In the process of creating concept art for Microbia (see here), I created quite a few images that ultimately didn't get used. My standard procedure was to have the AI generate five images and then I'd pick the best one. Sometimes the prompt produced images that I just didn't like. These were discarded and I tweaked the prompt. Other times I got images that were interesting but that didn't didn't quite match my vision for Microbia (sometimes because futuristic or video game elements crept in), so they were also set aside and I tweaked the prompt. But I think that the images from this second set are still worth sharing. And even when the prompt worked well, there were four unused images that were usually of interest. So here follows some of the images from the cutting room floor.
(NOT) The Palace of van Leeuwenhoek
(NOT) The Royal Academy of Sciences
(NOT) Mountains Near Beijerinck
(NOT) Temple to the Unseen
(NOT) The Great Red Arch
(NOT) The Impossible Cataract
(NOT) The Claw
(NOT) The Living Bridge
(NOT) Desert Ruins
(NOT) The Valley of Ascension
(NOT) The High Pass
(NOT) The Lonely Passage
(NOT) The Empty Tower
(NOT) Brenner
(NOT) The Starburst Festival
(NOT) The Great Palace
(NOT) The Certesian Glacier
(NOT) The Western Portal Tree
(NOT) The Eastern Portal Tree
(NOT) The Ruined Mountain
(NOT) The Sire
(NOT) The Ice Caves
(NOT) The Intermittent Falls
(NOT) The Ice Spire
(NOT) The Kitasato Archipelago
(NOT) The Magesterium
(NOT) The Eye of God
These illustrations were drawn using Stable Diffusion 2.1.
