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We have alt text for images, you want alt images for text. You can see other people's interpretation of Zaphod's two heads by watching the BBC HHGTTG show (Mar
by thwarted 2y ago
We have alt text for images, you want alt images for text.
You can see other people's interpretation of Zaphod's two heads by watching the BBC HHGTTG show (Mark Wing-Davey) or the movie (Sam Rockwell), among other renditions, which offer completely different interpretations, none of them canonical (not the least of which is because there was no canonical version of HHGTTG according to DA). I'm sure there are multitudes of fan art for HHGTTG on deviantart. Having AI generate an image doesn't offer any more "official" visualization.
Zaphod's second head is mentioned just as much is warranted. If a character has a limp or a crazy haircut it is not mentioned every time, because it has nothing to do with what is going on. And the book mentions that one head is often distracted/asleep, so it sounds like you do have a good visual of what his two heads are like.
While I understand that people think differently and some people are more visual thinkers, a good portion of the concepts expressed through writing are meant to be mindfucks that are difficult to express visually. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the meat of writing is usually not the visual representation of its concepts. That's a great thing about writing: you can fill in the visuals yourself and it's fodder for fans to discuss.
(BTW, Hotblack Desiato's ship would just be black. Your eyes couldn't focus on it. Even the controls were black labels on a black background. There is nothing here to visualize other than, well, blackness).
- smusamashah 2y agoI agree that people interpret things differently and visualise differently and that is my point. I want to see the concept from my head in a solid visual form. Some concepts that are not clear, like those that I mentioned having trouble with, I want to see any kind of visual representation at all. I will probably not like some of those, but there these tools can help generate a bunch of variations tailored specifically for me. I can choose one and carry on with that. I can come back and more details to that as I read further. If someone can show me exactly what I am thinking of, won't that be amazing.
- thwarted 2y ago> If someone can show me exactly what I am thinking of, won't that be amazing. I suppose it would be amazing if someone could read minds, but is that what you're asking for? In an earlier comment, you opened with: > I am waiting for when I could provide these a scene snippet from "Hitchhiker's Guide To Galaxy" (or any book) and it could draw that for me. This is asking for an illustrator, not showing you what you're thinking. The illustrator, even if it is a machine, will show you their interpretation.
- pixl97 2y ago>Hotblack Desiato's ship would just be black These days we have paint that black, though we can't reproduce the effect on the monitor. Those superblacks really do mess with your mind. It's like a cutout of the void.