These are too good. I like how for all of these different styles so far, it's at least making an honest attempt to match them, and that painting you specifically highlighted is excellent (as much as I don't think they're quite playing poker as I know it). If you haven't hit your tolerance of poker-playing penguins, how about "penguins playing poker, in the style of Rene Magritte's 'The Son of Man'" (my friend's suggestion) and "penguins playing poker, in the style of The Simpsons"?
My original rationale with penguins as a subject is that they're black...
If I had to guess, it was that it was going for a painting before versus the broader style and the texturing got messed up. That probably implies that it's better to simply prompt with the style of painting you want instead of asking specifically for a painting, if you want coherent results.
I also think it's interesting to note that with the second prompt, DALLE struggles immensely to figure out what belongs on a table when playing poker than compared to the first, supporting your assertion that the more complicated scene causes some details to collapse.
If...
Thanks to Benjamin Hilton on Twitter, I've been able to run some prompts despite not having access to DALLE 2 personally, and we noticed some interesting edge cases with DALLE's facial filter. Obviously in general DALLE is fine with animal faces and not fine with human faces, but there was one prompt I suggested, "a painting of a penguin jazz band, in the style of Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks,'" that gave a bunch of penguins with eldritch abominations of faces. Another prompt, "a painting of a penguin in a suit, in ukiyo-e style," had no issues with generat...
I've never seen that degree of screw-up in any DALLE generation before. Wonder what could have happened there.
So I think that's the extent of "penguins playing poker" as an artistic subject for now (although it was very nice seeing the contrasts in style, and if I ever get access to DALLE myself there are some other variations I might try), so I'm curious now to see what exactly the limits of penguin generation can be (and perhaps if anything trips the content filters). There's this lovely Claymation sketch on YouTube that remakes The Thing with Pingu, so ... (read more)