We’ve already seen some pretty interesting uses of AI image tools. Now OpenAI’s tech is being used to show more outside the frame of classic paintings.
This new feature of DALLE-E is known as “outpainting” and allows users to take an original image and then get the artificial intelligence to expand the borders of the work. Here DALL-E adds extra visual elements to the painting, taking the original style and expanding the borders.
Interesting examples of outpainting in action seem to show believable surroundings to well-known portrait paintings and more. We’ve collected some of them for your enjoyment.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Here the outpainting feature has been used to transform Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring into an image with a much wider canvas.
Here the outpainting feature has been used to transform Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring into an image with a much wider canvas. The expanded view shows much more of her surroundings.
At a glance it’s all perfectly believable too and wonderfully suits the original style of the painting.
DALLE-E outpainting in action
If you haven’t got access to DALL-E yet, you can still see the outpainting mode in action and get a glimpse of how it works. The tool gives the ability to change elements of the painting as the canvas is expanded, so different works can be created with the same image.
A Friend in Need
Dogs playing poker is a wonderful series of paintings showing man’s best friend engaging in classic human past times. But if you’ve ever wondered what lay beyond the frame of the original canvas then DALL-E might have the answer.
Here M.G. Siegler, General Partner of Google Ventures has used DALL-E to outpaint the classic 1903 painting “A Friend in Need” by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge. The full view of the room just shows more pups having fun times. We’d imagine in the back of an old-fashioned speakeasy.
Paramount Pictures logo
The outpainting feature can be used on all sorts of things it seems and isn’t just for expanding the sides of a landscape painting.
The outpainting feature can be used on all sorts of things it seems and isn’t just for expanding the sides of a landscape image but can show more of what’s above and below too.
Here we’re seeming more of the surroundings of the Paramount Pictures logo. Is this what it would really look like? Feels like a dreamy vision of soft clouds and a beautiful sunset.
Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night takes on a whole new aesthetic when run through DALL-E.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night takes on a whole new aesthetic when run through DALL-E. It was already fairly quirky but now features a dinosaur, spaceship and what looks like a building floating in the sky.
Combining paintings
As well as expanding the borders of paintings, this feature of DALL-E can also be used to combine images too.
The artificial intelligence works some magic to put the images together in a convincing way. Here Batman and Captain American are seriously conversing on a rooftop.
Full Quaker Oats logo
This time it looks like Quaker Oats has had a rebranding and an eye-opening one at that.Â
A fresh take on another company logo crafted using the outpainting functionality.
This time it looks like Quaker Oats has had a rebranding and an eye-opening one at that.
Ever have one of these as a kid and wonder what it would be like if it was even bigger?
Ever have one of these as a kid and wonder what it would be like if it was even bigger? DALL-E made light work of what already looked like an abstract painting and produced more roads to travel.
Abbey Road
If the focus of the original image hadn’t been so tight on the band members what would we have seen?
The Beatles' Abbey Road album cover might be one of the most well-known and recognisable album artworks of all time.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
This portrait of Napolean has been expanded to show more of what’s going on. You’d be perfectly forgiven for assuming this was the original artwork too.Â
At the start of the 1800s, French artist Jacques-Louis David painted some images of Napoleon Bonaparte crossing the Alps.
Now the tightly framed portrait has been expanded to show more of what’s going on in the background. You’d be perfectly forgiven for assuming this was the original artwork too.
