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Now that Copilot can produce landscape format pictures, the use of a rabatment in the generated picture will hopefully be possible.
I first learned of rabatment in the book by John Kay that is available, by the generosity of the book's author, to read from a link in the following post.
[WJGO]
Please produce an original landscape impressionist style painting that is 1536 pixels wide and 1024 pixels tall.
On the left side rabatment there is a window.
Left of the window, two ladies in traditional Japanese summer attire, facing right, are looking through the window.
Right of the window, a field of rice plants growing.
At the right of the picture, a full moon.
The moon has just risen above the horizon.
[Copilot]
Here’s your impressionist-style landscape painting, capturing the serene moment with a window framing the scene and the moon rising above the horizon. Let me know if you’d like any refinements!
[WJGO]
Please produce an original landscape impressionist style painting that is 1536 pixels wide and 1024 pixels tall.
On the left side rabatment there is a window.
Left of the window, two ladies in traditional Japanese summer attire, facing right, are looking through the window.
Right of the window, a field of rice plants growing.
At the right of the picture, a full moon.
The moon has just risen above the horizon.
[Copilot]
Here’s your impressionist-style landscape painting, capturing the serene moment with a window framing the scene and the moon rising above the horizon. Let me know if you’d like any refinements!
[WJGO]
Please produce an original landscape impressionist style painting that is 1536 pixels wide and 1024 pixels tall.
On the left side rabatment there is a window.
Left of the window, two ladies in traditional Japanese summer attire, facing right, are looking through the window.
Right of the window, a field of rice plants growing.
At the right of the picture, a full moon.
The moon has just risen above the horizon.
[Copilot]
Here’s your impressionist-style landscape painting, capturing the serene moment with a window framing the scene and the moon rising above the horizon. Let me know if you’d like any refinements!
Now that Copilot can produce landscape format pictures, the use of a rabatment in the generated picture will hopefully be possible.
I first learned of rabatment in the book by John Kay that is available, by the generosity of the book's author, to read from a link in the following post.
William wrote:[I tried to get a picture more like Albert's original, but no success yet]
[WJGO]
That is wonderful. Thank you.
Could you please produce a version where the elephant is looking to the left of the picture and the rhinoceros is looking to the right of the picture.[Copilot]
Here’s your refined impressionist painting—an elephant looking to the left and a rhinoceros looking to the right before the sunlit mountain. Let me know if you’d like any further adjustments!
The lighting has changed but both animals are still looking in the wrong direction! Why not simply ask Copilot to flip the picture horizontally?
Because the elephant would no longer be on the left and the rhinoceros would no longer be on the right. I was trying to get a result that looked like a painting inspired by Albert's abstract artwork.
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[What is really interesting here is that Copilot has produced a landscape format picture 1536 pixels by 1024 pixels that it could not do the other day.]
[WJGO]
I notice that you can now produce landscape format pictures. Is that abiity a newly acquired ability for you?
[Copilot]
Yes, that's a relatively recent improvement! My ability to generate images has evolved, and now I can create landscapes, which means more room for composition and dynamic storytelling. It allows for a richer sense of space and depth—especially useful for grand scenes like your elephant and rhinoceros before the sunlit mountain. Have you been experimenting with different formats in your own artwork lately?
[WJGO]
Yes, I have produced a PDF document with a 16 wide to 9 high aspect ratio and within it an A3 size landscape vector artwork. This is so that the picture can display well on a screen, and then the A3 size artwork can be extracted so that a print can be obtained on a standard size piece of paper.
[Copilot]
That sounds like an excellent approach—balancing digital display optimization with practical print considerations. A 16:9 aspect ratio ensures a strong presence on screens, while embedding an A3 vector artwork allows for high-quality reproduction when printed. The versatility of vector graphics must be a real advantage for preserving clarity at different sizes.
Have you found a preferred method for extracting and printing the embedded artwork? I imagine precision matters quite a lot in ensuring the final print aligns with your vision.
[I tried to get a picture more like Albert's original, but no success yet]
[WJGO]
That is wonderful. Thank you.
Could you please produce a version where the elephant is looking to the left of the picture and the rhinoceros is looking to the right of the picture.
