I have been playing around with ChatGPT again. This time I asked it to design me an 1880s French-style ironclad battleship based on contemporary warships. The results are shown below.
Burgundian Sea-going Turretted Ironclad Battleship: Chevalier Rouge
General Characteristics
- Displacement: 8,000 tons
- Dimensions:
- Length: 96 m (315 ft)
- Beam: 20 m (66 ft)
- Draught: 8 m (26 ft)
- Propulsion: 2 triple-expansion steam engines
- Max speed: 14 knots
- Complement: 460 officers and men
- Armour:
- Belt: 350mm (14 inches) compound armour amidships
- Turrets: 400mm (16 inches) steel plate
- Deck: 50mm (2 inches) steel plate
- Conning tower: 200mm (8 inches) steel plate
- Armament:
- Main Battery (Turrets): 2 × 340mm (13.4-inch) guns, mounted in two single turrets, fore and aft. Turrets fitted with electrically-assisted rotation
- Secondary Battery:
- Turrets: 2 × 240mm (9.4-inch) guns, mounted in two single turrets, one on each beam. Turrets fitted with electrically-assisted rotation
- Casemate-mounted: 6 × 138mm (5.5-inch) guns, mounted in a central casemate, sponsoned forward and aft of amidships
- Tertiary: 10 × 47mm Hotchkiss revolver guns (anti-torpedo boat)
- Torpedoes: 4 × 356mm (14-inch) above water torpedo tubes (2 per side)
A rather interesting project. Did ChatGPT produce just the image or the entire vessel description, or both?
ReplyDeleteWEK 3,
DeleteChatGPT created both the characteristics and the image, although I did tweak the former very slightly.
All the best,
Bob
Bob - That picture - at least its style of rendition - reminded me of the illustrations of one Chris van Allsburg in picture books. Probably the most intriguing is
ReplyDelete'The Mysteries of Harris Burdick'.
The grayscale pictures were captioned as it were with a line from a storyline text. But the mysteries purported to be a folio of illustrations with captions, submitted to a publisher, but the author (Harris Burdick) never followed up, and apparently disappeared without trace. All the pics have something weird about them, leaving the reader to conjecture what the stories were that led to the illustrations. A really intriguing picture book it is!
'The dark presence of 'Chevalier Rouge' served to empty the ocean for hundreds of miles around of enemy merchant vessels...'
Cheers,
Ion
Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteHaving looked at some of Chris van Allsburg’s pictures, I seen what you mean about the similarity in style.
The Chevalier Rouge certainly looks as if she could hold her own against any enemy battleship she ran into … and would make short work of any opponent’s merchant ships.
All the best,
Bob
BOBV,
ReplyDeleteAre you going to build a model Gunboat for your 15mm? Regards. KEV.
Kev Robertson (Kev),
DeleteI hope so … but probably not for a week or so.
All the best,
Bob