In the process of creating concept art for Microbia (see here), I created quite a few images that ultimately didn't get used. My standard procedure was to have the AI generate five images and then I'd pick the best one. Sometimes the prompt produced images that I just didn't like. These were discarded and I tweaked the prompt. Other times I got images that were interesting but that didn't didn't quite match my vision for Microbia (sometimes because futuristic or video game elements crept in), so they were also set aside and I tweaked the prompt. But I think that the images from this second set are still worth sharing. And even when the prompt worked well, there were four unused images that were usually of interest. So here follows some of the images from the cutting room floor.
(NOT) Winogradsky Castle
(NOT) Khorana Ruins
(NOT) The Stone Pillars
(NOT) The Mind Crystal
(NOT) The Great Lohng
(NOT) Fire Mountain
(NOT) The Great Taiban
(NOT) The Roof of the World
(NOT) The Eternal Sapling
(NOT) Crick Palace
(NOT) Franklin Castle
(NOT) Dry Valley
(NOT) The Amethyst Cavern
(NOT) The Crystal Aspect
(NOT) The Shrine of Trees
(NOT) The Blue Mountain
(NOT) The Great Cathedral of Pauling
(NOT) The Blue Cave
(NOT) The Ice Tree
(NOT) Beijerinck Pass
(NOT) The Sacred Flame
(NOT) Schrödinger
(NOT) Delbrück Harbor
(NOT) Wilkins
(NOT) Temple of the Three Rivers
(NOT) The Stolnor
(NOT) The Crystal Forest
These illustrations were drawn using Stable Diffusion 2.1.
