Cosmos

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

-Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980)

About my project

Our theme this month is a Carl Sagan quote from his series Cosmos.

With some interesting AI tools being released every day, I decided to see how I liked making art with it. I am doing a writeup well after the fact so can’t remember specifics. In the end I got a very generic story and some decently interesting “art” to accompany the story.

How I made it

I first used chatGPT (I think?) to create a short story based on some details I provided about the Carl Sagan quote. I also included information about the Creative Club members to work into the story.

Next I used an image generation tool (Midjourney? who knows) and tried several approaches and styles until I decided on water color.

To be clear, I did not “make” any of this, I prompted a text box to make it for me. I’m still wrapping my head around how I feel about it, but it for sure did not scratch a creative itch, only a tech-curious one.