make reasonable visual depictions of hair brushing. I was surprised to learn how much the text-to-image systems such as WOMBO Dream, DreamUp, Gencraft, and Leonardo can struggle to generate sensible images of hair brushing.

Figure 1. Whisk-generated hair brushing scene. Disclaimer: "No hair was actually brushed. We use hair nanites!"

L1. Leonardo's magic flying hair brush.

 I Don't Do Hair Brushing. In the case of Leonardo, it was quite difficult to get an AI-generated image in which actual hair brushing was depicted. Leonardo seems to prefer to make images of women who are just standing around looking cute. In the image that is shown to the right, each woman is actually holding a hair brush in her hand, but there is another hair brush just floating mysteriously in midair. 

For these Whisk (Figure 1, above) and Leonardo-generated images, I included in the text prompt: "a futuristic living room fireplace and burning fire in the background".

L2. Leonardo phones home. Click image to enlarge.

Many other Leonardo-generated images did not even include a hair brush. In the image that is shown to the left, there is what looks more like a cell phone being held close to her hair, but no brush. Also, for L2, the idea of there being a fireplace in the background seems to have been forgotten by Leonardo.

For these four Leonardo-generated images (L1 - L4) a wide range of hair brushing styles was on display. In the Leonardo-generated image that is shown below (L3), each of the two women are holding a brush, but there is no indication that there will be any hair brushing accomplished, unless it is brushing their eye lashes. The fireplace has returned, but maybe these two ladies have better things to do than brush hair.

L3. Leonardo: better things to do than brush.

 My text prompt included, "one woman is brushing the hair of another woman while standing behind her", so maybe the word "behind" was interpreted by Leonardo as a request to show the two women in L3 from behind. 

L4a. Mystery object.

My text prompt did not specify how the women should be dressed, so the text-to-image software was free to "decide" on what type of clothing to include. 

For the image below (L4), Leonardo did not bother with clothing.

L4. Leonardo's anti-gravity hair.

 I can't view AI-generated images like the one shown in L4 without thinking about hair nanites and anti-gravity hierions. I suppose the Leonardo training set has images of women who have long hair that is being blown around by fans.

Figure 2. An alien
by Mr. Wombo.

The image shown to the left in L4 was slightly modified by me. I provided Mr. Wombo with the image shown in L4a as a reference image and this text prompt: "a tall and very slender alien creature, the alien creature has two short fat legs, glowing furnace light in the background". The mysterious object shown in L4a was in the original Leonardo-generated image. Mr. Wombo made the image in Figure 2.

Figure 3. Hair brushing by ImageFX.

 Synapex Hair. My understanding is that Whisk originally made use of the same image generating software as did ImageFX. However, the Whisk user interface recently changed and now ImageFX does not reproducibly make the same kinds of images as does Whisk. The image shown in Figure 3 (to the left) is typical of the results generated by ImageFX using the same text prompt that was used by Whisk to generate Figure 1.  ImageFX preferred to add a third woman to this scene: seated and having her hair brushed. In Figure 3, the hair of the seated woman seems continuous with the hair of the standing woman. 

New Whisk user interface (Now with animation, mid-April 2025). Compare to the old interface shown here.

Figure 4. Tyhry on Sedrover.

The image shown Figure 4 in was created as a collaborative effort by ImageFX (spaceship interior), Whisk (the woman brushing) and Mr. Wombo (her face). I imagine this as a depiction of Tyhry on the interstellar spaceship Sedrover. However, the question arises: if Tyhry routinely uses hair nanites, then why would she need to brush her hair?

In my science fiction story "D*", Tyhry discovers an analogue of herself who lived in the Asimov Reality (Tyna). As a telepathic tryp'At, Tyhry is powerfully attracted to Tyna. Tyhry brings a replicoid copy of Tyna into the Ekcolir Reality. In my imagination, Tyhry an Tyna might simply like playing with each-others hair.

