AI with Sunflowers
Being a bit of a Luddite I often steer well clear of computer hardware and software. No GOTO telescope alignments for me; planispheres and setting circles everytime. Though I sometimes peek at what's available; for example: The latest digital intrigue for me is to possibly clean up some of my old astronomy pictures using AI. First of all Venus. Here's an image I took via the projection method of the Venus Transit from June 4th 2004: After letting Gemini AI clean it up, here is the finished result: The image created by AI could not have been improved on by me, even if I had a month of Sundays to try it! Gemini AI took all of five seconds to produce that image you see above. Is it cheating to use AI in this manner? I don't think so, for if that were true I would have been cheating using the 35mm SLR camera that took the initial photo back in 2004! Though the digitised AI image does look a bit polished to my eye. With that in mind, here are a couple more of my...
