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Alternative covers for Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

  • 23 Oct, 2022
AI generated (Midjourney)

A series of Limited Edition covers for the book. Vanished and extinct species in a lab bottle. All made with generated AI.

AI rendering of one of the famous Galapagos finches
The cheetah looks unhappy
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Some AI accidents seemed more interesting than the intended design

A rare flamingo
A biologically accurate T-Rex in a bottle proved hard for the AI trained on many images of the plastic toy
The AI made the Brachiosaurus look like the Loch Ness ‘monster’
Another young Orangutan

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