Generated by Leonardo. Tyhry and Tyna playing with their hair.

Generated by Leonardo. Tyhry and Tyna want to comb.

Figure 5. Generated by Leonardo. Click image to enlarge.

I can't look at images such as the one in Figure 3 (above) without imagining the possibility that hair could be used to form synapex links between the brains of two individuals. I slightly modified the Leonardo-generated image shown in Figure 5 so as to try to make the "comb" she is holding look like a futuristic device that might be able to form a synapex linkage using their hair.

Figure 6. Femtobot re-programming.
Tyhry's (left) original Leonardo-generated face was
re-generated by Mr. Wombo and pasted into this image.

 Body Modification. In "D*", Tyhry and Tyna explore how to use programmable femtobots to alter the form of Tyna's body. In the original Leonardo-generated version of the image that is shown in Figure 6, Tyhry was holding a plain black rod in her hand and Tyna's breast lacked any hint of a nipple. I modified the image to provide Tyhry with a hand-held device that is using programmed femtobots to alter Tyna's body.

Marda's femtobot experiment.

In some of the Leonardo-generated images, there were several combs and brushes that were not being used. For the image that is shown below in Figure 7, I had Mr. Wombo convert the Leonardo-generated brushes into futuristic hand-held femtobot programming devices. In my imagination, this could be a scene in which Tyhry and two replicoid copies of Tyna are trying to program femtobots and re-model the anatomical features of Tyna. Leonardo often goes to extremes with women's lips, fattening them up and painting them with the most hideous red color imaginable. For the image that is shown in Figure 7, I tried to remove the red from their lips.

Figure 7. Tyhry and two Tyna replicoids with hand-held devices used for programming femtobots.

The image to the right was generated by Mr. Wombo while I was generating futuristic hand-held devices.

 I consulted with Claude about the difficulty I had getting Leonardo to generate sensible images of hair brushing.

Leonardo-generated image provided to Claude.

Me: Claude, examine the AI-generated image that I just uploaded. This image was generated using the following text prompt: "Women with long blond hair who are holding hair brushes in their hands, the women brush their long blond hair. One woman is brushing the hair of another woman. The other woman is brushing her own hair. A hot summer evening night background under moonlight."  The AI-

Generated by ImageFX with Claude's text prompt.

 generated images usually fail to show any actual hair brushing. Often there are hair brushes in the AI-generated image, but they are not in contact with hair. Claude, suggest an improved text prompt that is more likely to result in an AI-generated image that looks like a realistic depiction of hair being brushed.

Claude: I can see the image shows three individuals with long blonde hair in warm,

Leonardo-generated with Claude's text prompt.

  orange lighting with what appears to be a dark background and a light source that could be the moon. Two of them are holding what look like hair brushes, but as you pointed out, no actual hair brushing is taking place - the brushes aren't making contact with anyone's hair. To create a more realistic hair brushing scene, I'd suggest this improved prompt: "Close-up of women with long blonde hair actively brushing hair, showing the brush bristles

Whisk-generated with Claude's text prompt.

 in direct contact with and pulling through strands of hair. One woman is mid-stroke brushing another woman's hair, with visible tension as the brush passes through the hair. Another woman is brushing her own hair, with her arm positioned naturally for self-grooming. Set during golden hour with warm backlighting highlighting individual strands of hair being pulled by the brushes. Natural poses with realistic arm positioning for hair

Figure 7.  Whisk-generated hair spray.

 brushing motions. Moonlit summer evening in the background." Key improvements: (1) Specifies "mid-stroke" and "bristles in direct contact with hair", (2) Mentions "visible tension" as the brush pulls through hair, (3) Describes the specific arm positioning needed for realistic brushing, (4) Emphasizes highlighting of individual strands being pulled by brushes, (5) Maintains your desired setting and atmosphere.

Figure 8. Femtobot experiment. Click to enlarge.
The experimental application of hair nanites.

