#blndr2024a

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Mistigram: one of many similar tableaux resulting from last weekend's Blender improvised art competition, here is an #ANSIart scroller drawn by Darkman Almighty of the Power Rangers conducting a robbery on Arrakis. (In the stillsuit that Fremen at the bottom looks as though they might be auditioning to join the gang!)

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Mistirgam: @zirroneous of Fire Graphics was awarded second place for the most recent Blender improvised computer art competition, with this long #ANSIart interpretation of the topics MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS / ROBBERY / ARRAKIS. We are hosting another Blender this weekend, Apr 20-21, on channel #blender on the EFNet. You are all welcome to particpate! Broad details at https://mistigris.org/blender/blend.html

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Mistigram: Periodically @_n1tron likes to check in with the state of the art for AI handling of ridiculous topics when we assign him nonsense subjects in the Blender improvised art compo. This time around its absurd words were "POWER RANGERS" / "ROBBERY" / and "DUNE" and, well, the hivemind needs to work a little on figuring out what a robbery looks like. But if you need pseudo-textmode generative art on themes of desert tokusatsu (and who among us does not!) ... you could do worse! Naturally these submissions are not eligible for competition, and I would express concerns over the potential of lost employment for skilled producers of niche fanart, but the specific Dune / Power Rangers overlap seems to be a hitherto uncapitalized territory.

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Mistigram: Continuing from his doodles in the previous Blender, Cthulu sampled and coloured some existing #ASCIIart floating around to tell the story of this Blender compo: Power Rangers / robbing / Arrakis. This collage turned up in its infofile.