Or put it another way, I’m a big fat nerd.
Been trying to play with different kinds of AI and keep my muscle memory of AI prompting. So I figured, why not create a coat of arms for myself and Melanie. You know, for fun. I’m not sure if others have fun like this but I sure had a lot of fun making this.
Let me walk you thru it:
- Suporters: Dexter side: Red Fawn Greyhound, in honor of America’s Favorite Sighthound ™ , Cedar. The Sinister side: Black cat, in honor of the 66% of our cats that are black and of course my childhood cat, Soot. Chose the “Sinister” side to show I don’t think black cats are bad luck.
- Crown: Brindel greyhound running, in honor of the late, much missed Otter
- Shield: Shows the three main flags of our heritage, Scotland,England and Canada. In the middle of the shield is a book opened to symbolize our thirst for knowlege and the fact Mel is a Librarian. On the Dexter side a Corn stalk peeks out to symbolize our love of plant life and gardening. Finally, on the sinister bottom a filed of Binary to symbolize our embracing technology and my job in IT.
- Compartment: Field of grass with clovers and small flowers. Most Compartment’s I’ve seen are just grass or something else but since we want a more “natural lawn” this is my way to show that.
- Motto: “Ad ominia animali ” in English means “For all things Animals” We chose this because we both know both of us would do anything for animals and would rather starve than our animals go hungry.
I made this with Google Flow and it took 1 main prompt followed by 5 corrections. Flow handled it like a pro.
Here is my first prompt:
Create a coat of arms. For Supporters on the sinister side have an outline of a common house cat, on the dexter a greyhound
for the field have a corn stalk for the charge have an opened book for the escutcheon have flags that merge into eachother from Scotland, England, and France
for the compartment have mount vert with clovers, under the compartment have the motto “Ad omnia animalia” that’s on a ribbon
Here is what it created at first:
I totally made a mistake because I said an “outline of a cat” at first I didn’t want a color of any kind of cat or greyhound because I didn’t want to leave anyone out. But I liked the look of the greyhound better. I also didn’t want a normal crown, but I didn’t tell it to exclude that. It missed the flag of France so I chose to change it Canada since that’s really where my maternal family comes from. From there I also chose to add the field of binaries on the left bottom of the shield. I also asked it to change the Greyhound to a red fawn and add a brendle running to the left as the “crown” it got a bit confused with that correction:
I then asked for the red fawn to be a bit lighter, to match Cedar’s coloring and tried to make it more clear I wanted the greyound running to be the length of the shield and running to the left. It did a good job on the sizing but still had it running towards the right so I pivoted to asking it to run towards the cat and it worked.
All in all I’m really happy with how it turned out and it didn’t take me that long to research the parts of a coat of arms and build the orginal prompt and make corrections. This was a fun little project that allowed me to learn more about image prompting with little to no stakes.
