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AI Reimagines 5 Harry Potter Characters Based on Book Descriptions
OpenAI’s Dall-E2 took the internet by storm in the last few months.
The AI is packed with powerful capabilities from generating images with textual descriptions, and inpainting, to making variations of an existing image.
Today I want to put its impressive capability of making surreal portrait images from textual descriptions to test.
One of my favorite movie series is Harry Potter, which from what I know has some key differences in the appearance of the actors when compared to the way the characters were described in the books.
So here’s what the Harry Potter cast would have looked like if they were reinterpreted by Dall-E2.
Harry Potter
Book description: A boy with thin face, black hair and bright-green eyes. He wore round glasses. very thin scar on forehead
For starters, the Harry Potter from the books is described as having unruly, black hair, while the film version of Harry has much lighter hair. This was likely due to the fact that Daniel Radcliffe, was a natural blonde and they wanted his hair to match the character’s description as closely as possible.
Another big difference is that in the books, Harry is said to have green eyes, while in the films his eyes are blue.
Another difference is that in the books, Harry is described as being quite skinny and not very muscular, while in the films he is portrayed as being much more muscular.
Hermione Granger
Book description: A girl with a bossy sort of voice, lots of bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth
