• All these incredible images were made by an artificial intelligence called Dall-e 2 This AI is impressively turning words into images

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Here the outpainting feature has been used to transform Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring into an image with a much wider canvas.

DALLE-E outpainting in action

A Friend in Need

The outpainting feature can be used on all sorts of things it seems and isn’t just for expanding the sides of a landscape painting.

Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night takes on a whole new aesthetic when run through DALL-E.

Combining paintings

As well as expanding the borders of paintings, this feature of DALL-E can also be used to combine images too.

This time it looks like Quaker Oats has had a rebranding and an eye-opening one at that. 

Kid’s road map

Ever have one of these as a kid and wonder what it would be like if it was even bigger?

Abbey Road

If the focus of the original image hadn’t been so tight on the band members what would we have seen?

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

This portrait of Napolean has been expanded to show more of what’s going on. You’d be perfectly forgiven for assuming this was the original artwork too. 

An apocalyptic Mona Lisa

We’ve never really thought about what Leonardo da Vinci might have painted beyond the confines of the portrait panel. Could it be this?

Tiananmen Square Tank Man

Here’s one of the most iconic images of all time given the outpainting treatment. The tanks in the background are a little off, but it’s still believable.

The Creation of Elephant

Michelangelo’s original painting that famously adorns the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling now shows quite a different view.

Distracted boyfriend

Here one of the most famous memes of current times has been expanded to show a chaotic street surrounding the distracted boyfriend and the others. 

The Persistence of Memory expanded

One of the most recognisable of Salvador Dalí’s works is now even more intrigue with mysterious women and even more clocks. 

American Gothic

We’ve seen some interesting edits and reimaginings of American Gothic over the years, but this one is certainly a surreal vision of the classic painting. 

Disaster Girl

Now we can see more of what’s happened in the surroundings as “Disaster Girl” is pictured smirking at the burning house.