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Electric Car, March 1959 [Historical Concept, AI Reconstruction]
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PapaSkwat lemmy.today PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-11-03
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An electric car imagined by Arthur Radebaugh in the March 29, 1959 edition of the Sunday comic strip, "Closer Than We Think."

I'm digging this design! We need cars to look like this!

Original illustration:

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TrackinDaKraken lemmy.world DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-26
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It couldn't figure out the purse, umbrella, and box on the rear dash, or that the seat swivels, or the grid of wires embedded in the glass roof. Also the connection between the rear section and the body is a shiny cylindrical post. It can't do swivel seats on cars because there's almost no reference images for it to copy.

It did a reasonable job otherwise. But still, downvoted for posting AI. Fuck AI.

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PapaSkwat Moderator PapaSkwat@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-11-03
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It couldn't figure out the purse, umbrella, and box on the rear dash, or that the seat swivels, or the grid of wires embedded in the glass roof. Also the connection between the rear section and the body is a shiny cylindrical post. It can't do swivel seats on cars because there's almost no reference images for it to copy. It did a reasonable job otherwise. But still, downvoted for posting AI. Fuck AI.

It couldn’t figure out the purse, umbrella, and box on the rear dash, or that the seat swivels, or the grid of wires embedded in the glass roof.

I asked it to ignore all of that before the render because I changed the scene from domestic unpacking scene, to a single person getting out of car in random parking lot by a park. So those changes were mine, not AI.

I'll keep posting AI because I love it and I think it's an awesome tool. :)

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