ChatGPT renders a scene on Mars in three styles

I did this painting when I was, say, eight or nine year old. I wanted to see what ChatGPT would do with it, so I uploaded it and asked it to do three different renderings.

I must say that really like these renderings by ChatGPT. They’re got real style. They might even be actual art. They’ve definitely got a vibe that’s missing in most of the AI-generated pictures that I’ve seen.

As always, my remarks are in bold face, while ChatGPT’s are in plain face.

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This is a painting down by a 10-year-old boy. It depicts, say, a space port on Mars. I want you to copy it in the style of a Japanese ukiyo-e print.

That sounds like a fantastic project — blending a child's imaginative sci-fi scene with the elegant, detailed style of Japanese ukiyo-e prints!

Here’s what I can do:

• I can generate a new illustration inspired by your painting, reimagined with ukiyo-e aesthetics: flatter colors, flowing lines, woodblock-style textures, and traditional Japanese composition techniques (like stylized clouds, patterned space, and Mount Fuji-like Martian mountains).
• I’ll preserve the key elements: the rocky red Mars landscape, spacecraft, and spaceport setting, but reframe them with ukiyo-e features.

Would you like me to start creating it now?

(If you want, you can also tell me if you prefer a more "Hokusai" style — bold waves and dramatic motion — or a "Hiroshige" style — softer, more atmospheric scenes.)

Let’s go with the Hokusai, which seems more fitting for a 10-year-old boy.

I love it! Now render a copy in the style of medieval illuminated manuscript. Say it’s from the Book of Revelations.

Interesting. It looks like the medieval monk who did that had time traveled to Japan and picked up some tricks from Hokusai.

Exactly! It really does feel that way — the monk seems to have blended the bold, dynamic flow of Hokusai’s style with the detailed ornamentation and solemn reverence of medieval illuminated manuscripts. The swirling clouds, stylized stars, and textured mountains create a fascinating hybrid: part cosmic vision, part sacred text, part Edo-period dream.

I strongly suspect that the resemblance between the medieval version and the Japanese version is a consequence of the fact that both images were generated in the same session. The Byzantine version below shows such effects as well.

Would you like me to try one more, maybe in yet another historical art style, like Byzantine mosaics or Renaissance frescoes? 

Byzantine mosaics, definitely. With a lot of gold.