Claude's suggested prompt (above) worked fairly well with ImageFX and Whisk, but Leonardo still struggled to show actual hair brushing. 

My true interest is in hair nanites, not hair brushing, so I requested, "A woman holding a spray bottle on one hand and a hair brush in her other hand". Whisk then generated images such as the one shown above in Figure 7.

Figure 9. Hair modifying femtobots.

I modified Figure 7 by having WOMBO Dream make some futuristic hand-held devices that I pasted into the original image to make Figure 8.

For the image that is shown to the right (Figure 9) I began with a Leonardo-generated image in which Tyhry was holding a handle and added a futuristic hand-held device. Then I tried to make it look like a swarm of femtobots were migrating out of the device and into Tyna's hair.

For my science fiction stories such as "D*", I depict human variants including the Asterothropes and the tryp'At as having pheromone-like bodily secretions (such as oxypathin) that can enhance telepathic abilities. I modified one of the Leonardo-generated images in which Tyna had a protruding tongue as shown below in Figure 10.

Figure 10. Text and tube added manually.

When I was having Mr. Wombo make the stream of femtobots for Figure 9, the image that is shown below in Figure 11 was generated.

Figure 11. Generated by Mr. Wombo.

The remaining images in this blog post (below) are "womboizations" of "hair nanite" images that were originally generated by Leonardo or Whisk. 

I used this prompt for having WOMBO Dream make HiTek™ hand-held devices: "photorealistic rendering a futuristic fractal complex electronic device with tiny embedded LED lights and circuits, the device is held in the small hands of a woman. A cloud of sparkling multi-colored mist droplets emerges from the device and flows into a woman’s beautiful blond hair".

Figure 12. The original Leonardo-generated hair brush was transformed into femtobots and a nanite probe.

Figure 13. The original Leonardo-generated brushes were transformed into nanite probes.

Figure 14. Two of the nanite probes from Figure 13 and a WOMBO Dream hair nanites bonus image (right).

Figure 15. This Whisk-generated image was "womboized" to insert the hand-held hair nanite application devices.

Figure 16. This Whisk-generated image was "womboized" to insert a new face for Elyrix the Grendel, the nanite applicator, a better face for Tyhry and nanites being added to Tyhry's hair by the cat-like Felydyan.

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Rides On Aliens

Figure 1. Marda rides with an alien. Generated by Whisk.

 In my previous blog post, I experimented with AI-generated images of people sitting on the backs of alien quadrupedal creatures. The Leonardo text-to-image software spontaneously generated an image of what looked like a humanoid alien.

 Collaboration. Using that Leonardo-generated alien humanoid, I provided it as a reference image for Mr. Wombo and generated some alternative humanoid aliens. Then I used one of those images of an alien humanoid with Whisk and generated images such as the one that is shown in Figure 1.

Whisk storyboard images from April 12th 2025. Some of these images are shown below on this blog page.

A full-sized image of one of these Whisk-generated storyboard images is shown here. Click image to enlarge.

There are some videos of Marda on the backs of alien creatures at the blog post called "Back in Time".

Some Whisk Animate-generated videos of this pink hover car scene are shown at this blog page.

Older (January 3rd to April 6th 2025) Whisk-generated images from the Whisk library are at this blog page.

Figure 2. Marda and Tyhry ride on alien creatures.

In my previous blog post there are Leonardo-generated images of people riding on dinosaur-like aliens. I was curious to see the default type of aliens that Leonardo would generate if provided with a more ambiguous text prompt: "Three women riding reptilian alien creatures across a sandy desert on a science fiction exoplanet. Three slender, tall, women with wild flowing hair, ride on large, teal-colored reptilian creatures resembling dinosaurs across a light brown, sandy desert landscape. The first woman, with luminous blue eyes sits atop one creature. 

Figure 3. Elyrix, Tyhry and Marda.
Click these images to enlarge.

