Tuesday, 2 June 2026

Some Modenised Versions Of Some Angela Fox Originals For The AI Age

 Very many moons ago Angela Fox was colaborating with me on a project to create an illustrated version  of part of my INSTITUTIONALISED. Although she created many images using computer modeling techniques - some of which I modified and augmented in various way using photomanipulation techniques - we could not realy ever make any of them realistic enough. But of course we now have AI and today I have been experimenting with passing one of her images (this one originaly created for somebody else) through the AI image generator that I use - along with a string of instructions - with the idea of making the image more realistic and photographic, in the first instance, but also of changing and embelishing it in various ways in order to better suit my own taste. For example: In the later versions (I've created about 50 ish) I have made the girl older (she's supposed to be 18) )and removed the wood panneling, which I never really thought appropriate.

Please don't hesitate, nor be afraid, to let me know what you think, one way or the other. For example: I have made some adjustments to the school uniform in a couple of the images: SO: Should she be wearing a blazer? Have I done the right thing in removing the wood paneling!

Above is the original - and untouched - Angeta Fox creation. All the others are AI modified. Who knows: If I get enough interest there may yet be an illustrated version of on of my works..


Obviously this one wouldn't work, because the woman is supposed to viewing the action through a two way mirror affair and the girl would see her. The idea is that whenever she looks up from her work she has to see herself sitting there dressed in the childish school uniform. Of course that would be extremely infrequent because doing so would lose her time - and the work has been set to require constant and deep concentration if it is to be completed in the alloted time period and she is to avoid the kiss of the nurse's thin and extremely whppy cane! I didn't instruct this. The AI suddenly took it upon itself to switch the observation room's light on.

The other problem is that the girl looks too young to be 18 in these early ones.
 
These (above) are the first few which came spilling out of the tin.
 
 Next I (below )removed the observing nurse's cap, as I don't think she should realy be a nurse.




Then I started playing around with trying to control the directio in which the girl is looking and her facial. expression (below).

This had the effect of making the girl look more realistic - but she's still looking far too young to be a young woman of 18; In fact she's probably looking younger than ever for some stranh reason.


So: It was time to tackle the age descrepancy - and that proved more difficult than you might think Just defiining the girl as being aged 18 wasn't going to work - because I had alredy done that in the original list of instructions (or prompt)  Eventualy I fed one of the AI modified images - related to those imediately above - back into the AI along with some additional instructions intended to give the girl more of an adult figure (I also made changes to the school uniform and attempted to do away with the wood paneling during this lastest phase - it's an ongoing piece of work with still some schanges to be made).








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