{"id":23122,"date":"2025-09-07T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23122"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:14:16","slug":"ai-lego-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/07\/ai-lego-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Lego Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back when DALL\u2022E 3 launched (not even two years ago, though in AI time it feels like a million), I used it to delight friends by <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/CZ8LZNGUZwZeuwo29\">rendering them &amp; their signature vehicles in Lego form<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/CZ8LZNGUZwZeuwo29\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"474\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-1024x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-1024x474.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-1536x712.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-DALL\u2022E-Whips-2048x949.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that Google&#8217;s Nano Banana model has dropped, I felt like revisiting the challenge, comparing results to the original plus ones from ChatGPT 4o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see in <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/APkQJwy8udUzybSz9\">the results<\/a>, 4o increases realism relative to DALL\u2022E, but it loses a lot of expressiveness &amp; soul. Nano Banana manages to deliver the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/APkQJwy8udUzybSz9\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-1536x860.png 1536w, https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Lego-vehicles-2048x1147.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when DALL\u2022E 3 launched (not even two years ago, though in AI time it feels like a million), I used it to delight friends by rendering them &amp; their signature vehicles in Lego form. Now that Google&#8217;s Nano Banana model has dropped, I felt like revisiting the challenge, comparing results to the original plus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23130,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions\/23130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}