Moving away from animals flying in space, I turned to actual spaceships. I imagined a world where spacecraft looks like Soviet crafts from the 70s and the 80s but they are much more numerous, as if interplanetary space travel became common while using this form of spaceships.
Me: Create a photo that depicts a squadron of Soyuz spaceships flying towards a space station resembling the ISS. Make the space station hover above the rings of Saturn. The Soyuz spaceships glow in bright orange.
Then I tried to adjust the image a few times. The prompts were implicitly referring back to the original image. Note how the features of the original image fade, and how I had to reinforce some of them.
Me: Replace the space station with a mysterious plain grey sphere. It has no light or glow of its own but it reflects the light it receives from the Sun and from the spaceships. (DALL-E: removes the space station and replaces Saturn with the grey orb. Suddenly all spaceships fly upwards.)
Me again: Make the sphere smaller and make it hover above the rings of Saturn. Saturn should be visible in the image, and it should be much larger than the sphere. Plus, the starships should be flying away from the camera, towards the sphere. (DALL-E: adds the grey orb but another grey orb remains in the place of Saturn. Spaceships still fly upwards.)
Me again: Replace the Soyuz spaceships with different spaceships that resemble the Concorde. They should REALLY fly towards the sphere. (DALL-E: removes the large orb. Still no Saturn. Spaceships fly more or less in the right direction, but some of them all over the place.)
That’s it for now. Our space adventures will briefly continue in the next post.
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