 The second woman, with bright blue eyes and long dark hair, rides another alien creature. The third woman, with amber eyes and a light-colored lace dress, rides a third creature.  The alien creatures are teal, with textured skin, and run across a flat desert under a large, pale yellow-orange moon. Rolling sand dunes and a pale sky form the background. The overall style is detailed, emphasizing depth through shadow and highlighting the women. The color palette emphasizes sparkles and glitters in the women's clothing. Low evening light just after sunset".

Figure 4. "Tyna, Tyhry and
Elyrix Ride" by Mr. Wombo.

This new text prompt (above) allowed Leonardo to make smaller, less intimidating alien creatures as shown in Figures 2 and 3. In these two images, I used Mr. Wombo to provide the riders with faces that better match the appearances of Elyrix, Tyhry and Marda as I imagine them.

The image that is shown in Figure 4 was completely generated by WOMBO Dream when using as a reference image one of the images that had been generated by Leonardo. In my mind, I think of this collaborative process where one text-to-image system generates an image and then Mr. Wombo completely re-does the image to craft a new version as 'Womboization'. I liked the greater diversity of appearances for the alien creatures that could be generated by Mr. Wombo.

Figure 5. Tyna & Tyhry & Anthony.

 Womboized. Some of the Leonardo-generated images included a male figure towards the back right of the scene in addition to the women. The image to the right (in Figure 5) includes Anthony along with Tyna and Tyhry who are sharing the back of an alien creature. The beast being ridden by Elyrix in Figure 4 and by Anthony in Figure 5 is not clearly shown, but it was copied from Figure 5 to Figure 4 in order to cover up a poorly generated animal that was originally in Figure 4.

 Alien Adventures. Many of these images that were generated by Mr. Wombo had what looked like an urban setting in the AI-generated background. In Figure 6 (below), Tyna and Tyhry are riding on one alien creature and Marda is in the background riding on another creature. Apparently they are riding through an alien city on a distant exoplanet.

Figure 6. In the alien city.

Figure 7. The Two Tynas.

 For Figure 7 I added some text to convert the AI-generated image into a book cover. In my science fiction story "D*", Tyhry extracts two copies of Tyna from the Asimov Reality Simulation.

Shown below in Figure 8 is the the original Leonardo-generated image that was used as the reference image for Figures 4 - 7.   

The Leonardo-generated images are not very high resolution and the faces of the women tend to look rather blurry as generated by Leonardo (see Figure 8, below).

Figure 8. Original Leonardo-generated reference image.

As seen in Figure 8, Leonardo sometimes took quite seriously the idea that the alien creatures should have interesting eyes, seemingly borrowing from the text prompt the mention of "luminous blue eyes" and "bright blue eyes" that were intended as descriptions of the women.  

Original scale.

There is no evidence that Leonardo tried to include actual blue in the eyes of the women in Figure 8, but there was an effort to make "sparkles and glitters in the women's clothing". In some of the images generated by Mr. Wombo, the alien creatures seemed to have hair. I returned to Whisk and specified "mammal-like alien creatures". In Figure 9 (below) I imagine that is Marda, Elyrix and Tyhry riding on the mammalian aliens.

Figure 9. Mammal-like alien creatures generated by Whisk. Compare to the reptilian alien in Figure 1.

Alternate moon by ImageFX.

Next, I had Whisk make one of these riding scenes with just Elyrix and Tyhry riding on alien beasts with a less alien color of fur (see Figure 10, below). I was not satisfied with the default depictions of the moons in these images. Does the moon of a distant exoplanet always have to look like Earth's Moon? Does the moon always need to be in full phase?

ImageFX text prompt: "A moon by any other name: the red and white moon of an exoplanet that has a large amount of frozen water on its surface" was used to generate the image shown to the right.

Figure 10. Brown and furry alien creatures generated by Whisk and ridden by Elyrix the Grendel and Tyhry.

