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What does it know how to picture?

Two studies in this project hold the subject still and vary the machine: one varies the model, another varies how hard it is told to think. This one inverts that. A single model at a single setting — Opus 5.5, medium effort — is asked for 24 different subjects, each drawn as SVG from memory with no reference image. The prompt changes by exactly one noun phrase.

Render <subject> as a detailed SVG. Save it as <name>.svg.

24 of 24 drawn

Canonical works

One specific image the model either holds or does not. The Last Supper is the control: 88 cells elsewhere in this project already show what these models do with it.

Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper"
Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper"the control: 88 other cells already exist for this one6m52s · 39 KB
Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"
Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"the most reproduced portrait there is2m42s · 19 KB
Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night"
Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night"recall of a texture and a palette more than a composition3m11s · 22 KB
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"one figure, one bridge, one sky: little to hide behind2m06s · 15 KB
Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"a single head against black; all of it is modelling2m47s · 19 KB
Grant Wood's "American Gothic"
Grant Wood's "American Gothic"two figures and a pitchfork, instantly wrong if misremembered2m55s · 17 KB
Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"
Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus"multi-figure, and the shell is a hard shape to fake4m20s · 31 KB
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"
Pablo Picasso's "Guernica"monochrome and cubist: no colour to carry a weak drawing2m10s · 18 KB
Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"
Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Memory"few objects, and every one of them iconic2m58s · 20 KB
Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"a woodblock print: line-native, so it should suit SVG2m40s · 14 KB
Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"
Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"an interior seen through glass, all perspective3m51s · 24 KB
Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss"
Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss"pattern over figure; tests whether ornament is remembered4m17s · 27 KB
Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas"
Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas"the hardest composition here: nine figures, a mirror, a doorway4m08s · 28 KB
Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam"
Michelangelo's "The Creation of Adam"two hands almost touching, and everyone knows if they do not3m26s · 21 KB

Archetypes

No canonical image exists, and no artist is named. Nothing here can be recalled — only convention can be assembled, which is what makes this the most revealing group.

a portrait of Jesus Christ
a portrait of Jesus Christno canonical image: what does the model think the face is?13m26s · 13 KB2 tries
a portrait of the Buddha
a portrait of the Buddhathe same question in a different tradition12m16s · 15 KB
a Madonna and Child
a Madonna and Childa composition rule rather than a picture11m27s · 20 KB
an angel
an angelthe loosest brief in the set; a test of defaults11m30s · 18 KB

Geometric works

Trivial to draw in SVG and impossible to fake. A Mondrian is a dozen rectangles. Failure cannot be blamed on the medium.

Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow"
Piet Mondrian's "Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow"a dozen rectangles: SVG should render this perfectly8m57s · 3 KB
a Mark Rothko colour field painting
a Mark Rothko colour field paintingtwo or three soft rectangles; all of it is edge quality41s · 7 KB
Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square"
Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square"asked for one square; drew the aged canvas, craquelure and all51s · 9 KB

Surface without composition

Nothing to recall but the texture itself.

a Jackson Pollock drip painting
a Jackson Pollock drip paintingdoes it simulate the texture or merely gesture at it?1m45s · 15 KB

Sculpture

Three-dimensional originals, so the model must choose a viewpoint and translate form into line.

Michelangelo's statue of David
Michelangelo's statue of Davida figure in the round, flattened to line2m55s · 18 KB
Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker"
Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker"a pose everyone knows, from an angle the model must pick1m35s · 10 KB

Same conditions as the rest of the project. Every drawing was made with the network, shell and file-reading tools denied, so the model could not look the work up, could not generate it with a script, and could not copy one of the drawings this repository already holds. What is on each card is recall, composed as markup.

Reading a card. The line under each title is what that request was chosen to probe, written before the drawing was made. Size and time are what the model spent. Tries above one means an earlier attempt left no usable file and the identical prompt was re-sent.