{"id":23418,"date":"2025-12-14T11:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:03:06","slug":"insane-nano-banana-style-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/14\/insane-nano-banana-style-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Insane Nano Banana style transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;m fond of noting, only thing more incredible than witchcraft like this is just how little notice people now take of it. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af But Imma keep noticing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two years ago (i.e. an AI eternity, obvs), I was duly impressed when, walking around a model train show with my son, DALL\u2022E was able to create art kinda-sorta in the style of vintage boxes we beheld:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Seeing a vintage model train display, I asked it to create a logo on that style. It started poorly, then got good. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v7qL8Xnqpp\">pic.twitter.com\/v7qL8Xnqpp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnack\/status\/1723724032644874749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I still think that&#8217;s amazing\u2014and it is!\u2014but check out how far we&#8217;ve come. At a similar gathering yesterday, I took the photo below&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trens.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trens-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trens-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trens-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Trens.jpg 1007w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and then uploaded it to Gemini with the following prompt: \u201cPlease create a stack of vintage toy car boxes using the style shown in the attached picture. The cars should be a silver 1990 Mazda Miata, a red 2003 Volkswagen Eurovan, a blue 2024 Volvo XC90, and a gray 2023 BMW 330.\u201d And boom, head shot, here&#8217;s what it made:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"765\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches-765x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23420\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches-768x1029.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coches.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 765px) 100vw, 765px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find all this just preposterously wonderful, and I hope I always do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Einstein is said to have remarked, &#8220;There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m fond of noting, only thing more incredible than witchcraft like this is just how little notice people now take of it. \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af But Imma keep noticing! 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