This year we will celebrate colorful birds this #AvianAugust! 🌈 I've focused on curating a list of birds that will flood our feeds with fun and vibrant-colored birds.

✨ How to join: * Use the daily prompts as your guide to create bird art each day in August~ or pick a few favorites and go at your own pace! * Post your work anywhere you like and tag it with #AvianAugust or #AvianAugust2026 so we can all find and share each other’s work. You are also free to tag me in your posts (this will help me keep up with your work).

If you decide to participate, don't pressure yourself to finish the full list. Be sure to take breaks and pace yourself, and *most of all* have fun!

I am SO excited to hear what you think of the chosen birds, and I'm even more excited to see your art of them. 🌈🐦

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

>onions

>my onions

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.