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Sun Chariot

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They don’t “get” track do they!
Gemini produced some "gems" for me, this evening. Three of its more eclectic renders are attached.
Even my ham fisted OO track-laying isn't  that dodgy!

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Beast from the East. Trying to create an early 1970s scene with old East Coast Main Line "feel", with Deltic and Peak. I got forty images looking, by and large, like this...
 

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I tried describing my commute. I think storytellers would probably make the best ai prompts
 

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“I can count the contents of this box of eggs on the fingers of one hand“ said the person on the right.
And the one secind down on the left was in a hurry and put their shoes on in in the dark.
Speaking of shoes, who left those over on the right after the two people. Unattended items will be blown up by the bomb squad.
 
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Seems as if AI, like many artists, can't 'do hands'. One bloke's looks like a pound of sausages.
It seems to vary depending on what image is being asked of AI algorithms.
I put the attached AI image onto another thread but it serves to show some AI renders of people can look plausible. There are, however, "meat lump hand" quirks on some bystanders.
 

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It seems to vary depending on what image is being asked of AI algorithms.
I put the attached AI image onto another thread but it serves to show some AI renders of people can look plausible. There are, however, "meat lump hand" quirks on some bystanders.
Yeah I think you have to know the ai's strength and what words to use in prompts

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Learning the names of a few architectural styles got me this whilst using Artlist. Looks very European to me, I think, not the UK though.

The modern looking run somewhat reminds me of stratford then the big building reminds me of Chinese train stations I see online.
 

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The modern picture building is 100% Chinese, even down to the characters on the building. The blue circle is a bank that often sponsors the passenger lounges (from memory).

However, so many different service types in the same place is more Kuala Lumpur Sentral than the many tracks of high speed that would be found with such a building in China.
 

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Elizabeth Line prompts, it gets the colours right and the view of the Lizz Line being modern
 

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Let me guess, for the middle one you asked for an EMU and got an emu? I would be interested to see the design guide used to put the roundel right near the platform edge!
Maybe AI has solved a problem we did not know we really had.

Place these roundels strategically and it will stop those people who think it's clever to walk on the track side of the yellow lines.

In non-TfL land their London association would serve the double purpose of making people feel lost and therefore actually have to pay attention to where they are.
 

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The madness of King Gemini.
On thread Show off your realistic AI railway images! I added a sunrise rural scene with five DB class 66s running light. My exactly identical descriptive input also generated - errrr -  this o_O
 

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The madness of King Gemini.
On thread Show off your realistic AI railway images! I added a sunrise rural scene with five DB class 66s running light. My exactly identical descriptive input also generated - errrr -  this o_O
I can only imagine the look on the driver of the blue car's face when they come face to face with a locomotive.
 

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I can only imagine the look on the driver of the blue car's face when they come face to face with a locomotive.
It gives a whole new meaning to MotorRail!

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Railtours of yesteryear, when window hanging was de rigeur - especially when passing another tour operator's train. :D
The RUK shirted man must be boozed up: he's utterly legless!
Flailing from the train on a freight-only branch? My Lords!
 

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It gives a whole new meaning to MotorRail!

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Railtours of yesteryear, when window hanging was de rigeur - especially when passing another tour operator's train. :D
The RUK shirted man must be boozed up: he's utterly legless!
Flailing from the train on a freight-only branch? My Lords!
The RUK guy is also so massive that he has two window support columns sticking into his torso. That will hurt in the morning.

I do not think I would ever have tried sticking myself out of the top half of a carriage window either, not even in my youth.
 

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Hello @pdeaves on thread Show off your realistic AI railway images! I specified the locos / units / rolling stock in all the AI images I've posted. Definitely Google Gemini has a better data source for classes 37, 66, IET, HST, 156, Black Five, A3. Class 47s I found I need detailed descriptive input of the 47 bodyside and roof; else Gemini adds in all manner of grilles and windows on the side and front!

Well... @Topological my 1980s teen self used to put a hand either side of the Mk1 or Mk2 door frame (I never leant on a door) - then I'd lean my upper body out as far as it was safe to see well ahead (and never on a blind side of a curve).
 
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Hello @pdeaves on thread Show off your realistic AI railway images! I specified the locos / units / rolling stock in all the AI images I've posted. Definitely Google Gemini has a better data source for classes 37, 66, IET, HST, 156, Black Five, A3. Class 47s I found I need detailed descriptive input of the 47 bodyside and roof; else Gemini adds in all manner of grilles and windows on the side and front!

Well... @Topological my 1980s teen self used to put a hand either side of the Mk1 or Mk2 door frame (I  never leant on a door) - then I'd lean my upper body out as far as it was safe to see well ahead (and never on a blind side of a curve).
Doors with drop lights were brilliant. Though I only ever used Mk3 in the HSTs on the MML and in the rakes on the WCML. I would have been on some Mk2 either on CrossCountry or when visiting East Anglia. Happier times that AI just does not seem to understand when deciding to place the flailers.

There was a Buddlia on the approaches to Leicester from the south even then, had to be back inside the carriage for that, but the rest of the route in was clear.
 

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The first one's a B08ne. Some great concepts here of what might have been.
 

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Looking at a prompt tutorial a bit
 

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Not a mad image but....

Thread Show off your realistic AI railway images! I've made a start on creating "What if" railtour names with intentional play on words. I've tried to create Ai train and AI scenery as plausible as possible. Here's the latest:
 

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