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    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

Steve, Thanks for the kind words! Like most of the illustrations, the first two pictures were generated by Microsoft's Bing Image Creator at my prompting.
selden Creative Writing 35 250 08-23-2024, 09:53 AM
    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

A preliminary 3rd edition is now available at https://www.orionsarm.com/fm_store/Halonic_Symbiosis_3rdEd.html Unfortunately, the story itself is still incomplete, although I've added some pictures ...
selden Creative Writing 35 250 08-23-2024, 12:16 AM
    Thread: Nearby hypervelocity brown dwarf discovered
Post: Nearby hypervelocity brown dwarf discovered

I've seen several articles recently which mention that the citizen-survey project "Backyard Worlds: Planet 9" has discovered a nearby (~400 LY) brown dwarf which is headed toward the galactic center a...
selden Real Life But OA Relevant 7 1,941 07-26-2024, 10:54 PM
    Thread: Newly discovered nearby black hole
Post: Newly discovered nearby black hole

Gaia recently announced the discovery of a 33 solar mass black hole (Gaia BH3) about 2000LY away in the constellation of Aquila. It's currently the largest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way. A...
selden Real Life But OA Relevant 14 5,680 04-17-2024, 09:47 PM
    Thread: Scanning…
Post: RE: Scanning…

Of course, remotely acquired information would be out of date when the survey team arrives by at least twice the light-travel time between the destination and the survay's origin system. (Light travel...
selden General Setting Discussion 6 79 03-30-2024, 09:39 AM
    Thread: Angel Hair rewrite proposal
Post: RE: Angel Hair rewrite proposal

Just for fun, I told Bing/create to make a picture: photorealistic Flying spaghetti monsters alongside animals which resemble locks of porous human hairs that fray outwards at both ends , floating ...
selden Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 38 552 03-30-2024, 09:14 AM
    Thread: New Milky Way graphic
Post: RE: New Miliy Way graphic

I suspect its creator ( Stefan Payne-Wardenaar ) would be willing to provide more information. There's a contact form on his Web site. https://stefanpw.myportfolio.com/home
selden Real Life But OA Relevant 3 1,869 01-03-2024, 05:53 AM
    Thread: New Milky Way graphic
Post: New Milky Way graphic

The ESA has released a new graphic of the Milky Way (with and without annotations) which is based on Gaia data. Unfortunately (so far as I'm concerned, anyhow), its contrast is quite a bit lower than ...
selden Real Life But OA Relevant 3 1,869 01-03-2024, 05:30 AM
    Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images

Can you provide a brief review of the servers you've used? e.g. what AI do they use? How fast are they? How many free images per day? What special options do they provide? Of the three I've used, t...
selden General Off-topic Discussion 9 5,161 12-12-2023, 01:01 PM
    Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images

fwiw, here are the ones I rejected (reduced in size): the tiger was too big and its stripes weren't blue. Every once in a while an acceptable image shows up among the first four. This seems to have be...
selden General Off-topic Discussion 9 5,161 12-12-2023, 05:12 AM
    Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images

Yes, it is. Here's the prompt I used: photorealistic a red-haired man wearihg green shorts kneeling in front of a white tiger with blue stripes scratching the tiger behind its ears in a grassy field...
selden General Off-topic Discussion 9 5,161 12-12-2023, 04:48 AM
    Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: RE: Free gemerative AI for images

A lot depends on the prompt you provide. And what you're looking for, of course. I often have to look at more than a dozen images to find one that's close enough to what I want. So far, I've found tha...
selden General Off-topic Discussion 9 5,161 12-12-2023, 12:43 AM
  -Needs Review By Editors Thread: Free gemerative AI for images
Post: Free gemerative AI for images

I frustrated for a while about where to put this. If there's a more appropriate place, please feel free to move this post. I've been using three different providers of free AI image generation. Sin...
selden General Off-topic Discussion 9 5,161 12-11-2023, 11:33 AM
    Thread: Social Autopilot
Post: RE: Social Autopilot

Yeah. I decided I really didn't like the quality of what I'd written. If you'd like to clean it up, please do!
selden Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 44 444 12-08-2023, 03:56 AM
    Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: RE: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modo...

Thanks for the clarification.
selden Website and Content Issues 4 36 11-20-2023, 04:35 AM
    Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: RE: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modo...

Sorry: I wasn't looking in the upper section of the page. I was looking in the lower section. It skips from "Minervans" to "Molleweide"
selden Website and Content Issues 4 36 11-19-2023, 02:37 PM
    Thread: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosophonts article
Post: OA EG's internal search does not find the Modosoph...

When I used the search box provided at the top of all of the pages of the Encyclopaedia to search for "modosophonts", the article about that topic was not found. Lots of related topics were found, but...
selden Website and Content Issues 4 36 11-18-2023, 11:49 PM
    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

@Worldtree, At this point the PoV settings don't really do much (a single line at the end of Chapter 2 if "Multiple" is selected.) Only "Meta" makes a really obvious difference, and that's on the C...
selden Creative Writing 35 250 11-17-2023, 01:52 PM
    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

Yes, it was created using Bing/Create (i.e. DALL-E3). I often have to get it to create more than a dozen images with similar prompts to find one I really like. (16 in this case) Supposedly one can spe...
selden Creative Writing 35 250 11-17-2023, 01:41 PM
    Thread: Halonic Symbiosis revisited
Post: RE: Halonic Symbiosis revisited

Here are some threads related to "Halonic Symbiosis" I'm sure I've overlooked quite a few. It looks like my memories of discussions have conflated things. Any corrections or comments on canon-relate...
selden Creative Writing 35 250 11-17-2023, 01:54 AM