Picture the Novelverse - Characters, Ships and More !

Whenever I look at that picture of the USS Nog, I get major Galaxy Quest vibes.

 

I just finished Rise of the Federation: Live by the Code. I would love to see an image of the Pegenoi. I always like when new species, that are not typical humanoids are introduced. Based on the limited description, I picture a huge lumbering species like the Dowutin from Star Wars.

 

I hope some brave artist tackles ships from the novels.

The old annuals look nice
https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-look-at-star-trek-tos-uk-annuals.html?m=1

Be careful, artists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tech/comments/y5ekbp/artists_say_ai_image_generators_are_copying_their/

In the news:
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-t2ci-gan-deep-compressed-images.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-ai-image-robots.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-body-3d-images-avian-skeletons.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-crowd-kind-artificial-intelligence-bit.html
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-team-unclonable-invisible-machine-vision.html
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/...is-happening-just-a-question-of-how-much.html

Getting there:
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/03/gen-2-ai-text-to-video.html

 

Old manip I made, of Captain Afsarah Eden from Kristen Beyer's "Voyager" novels. I used actress Lupita Nyong'o (and before "Black Panther" made her more famous to us nerds!)

I also did some "sketch cards." I'll just copy-paste my post from an older thread about drawing the book-characters.

Afsarah Eden:



Aytar Gwyn:



Meegan McDonnell:



Devi Patel:



Nancy Conlon:

 

I love it!

 

Those are great.

 

I love those drawings!!!

 

This breakthrough may be of use for those of us who want to see what the novels' ships look like:

"We create an end-to-end solution that can generate artistic images from text descriptions," Qinghe Tian and Pr. Jean-Claude Franchitti wrote in their paper....(this) is based on a dynamic memory generative adversarial network (DM-GAN), a model based on two artificial neural networks that work together to generate increasingly convincing images.

--from
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-artistic-images-based-text-descriptions.html
https://phys.org/news/2012-10-free-graphics-realistic.html

I hope some artists here might do some input to help a program extrapolate based on different styles...TMP ships for the program to look at....TNG ships to do a different look....etc.

This can pull images off novels one day:
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-vision-technique-3d-2d-images.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-open-source-photorealistic-simulator-autonomous.html

 

AI art is a lot of fun, and if anyone's seen DALL-E 2 the next generation of it is mildly terrifying (some of it is photoreal) so I'm sure one day there'll be amazing AI generated starships for fans to enjoy/complain about.

 

Writers take note
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-threaten-jobs-artificial-intelligence-collaborate.html

Combine books and cyber?
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-augmented-reality-future-paper.html

Fables and ai
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-machines-fables.html

DALL-E has just the one ship now
https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini/discussions/3068

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/...s-from-your-natural-language-description.html

There is now a way to retrieve images by sketching them
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-07-images-smart-devices.html

Researchers at the SketchX, University of Surrey have recently developed a meta learning-based model that allows users to retrieve images of specific items simply by sketching them on a tablet, smartphone, or on other smart devices. This framework was outlined in a paper set to be presented at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), one of the top three flagship computer vision conferences along with CVPR and ICCV.

Bloody things are sketching now
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-deep-framework-capabilities-robotic-agent.html


Move over DALL-E


Other thoughts
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/fan-filmmakers-primer.133417/page-28#post-14235177


I'd like to see a Trek art book with this type binding
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/xhkfvg/this_odd_shaped_book_has_a_reason_for_its_weird/

 

F-everyone's-I, whenever Nan Bacco shows up, I envision an older version of the Mayor from South Park.

 

I used to be hardcore in favor of Leslie Hendrix (Dr. Rodgers from L&O) as Bacco.

I still (mostly) am, but I'm also leaning towards Amy Morton from Chicago P.D..

 

very cool, Admiral

 

Cool. I appreciate the tribute.

That's too bad. Ever since Beyond came out, I've wanted to see someone adapt the Franklin-era uniforms with the color scheme and 2-piece design of my rough sketch. I think it would make more sense if the two were variants of the same basic design, and the Franklin uniforms are canonical while mine was just a concept sketch, so the former should be the baseline.