Elyrix the Grendel.

A darker version of Figure 10 is at the very bottom of this blog post. I asked Claude to suggest an improved text prompt that might result in a new image where 1) the two alien creatures will have distinctly different colors and 2) the moon in the sky would look less like Earth's Moon and more like what the planet Mars might have looked like 3 billion years ago. Claude cleverly included in the text prompt "Above them hangs a massive, rusty-red planet with visible blue oceans, white polar ice caps, and thin wispy clouds in its atmosphere, resembling Mars as it might have appeared 3 billion years ago when it still had small areas of liquid water." The Whisk-generated image using Claude's text prompt is shown in Figure 11, below. The two human figures were generated by Mr. Wombo and pasted into the Whisk-generated scene.

Figure 11. Generated by Whisk.

Another exoplanet moon by ImageFX.

I had Leonardo Phoenix make a version of this scene (see Figure 12, below). Sadly, it looks like the moon is in front of the clouds.

Figure 12. Generated by Leonardo.

How to confuse ImageFX: "A woman stands on a savanna. In the sky is a red and white moon that has a large amount of frozen water on its surface like Mars three billion years ago when it had water. The woman is seeing the moon high in the sky through a layer of wispy clouds. The human is on a savanna of an exoplanet and the moon is in orbit. The scene shows the moon in a darkening sky after sunset".

Figure 13. Generated by WOMBO Dream.

Using the version of Elyrix from Figure 11 as a reference image, Mr Wombo generated the alternative alien creature shown to the right (see Figure 13). For this image, I manually added the text and the moon at the upper right corner. This alien mammalian quadruped ended up with some green fur because I made used part of a Whisk-gerated text prompt that included "green eyes" as part of the description of Elyrix and I provided no guidance for the appearance of the "alien mammalian quadruped".

Using Leonardo Flow State and this text prompt, "A group of four very tall and very slender women playing with two cute alien quadrupedal mammals that have shaggy fur.

Figure 14. Generated by Leonardo.

 One woman is riding on the back of a furry alien creature that resembles a mammal. Savanna background under moonlight. Another woman is brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal. Two of the women are holding hands while they watch the two alien quadrupedal mammals. chiaroscuro", the image shown in Figure 14 was generated. As discussed in my previous blog post (see Figure 16), Leonardo generated an alien with six legs. In Figure 14 it looks like there is an alien creature with one head that is shared by two bodies.

Figure 15. Another alien with 8 legs?

Figure 16. Two "cheek-ear" alien quadrupeds being ridden.

I purposefully provided Leonardo Flow State with no information about the clothing to be worn by the women in this scene. For the image shown in Figure 16, Leonardo dressed the women long dresses which I would not have selected as riding gear. The two larger "alien mammals" in were Figure 16 unusual and I thought it was a nice touch for Leonardo to also include the two smaller animal in this scene.

Less clothing and more animals (compare to Figure 16, above). The prize winner for the most alien quadrupeds.

Figure 17. Accessing alien minds.

The Lenardo-generated image that is shown in Figure 17 was modified by me to add the text and I also had Mr. Wombo make altered versions of the faces of the two women on the right hand side so as to better match my imagination for the appearance of Marda and Tyhry. As for Figure 15, Figure 17 has one of the women using some sort of hand-held device. These images have me thinking about an attempt to make telepathic contact with these alien creatures.

Figure 18. Hot Savanna on a distant exoplanet.

Figure 19. Aliens harvest tusks.

In contrast to Figure 16 in which the women seemed somewhat over-dressed, Leonardo greatly reduced the amount of clothing for Figure 18. 

The image shown in Figure 19 had an unusual Leonardo-generated anatomical structure in the alien quadrupeds, what I'll call tusks. For Figure 19, I had Mr. Wombo generate alien faces for the three woman and I pasted in another tusk where their two hands were meeting, as if they are handing off a newly harvested tusk.

