Welcome to the 2nd in a series of posts where I will test AI image generators and see how they handle making maze art. I will be asking 10 prompts and seeing what gets generated. My goal is to evaluate different AI image sites against each other to see how they perform. In my first post I discussed the project, and today we start with the first site evaluation: DallE2.
Making Maze Art with DallE2
You can access the website here. You must sign in. As of this post there is no limit to the number of prompts you can ask for, and the site is free to use. Each prompt, or generation with DallE2 will generate 4 image options. For this exercise I chose the one closest to what I had asked for, or the most interesting. Let’s get started.
Prompt 1 - Make a medium difficulty maze of the Eiffel Tower in black and white with arrows at the start and finish
I see the Eiffel Tower. In fact I see 2 of it for some reason. I see a maze like structure. It is black and white. But I see no arrows, and the maze is not really a maze.
Prompt 2 - Draw a medium difficulty large maze of the Empire State Building with the start and goal embedded in the structure
Not sure what this is. I changed the prompt vs. #1 to get rid of the arrows…I like the mazelike structure on the top of the page. And there looks to be a small Death Star under it. I think maybe DallE2 can’t make mazes.. just mazelike drawings ?
Prompt 3 - Draw a difficult maze of the White House pixel art style
It is pixel art style. Despite having no start and goal it looks the most mazelike of anything generated yet. And there is a house, although it is grey and looks like a dirty igloo. Interesting. Not winning any awards.
Prompt 4 - Draw a difficult maze that looks like a drawing of a famous building in sketch style
After asking for 3 famous buildings and seeing DallE2 go 1 for 3 I let it pick it’s own famous building and decided to try ‘sketch’ as the style. It got the style down, it looks mazelike (but not a real maze) on top of a large building with an arch entryway.
Prompt 5 - Draw a maze in the style of doyoumaze.com of a skyscraper in NYC
Nope. Maybe I’m not well known enough.
Prompt 6 - Draw a maze in the style of Sean C Jackson of a scene from a large outdoor market
So we try a famous artist of mazes. I don’t see an outdoor market but I see a lot of interesting squiggles. The maze-like shape from this perspective looks cool. Maybe there is an outdoor market there with some imagination.
Prompt 7 - Make a maze of a slice of an orange in color
I simplified the ask and got the best technical answer yet. A start and goal would even make this a real maze !
Prompt 8 - Make a maze integrated on top of a photograph of a king sitting on his throne looking cantankerous beside his beautiful queen
Cool 3d looking maze in the background ! The king is beside his queen…but really behind his queen. The look on his face is something more Frankenstein than anything else. And the hands are a problem (of course).
Prompt 9 - Make a solvable maze that is very large and very difficult to solve because it is so complex
I wanted to test the maze only capabilities. Fail. What is with the red and grey items throughout ?
Prompt 10 - Make a 3d render of a red and blue glossy cube maze
4 shown because all were interesting and none was better than another. I feel like these images would be fun to walk into.
How did Dalle2 do ? Eh. It can’t make mazes, just maze looking structures. So you get some interesting outputs, sometimes, but nothing great. The 3D portion is worth exploring more !
Coming next: Making mazes with AI: Stable Diffusion