[Copilot]
Here’s your refined impressionist painting—an elephant looking to the left and a rhinoceros looking to the right before the sunlit mountain. Let me know if you’d like any further adjustments!
[WJGO]
Please produce an original impressionist painting.
Elephant and rhinoceros before a sunlit mountain.
[Copilot]
Here’s your impressionist painting—an elephant and rhinoceros standing before a sunlit mountain. I hope it captures the depth and warmth you envisioned! Let me know if you’d like any refinements.
I must have got something from an archive but I found ths picture, drawn by Albert and given a title by me, in my Downloads folder today.
Presented as the artist presented it.
Rotate the picture counterclockwise to observe it please.
Comments by Albert and Alfred and are awaited.
Well, here it is as a detail from a print screen image from WordPad.
It would look much better in colour, and with the sequences displayed correctly.
The emoji used are as follows.
https://emojipedia.org/woman_walking_facing_right
I’m pretty sure there’s a hex dump utility available for download from the High-Logic Forums. ...
Well, it was, from the second post in the following thread.
https://forum.high-logic.com/t/obtainin … ument/2342
but the forum looks different from how it used to look and the file will not download, but maybe it is some connectivity problem and it will be fine later, maybe it is just this computer.
But I cannot usei t at present as I am using a Windows 10 S computer at this time and I don't want to unlock it.
It seems one gets a card and an envelope, so perhaps arriving in a larger, maybe A5, envelope or pack.
I know that if one orders a card from
and one chooses to have Papier send it to someone else, the card is sent in an envelope, yet if one chooses the Send it to me first option (purported to be to then give or send to the recipient, possibly after adding a handwritten note - but here I keep it and put it in a frame) the card arrives in a cardboard pack together with a blank envelope.
When I performed a new search for Japanese Art Card on the Tesco site I got more than 300 results in total, ...
I got 304 results.
Upon putting them in order of Price low to high, the first and the three hundred and third are both £3.99,
I noticed on the back of one that it has
Please recycle this card
No way!
More likely put in a frame than not! 
No, it won't post.
Can you try renaming the downloaded file to have .html as the file extension please and then try opening it as a local file in a web browser program please?
It is 15 characters originally, of which most are not in plane 0 and those are probably each represented in the file by two surrogate characters. I think that two ZWJ characters are included.
So that would make (13 times 2) plus 2 characters and there might be a BYTE ORDER MARK character in there two and possibly a CARRIAGE RETURN and a LINE FEED at the end.
Here is a try.
I constructed it in WordPad by finding the emoji as copy and paste items from emojipedia.
For example, not one I used,
emoji pineapple
https://emojipedia.org/pineapple
Emoji usually do not get posted in this forum, so I will try in a separate post so that these notes get posted.
Something I found by happy chance.
If one goes to
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/trolley
and then searches for
Arts and Crafts
and then selects sorting by
Price low to high
and then looks until one gets to £3.99, which was on page 2 for me,
then there are available art cards featuring reproductions of Japanese art prints.
For example,
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/p … /325654838
It has
Made in Scotland
on the back
Can anyone get this to display please?
I am using a Windows 10 computer bought some years ago as a backup machine and it was reduced price as not the latest model when bought.
Oh, the file has a .htm extension and the forum won't accept it.
So i will change the name to have a .txt extension, but it is meant to be .htm really.
I have had the idea of trying to make a picture that is an abstract pastiche of the AI-generated picture using just glyphs from the fonts that I produced in 2002 using the Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
I have had a go this afternoon. I used WordPad and Paint.
It’s fascinating how certain traits keep resurfacing across different stories. That depth, that mix of humor and gravity, makes them feel real, not just fictional figures but echoes of human experience. And maybe that’s why finishing a project feels bittersweet—they aren’t just characters, they’re extensions of something personal.
I completed my first novel in February 2019, thinking at that time that that was that, complete. Feeling rather pleased with myself and the two endings.
Yet I missed writing it, so I started to write a sequel, which is not yet complete, though what has been written has been published on the web.
Pennsylvania Railroad class T1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva … d_class_T1
A new T1 locomotive under construction
Pennsylvania Railroad 5550
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylva … lroad_5550
Collection of YouTube videos from The T1 Trust
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