So, I had this weird thought the other day, just popped into my head – what would a horse look like wearing a tutu? Don’t know where it came from, maybe I saw a ballet thing on TV or something, who knows. Anyway, it kinda stuck with me, so I figured, why not try and make it happen? Not like, with a real horse, obviously. That sounds like a recipe for getting kicked.
I decided to mess around with one of those AI image generator tools. Seemed like the easiest way to tackle such a strange idea. Booted it up and just typed in the basic idea: “horse in a tutu”. Simple enough, right?
Well, the first results were… something else. One looked like the horse was somehow merged with the tutu, like a weird centaur but with fabric. Another one had the tutu floating randomly nearby, not actually on the horse. Definitely not what I had in mind. It was pretty funny, though, in a confusing way.
Trying to get it right
Okay, back to the drawing board. I realized I needed to be clearer. So, I tried getting more specific with my instructions. Typed something like: “a brown horse standing in a grassy field, wearing a pink ballet tutu around its waist”. I figured specifying the color and placement might help.
That was a bit better. Got an image that actually had a horse, and it was wearing something vaguely tutu-like. But it wasn’t quite right. The tutu looked kinda stiff, more like a lampshade, and the horse looked really bored, or maybe confused. Poor thing.
I kept tweaking things:
- Tried different horse breeds, thinking maybe a more ‘elegant’ horse would fit the tutu vibe? Didn’t make much difference.
- Changed the tutu description: “fluffy pink tutu”, “multi-layered tutu”.
- Played with the background: “sunny meadow”, “stable”, “on a stage” (that last one got weird results too).
- Even tried adding adjectives for the horse: “happy horse”, “majestic horse”.
It took a fair few tries. Sometimes the AI would put the tutu on the horse’s head like a hat, which gave me a good chuckle. Sometimes the horse anatomy was just… way off. Legs going in weird directions, you know the stuff AI sometimes spits out.
Getting there
Eventually, after maybe 15-20 minutes of fiddling with the words, I got one that actually looked decent. It was a pretty standard-looking brown horse, standing in a field, and it had this surprisingly well-rendered pink, fluffy tutu around its middle. The horse didn’t look thrilled, but it didn’t look horrified either. Just… a horse. In a tutu. Exactly what I asked for, I guess.
It was just a silly experiment, really. Didn’t have any grand purpose. But it was interesting seeing how hard it was to get the AI to understand such a simple, but unusual, concept. You really have to guide it carefully, tell it exactly what goes where. It doesn’t ‘get’ the joke, it just follows instructions, sometimes very literally.
So, yeah. That was my little project. Now I have a picture of a horse in a tutu saved on my computer. Not sure what I’ll ever do with it, but the process was kinda fun. Makes you think about how these tools work, and how specific you need to be to get the crazy ideas out of your head and onto the screen.
