Since I love the art of illusions, or Illusion Art, as it is called in English, I came up with an idea for a picture. Initially, the idea was about a person that looks at nature and the components of the observed landscape, including the sky, clouds, peaks, forests, rivers, meadows and so on, compose his very own image in the form of a “hidden picture.” The meaning is that a person interprets the surrounding world according to his own views, associations, programs, desires, fears, hopes, etc., which is why Nature returns his reflection in that what happens to him in life. Unfortunately, I am not an artist (although I have worked with 3D computer animation), and for this reason I cannot paint such a picture myself. But today, as we know, there is artificial intelligence for almost everything. So, I described the concept of Chat GPT, but it turned out that it was apparently too complicated for this AI, or it did not want to cooperate with me, pretending not to understand my description (I am convinced that such a thing has happened already). Therefore, I reduced the idea to “A personq standing in profile sits on a rock, and the profile of the rock resembles his own.” Nothing complicated, the “chat” has handled far more complex descriptions given by me.

After the result was something like what you see below,

I tried to explain to it that the rock should only resemble the person’s profile, while visually still remaining a rock in a natural form, so that the resemblance would look like a coincidence, just a nature’s whim. The “chat” pretended not to “hear” and threw back almost the same image. And that happened on two or three more times. And so we arrived at the final version:

Of course, it still doesn’t work. Obviously, I need to refine the image in Photoshop. Let’s hope that artificial intelligence is simply trying to prevent us from becoming completely dull-witted and that’s why it doesn’t want to give us everything ready-made, rather than for other reasons, because at least the ones I can think of aren’t particularly optimistic.

However, do you notice the new element added to the image? Look closely at the two pictures above and you can’t miss it. The man in the second version of the image now has a companion! I swear on everything sacred, I didn’t order it! And I don’t want it!

Yesterday, an article titled “Fewer children – more justice, opportunities, and freedom” was published in the “Blog” section of this website – you can find it there. A strange coincidence, isn’t it? But life is generally full of strange coincidences. In this regard, there is a quote that sometimes appears in the quotes section in the header of the website. If you are lucky, you may see it. If not, here it is:

“If you understand, things are exactly as they are; if you don’t understand, things are exactly as they are.” – Zen proverb.