 Figure 20, below, has some of the stranger alien quadrupedal mammals that were created by Leonardo. My text prompt specified "brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal" and so Leonardo gave these aliens blond hair.

Figure 20. I manually added the leash, imagining that the woman in white tennis shoes must have chased and lassoed the alien quadruped that the other woman is riding on.

Figure 21.

 The Mutants of Tar'Tron. Leonardo provided a close-up view of one of the alien creature that has two bodies merged just behind the head (compare to Figures 14 and 15, above). I modified that Leonardo-generated images to add an alien head to the humanoid at the right hand side of the image and some text (see Figure 21, to the right).

Figure 22. Mutant Grendel with two heads.

The scene that is shown in Figure 22 was generated by Leonardo and then modified by "wombofication" so as to make the women have pointed ears like Grendels. The two alien humanoid faces were also generated by Mr. Wombo and I added the text. At the left side of the image, this appears to be an alien humanoid with two heads on one body. The faces of the two sheep-like aliens were not modified by me. 

The two-headed Grendel also has a strange type of "mutant" hand, possibly with two opposable thumbs (see the Ler).

Figure 22a. By Mr. Wombo.

For Figure 22a, shown to the right, Mr Wombo generated an image of what appears to be an alien-human chimera. This unusual image originated from a Leonardo-generated image see below) that was then used as a reference image for WOMBO Dream.

Leonardo-generated reference
image that was used by Mr.
Wombo for making Figure 22a.

 For the Leonardo-generated image that is shown to the left, my text prompt specified "a cute alien quadrupedal mammal that looks like a fox". I also requested depiction of a: "hot summer savanna" and that the "quadrupedal mammals have long pink tongues that are licking the hot wet skin of the sweaty women".

My text prompt for these Leonardo-generated images (Figures 15 - 22 above and 23 - 27 below) specified, "brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal", but Leonardo found it impossible to generate convincing images of a woman brushing an alien.

Figure 23. Maybe that is a yellow brush being used by the humanoid alien to groom the mane of the quadrupedal alien creature. Main image by Leonardo, alien humanoid head by Mr. Wombo. Tyna on the left hand side of the scene.

Figure 24. I added the text and Mr. Wombo made the alien humanoid head (right).

 The image that is shown above in Figure 23 is about the best depiction of brushing a quadruped that Leonardo was able to generate. In Figure 24, the original Leonardo-generated image, had a hand above the disembodied head, but I erased it.

chimera by Leonardo

 Alien-human chimeras. The image to the left shows an alien-human chimera with human-like arms. Here is the complete text prompt for this Leonardo-generated image: "Two very tall and very slender blond women are playing with two cute alien quadrupedal mammals that have soft fur and long shaggy manes. One woman with very long blond hair is riding on the back of a furry alien creature that resembles a mammal with an udder such as a zebra. A hot summer savanna night background under moonlight. The other woman is using a hair brush to beautify the the long hair of the mane of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal that looks like a fox. The two quadrupedal mammals have long pink tongues that are licking the hot wet skin of the sweaty women". There was a woman and a zebra-like alien on the left side of the image (not shown here). The image below has another Leonardo-generated chimera.

Another Leonardo-generated alien-human chimera (right). Tyhry on the alien zebra (left).

Figure 25. The Grendel oxypathin genes.

In the Exode Saga, Grendels are a genetically engineered humanoid species with long pointed ears and telepathic powers. To facilitate their sharing of thought by means of telepathy, the Grendel genome codes for several Oxypathin peptide hormones. For Figure 25, the text, tongue and pointed ear were manually added to the Leonardo-generated scene.

Oxypathin experiment with aliens. Text, pointed ear and tongue added to the Leonardo-generated image.

Aliens with long pink tongues by Leonardo.

The image shown to the right is rather typical of what was generated by Leonardo when the text prompt that suggested a "hot summer savanna" and that the aliens should have "long pink tongues". I suppose there are not many images in the Leonardo training set that show alien animals licking cute women.

