Cat Playing Piano, in the style of

Ev Williams
4 min readOct 19, 2022

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Here are 40 images I generated with Distropic, an interface to Stable Diffusion, a deep-learning, text-to-image AI.

These are rather prosaic in the world of AI imagery these days, but I wanted to get a sense of what it was like to use these engines. And, well, it’s mind-blowing, impressive, sometimes hilarious, sometimes creepy — and quite fun.

Distropic is cool because you can fork off of other people’s prompts, so it’s collaboratively creative (which is where I got “cat playing piano”). But there are suddenly lots of other easily accessible UIs for playing with this stuff, such as this one from Hugging Face. I haven’t spent much time with DALL-E, so I don’t know how it compares Stable Diffusion or others.

The world is getting weirder by the minute.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Jean-Michel Basquiat (computer-generated)

David Hockney

Cat Playing Piano in the style of David Hockney (computer-generated)

Pablo Picasso

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Pablo Picasso (computer-generated)

Andy Warhol

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Andy Warhol (computer-generated)

Salvador Dali

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Salvador Dali (computer-generated)

Johannes Vermeer

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Johannes Vermeer (computer-generated)

Rembrandt

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Rembrandt (computer-generated)

Frida Kahlo

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Frida Kahlo (computer-generated)

Henri Matisse

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Henri Matisse (computer-generated)

René Magritte

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Rene Magritte (computer-generated)

Hieronymus Bosch

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Hieronymus Bosch (computer-generated)

Vincent van Gogh

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Vincent van Gogh (computer-generated)

Paul Cézanne

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Paul Cezanne (computer-generated)

Georgia O’Keeffe

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Georgia O’Keeffe (computer-generated)

Raphael

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Raphael (computer-generated)

Edward Hopper

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Edward Hopper (computer-generated)

Claude Monet

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Claude Monet (computer-generated)

Jackson Pollock

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Jackson Pollock (computer-generated)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Renoir (computer-generated)

Édouard Manet

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Manet (computer-generated)

Paul Gauguin

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Gauguin (computer-generated)

Edward Munch

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Edward Munch (computer-generated)

Wassily Kandinsky

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Wassily Kandinsky (computer-generated)

Georges Seurat

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Georges Seurat (computer-generated)

Grant Wood

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Grant Wood (computer-generated)

Jasper Johns

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Jasper Johns (computer-generated)

Paul Klee

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Paul Klee (computer-generated)

Mark Rothko

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Mark Rothko (computer-generated)

Roy Lichtenstein

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Roy Lichtenstein (computer-generated)

Max Ernst

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Max Ernst (computer-generated)

Willem de Kooning

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Willem de Kooning (computer-generated)

Alexander Calder

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Alexander Calder (computer-generated)

Yayoi Kusama

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Yayoi Kusama (computer-generated)

Cecily Brown

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Cecily Brown (computer-generated)

Takashi Murakami

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Takashi Murakami (computer-generated)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Njideka Akunyili Crosby (computer-generated)

George Condo

Cat Playing Piano in the style of George Condo (computer-generated)

Keith Haring

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Keith Haring (computer-generated)

Barry Mcgee

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Barry Mcgee (computer-generated)

Ellsworth Kelly

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Ellsworth Kelly (computer-generated)

Addendum, courtesy of Philip Kaplan (creator of DistroKid / Distropic):

Banksy

Cat Playing Piano in the style of Banksy (computer-generated)

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Ev Williams

Curious human, chairman @ Medium, partner @ Obvious Ventures