My AI CNC Art Description Tool

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I haven't been using AI for productivity, but yesterday I saw a youtube about perplexity ai and got the idea that I could use that to generate image descriptions for my web pages and after building out a built in API interface in my web site - perplexity turned out to be stupid as hell - it was easy to use but it misidentified every other image as a cat facing right with redundant body and tail characteristics even if there was no body or tail in the image - it was a disaster.

Not one to give up so easily, I got to looking around and honed in on google gemini - it was also a disaster because its like documented and trained on old data that is not up to date or concurrent with their own latest ai models which just came out like the day before yesterday - it was way more difficult to figure out - it took a lot of trial and error -

And right when I got it all sorted out, my internet quit working, and somehow a switch had got turned off AND the main router up in the attic simultaneously shit the bed and my whole network was down until I crawled up there and rebooted that.

But then it was amazing - check out the results below - its built into the web page so it works on the fly - and it has genius level writing capability - although I've only spent an hour on a trial run with it - I got 100 pages done in less than an hour and made several improvements in that time.

 

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This blows me away - google gemini was able to describe this low res gif image a lot better than I could ever - the blue text is not AI

This is a CNC art design of an alligator's head, depicted in solid black against a white background. The alligator is shown with its head and part of its back above the water, conveying a sense of stealth and lurking. The design is simplistic yet detailed enough to clearly identify the reptile, suitable for plasma cutting as the solid areas would translate well to a metal cutout. The eye is prominently featured, adding a focal point to the design. Vector DXF SVG clip art originally designed to be cut on metal and sign cutting systems.

https://signtorch.com/super-bundle/animals/alligator-5.html

 

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And this - this is almost unbelievable

This is a silhouette design suitable for CNC plasma cutting depicting a humorous scene. An alligator's head is rendered in profile with its jaws wide open. A small frog is positioned as if it is holding the alligator's jaws open, while a tiny insect or fly sits atop the alligator's snout. The image uses simple, clean lines and solid fills, which would translate well to a cut metal piece. The composition creates a playful and unexpected juxtaposition of scale and power. Vector Art for sign making. CNC Plasma cutting, CNC LAser cutting, CNC Router, Engraving, vinyl-cutting plotter vector clip art.

https://signtorch.com/super-bundle/animals/alligator-6.html

 

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here's what my built in API interface looks like - once I get through testing and seeing how it works and where it needs improvement - it will work on the fly and generate the image descriptions automatically when the page loads - which is good because I doo have like 15,000 designs that need image descriptions...

 

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Well, the better it gets, the worse it gets.

I was able to use my good old stencil factor marks to inform it how the design geometry is structured.

I've only ran it for a couple of hours and it completed almost a thousand descriptions, so at that rate it will have all 15,000 designs done in a couple of weeks or less.

But I'm going to hit the brakes while I try to figure out how to prompt Ai more precisely.

The more I try to refine it the more it comes up with other unnecessary nonsense.

Its amazing how it can ignore the water marks, but it can find things that aren't there.

 

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Here I got it to say when a design has two file types with centerline and annular cuts for thin details

The image presents a stylized depiction of a hawk perched on a branch, rendered in solid black silhouette against a white background. The bird's form is characterized by simplified lines defining its features, including its head, beak, wing, and talons gripping the branch. The overall design is intended for CNC machine cutting. This design comes in two files with both centerline and annular cuts for thin details. Vector Graphics and DXF files for CNC machine cutting, Ready To Cut DXF SVG Cut Files Vector Graphics for machine cutting.

 

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And this shows how I got it to say when a design is a pure silhouette so it can be cut out of or into a sheet of material

The image shows a silhouette of a Wire Fox Terrier. The dog is standing in profile, exhibiting its distinctive wiry coat, erect ears, and docked tail. The design is a single, closed vector path outlining the dog's form. It can be used to create a cutout of the dog shape or a stencil where the dog shape is removed from a larger piece. Vector sign clipart files in AutoCAD .DXF, and Scalable Vector Graphics .SVG formats.

 

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Then it tries to come up with ever different ways to say the same thing, getting off track, less clear, and more inconsistent.

So I still have some work to do to get it to be more concise and consistent.

 

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Ok, If you can do something without AI, then don't bother trying to do it with AI. AI does not really understand anything, it is just guessing about everything. Show it the same image over and over and it will randomly say that it is facing to the left and then it will say it is facing to the right. Left becomes right, up becomes down, in becomes out, forward becomes backward, etc.

But it is good with words.

An obscure European commercial crawler bot loaded several thousand pages before I finished fine tuning the prompt syntax, so I had to erase all those descriptions after I made some progress on getting it to describe things more naturally.

I also created a spreadsheet style interface to quickly review lots of results and update edits quickly without reloading.

I think I 've got it going on now. Its generating descriptions that I can live with. And I'm not having to make too many corrections.