Fun with reverse-caption images

Our department asked for an image to accompany a blog post on a manuscript we published recently. I explored using a reverse-caption image generation bot based on vqgan/clip to generate some (github here). Perhaps for the best, colleagues voted against using them. Here they are for posterity, and their accompanying captions.

paint an anatomical diagram of the brain on the left, which disassembles itself into Mongolian script in the middle, then reassembles itself into an abstract geometric object in the style of Kandinsky on the right.

(The entirety of the abstract was provided as a prompt)

imagine the mind's eye disassembling and then re-assembling itself

imagine the mind disassembling and then re-assembling itself

imagine the language of neurons re-translating itself over time

imagine self-assembling neural hieroglyphics dendritic parchment space

imagine the ancient language of neurons, etched in stone

imagine dendrites conversing in aramaic script

paint a forest of purkinje cells

paint (followed by as much of the paper's introduction as would fit)

imagine Joy division's unknown pleasures album cover but with dendrites everywhere and also in space.

imagine neural dendrites conversing in mongolian script, on a parchment manuscript, in space

imagine Joy division's unknown pleasures album cover but for neurons

imagine neural dendrites conversing in mongolian script, etched in stone

imagine the ancient language of neural population dendrites, on a parchment manuscript

imagine a black-and-white pencil sketch of an anatomical diagram of the brain in the style of ﷽

imagine a black-and-white pencil sketch of an anatomical diagram of the brain in the style of ﷽

paint a black-and-white pencil sketch of an anatomical diagram of the brain in the style of ﷽

paint an anatomical diagram of the brain on the left, which disassembles itself into Mongolian script in the middle, then reassembles itself into an abstract geometric object in the style of Kandinsky on the right, with parchment manuscripts scattered on the floor around.

imagine a black-and-white woodcut drawing diagram of a brain in the style of ﷽