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Piececlopedia: Wildebeest. A Knight/Camel compound from Wildebeest Chess.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Wed, May 3, 2023 02:24 PM UTC:

I love this image of the Wildebeest piece. Where does it come from?


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, May 4, 2023 02:16 AM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Wed May 3 02:24 PM:

I generated it with Stable Diffusion.


H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, Sep 16 09:26 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Thu May 4 2023 02:16 AM:

Problem is that it hasn't the slightest resemblance to a Wildebeest. It is just a horse wearing cow's horns. E.g. the snout curves up, rather than down.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Sep 18 01:13 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Mon Sep 16 09:26 AM:

You're right. How about one of these? I made some images with Ideogram, edited one to tidy up the background, then uploaded it to Tengrai and produced these images from it.


Aurelian Florea wrote on Wed, Sep 18 07:05 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 01:13 AM:

They still look a bit horsie. Is that by design? They are beautiful anyway.


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Sep 18 07:13 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 01:13 AM:

It seems to me the snout still has too much of an up-curve near the nostrils. I also don't understand why it 'dresses' the horns near the base; most Wildebeest pictures I have seen have the horn run all the way to the skull. It is true that the way the horns attach to the skull is much better here.

For me the archetypal Wildebeest is this:


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Sep 19 01:29 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Wed Sep 18 07:13 AM:

I've made some more images, trying to avoid the upcurved snout of the horse. The one on the left is the original Ideogram image (reduced in size), and the one on the right is an image I got with Tengrai with the Ideogram image as an image prompt.

The main issue I had with these is that they looked like they might tip over. So I tried to create an image with a more balanced weight distribution for the piece. As before, Ideogram on the left and the Tengrai image based on it on the right.


Aurelian Florea wrote on Thu, Sep 19 04:42 PM UTC:

These are all beautiful!


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Sep 20 05:19 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Thu Sep 19 01:29 AM:

I have replaced the image on the page with a Tengrai modification of the balanced Ideogram image. It looks more like the original image than the modification shown in the comment, but it also looks more like a wildebeest than the original image does.


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