You know what, that's actually something I hadn't considered before. There's definitely a bias towards a pelican cycling from left to right on a red bicycle against a blue sky and green grass.
Blue sky and green grass aren't that surprising, but the color and direction are interesting.
When I finally build the proper gallery I'll throw in a few other creature-vehicle combinations, and track some characteristics like which direction, color of bicycle, general pelican geometry etc. It will be interesting to see if other creatures end up with coincidentally similar design choices or if that's unique to the pelican-bicycle combination.
In photography (and probably art in general), there's a composition "rule" to frame moving subjects from left to right.
So the direction may not be that interesting!
The other thing to consider (as someone who frequently take a photos of their bike) the common direction has the drive side out! In cycling forums it is sacrilegious to post a photo of your bicycle without showing the drive side.
I wonder if that changes in countries where the main language is written right to left?
That was my first thought too, I wonder if it works the same in countries speaking arabic (as that's the first one i could think of that's a language with truly no-buts right to left writing).
Arabic native speaker here.
Yes, people will usually post or draw a bicycle right to left which is going to ve opposite of what normally is drawn. I tried the prompt in arabic for many models and I don't recall any adjusting it based on that difference at least culturally speaking.
Is it culture dependent? Is it because in English we read left to right?
There was a glorious moment when I thought that the Chinese models were more likely to produce right-to-left cycling pelicans, but sadly that trend didn't seem to hold up.
For almost the last 70 years, Chinese has been left to right.
Before that it was vertical (although the ordering of the columns was right to left).
Arabic or Hebrew would be better tests for that.
Chinese is also written left to right
Bicycle color, grass color and sky color are all part of the prompt.
>Cartoon illustration of a white pelican wearing a red scarf, riding a red bicycle along a gray road with white dashed lines; the pelican has a large orange beak and webbed orange feet pedaling, with white motion lines behind it; the background shows a light blue sky with white clouds, a yellow sun, two small black birds in flight, and green grass with tiny white flowers in the foreground
No, the prompt I always use is "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle".
That wasn't the prompt. That text was generated by asking the model to describe an image and feeding it a rendering of the SVG it had previously generated.
I have done some variation of the other animals, also for something more tricky where they need to calculate things, I ask them to draw an SVG at a certain angle.
For example: "generate an SVG of a chessboard seen from a 45 degree angle slightly higher POV" or "generate an SVG of a basketball court from a TV broadcast perspective".
I find Gemini is still the best at creating SVGs.
The art styling is more or less uniform too.
I haven't seen many AI works that produces a pelican on a bicycle done in a "Ligne Claire" style, for example.
I guess AI's narrows down the output probability space drastically and converge on some agreed upon aesthetics. Works great for computer programs but bad for art.
I thought my joke post was silly and then I read new comments and I'm like, "I didn't try hard enough" lol