Slightly modified by me.

For the image shown to the right, I slightly modified the bottom of the alien animal on the left to cover up the two zebra-like legs that had been generated by Leonardo.

The Leonardo-generated image shown to the left was slightly modified by me. The thin tip of the tongue was generated by Leonardo as a disembodied fragment that floated near the mouth of the woman. I manually connected that tongue fragment to the main part of the tongue.

In this image, maybe the woman is also an alien. I left untouched her extra fingers.

 The Alien Tongue Gallery. Shown below are some of the unaltered Leonardo-generated images of alien tongues and other pink structures that sometimes look like thin drinking straws. The first image below was slightly altered to add the award.

The award with the red ribbon was generated by Leonardo in another image and modified by me to insert the text "long tongue" and then pasted into this image.

 

Under two moons. Leonardo made pink "tongues" linking two aliens to the woman on the right. Maybe this is a depiction of alien synapex linkage technology.

 

Two Leonardo-generated aliens sharing a pink noodle.

 

Are those straws linking from their mouths to the ears?

Multiple thin pink "tongues" generated by Leonardo. Maybe this is a synapex linkage experiment.

Alien zebra-like creatures and Tyhry.

 Alien Zebras. Of all the Leonardo-generated images of zebra-like aliens, the one shown to the left was the most interesting. Most of the alien Zebras created by Leonardo were quite large and usually Leonardo had a woman riding on a zebra in these images. However, for this one image (to the left) Leonardo made smaller alien zebras.

I did slightly alter the AI-generated image that is shown to the left. First of all, this is a cropped image, showing just the right hand side of the Leonardo-generated wide landscape style image. Second, I slightly modified her leg to remove a distracting imperfection. The extreme right hand edge of the original Leonardo-generated image was cropped off to hide what looked like strange toes.

Figure 26. Leonardo alien tail transplant.

Figure 27. A quadruped with zebra stripes in the background.

Some of the Leonardo-generated images were rather comical. In the image shown to the right (Figure 26), it looks like the woman on the right has a tail. As mentioned above, I had requested that Leonardo include in the scene: "Another woman is brushing the hair of a cute alien quadruped", but the object held by the woman on the left hand side of the image does not look like a hair brush. Far easier for me to imagine that this is some weird experiment that involves transplanting alien tails onto humans. With mention of "savanna" in my text prompt, sometimes Leonardo could not resist including what looks like a conventional Earthly animal (see Figure 27, below).

There is nothing to say that the ecosystem of a distant exoplanet might not evolve an animal that looks like a zebra (see the image to the left). Also, in the stories of Jack Vance, when humans spread out into the habitable exoplanets of the galaxy, they brought along Earthly plants and animals, so maybe the image in Figure 27 includes a zebra from Earth. "Zebra" was not included in the text prompt for Figure 27.

Figure 28. Bipedal aliens.

Although I asked for AI-generated depictions of women riding on quadrupedal aliens, Leonardo made quite a few bipedal alien creatures (see Figures 28 - 32, below).

Figure 29. Bipedal aliens with collars. click to enlarge

The image shown above (Figure 29) has two bipedal aliens that are wearing collars (click on the image to enlarge).

Figure 30. Ride a bipedal alien.

The image shown in Figure 30 has a kangaroo-like Leonardo-generated alien biped that can be ridden.

The image that is shown below in Figure 31 is rather unusual in its composition, but it shows three bipedal aliens together with three Earthlings. Sadly, the image has what appears to be a disembodied arm. I could have made that superfluous arm disappear into the night, but I left the image unaltered as an illustration of one of the kinds of common errors made by Leonardo.

Figure 31. An interesting Leonardo-generated image ruined by the disembodied arm to the left of the alien bipeds.

Related Images: see this 2024 blog post.

Next: hair brushing and hair nanites.

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