A New Way of Designing Papercrafts Using Artificial Intelligence, DALL-E 3

A Valentine Cupid Heart Made By Artificial Intelligence, DALL-E 3

After attending a Logo Foundation Workshop entitled "AI and the End of Programming as We Know It"  and exploring some of the capabilities of artificial intelligence in ChatGPT, I learned that there was a graphical extension to it. It is called DALL-E 3.  

DALL-E 3 is amazing. https://openai.com/dall-e-3. The images that it creates are very pleasing to the eye. You start out by typing in criteria for your image. The results can vary with the descriptors that you use.  Using a more descriptive  explanation, will result in a more precise image. For papercrafting, I recommend using the words "coloring page" or  “line art”in your description to get a flat, black and white image or the words that I used in the photo below. This will allow you to copy and paste the image into the Silhouette software. Once the image is copied, use the Trace function to trace the image. I recommend varying the threshold and the high/low pass filters to get a more accurate trace.

A screenshot of the image created by DALL-E 3.  Notice the description that I used to create the image.  

In the above photo, I show the trace menu and the threshold value that I used to trace the image. The result is on the bottom left.  The traced image was too busy so I chose to use the cupid only by releasing the compound path and deleting the extraneous objects.  The resulting image was the cupid with a bow and arrow that needed to be pointed edited to create a continuous path. I extended the one leg of the cupid to intersect with the main image. I then welded the leg to the main image. It is a tedious process to point edit and manipulate the image but the result is very pleasing.

Here is this AI generated image made in DALL-E 3 and cut with the Silhouette Cameo. 

 The created images are yours to keep according to this document. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6425277-can-i-sell-images-i-create-with-dall-e