I couldn’t stop myself. Here are 70 AI-generated renderings of NBA Jam.

AI-based generative art tools are becoming increasingly accessible. I’m using a tool that links two neural networks: CLIP and VQ-GAN, to ingest text and generate images, and the results are amazing to say the least. The details are well-documented, so I’ll let others explain what’s going on in more depth. A tutorial on how to get started can be found here.

NBA Jam unmodified by a “style”

I rendered NBA Jam 70 different ways, keeping the subject matter the same and varying the style with every iteration. When I say “style” I mean anything that came to mind that might modify it in an interesting way.

Every one of these renderings was done with input: “NBA Jam | [style]” using 400 iterations (I’ve found that you get a pretty good sense of where it’s going by that point.)

Why pick NBA Jam? It seemed to produce interesting results.

1950s magazine ad, cereal box art, art deco

outrun, retrofuturism, hyperrealistic

architectural drawing, behance, dribbble

retro illustration, photorealistic, graffiti

Psychadelic, Blind Contour, Cross-Stitch

Yoshitaka Amano, Cartoon, Film Noir Poster

meme, Chuck Close style photo collage, surrealism

dystopian, photo collage, detailed

heaven, hell, child’s drawing made out of crayons

futuristic, cave painting, big head mode

can’t remember, neontokyo, tokyo cyberpunk

graphic design, disco, fancy

italian stereotype, caricature, desert modern

alternate universe, charcoal drawing, portrait

stained glass, playstation, lego

retrowave, synthwave, vaporwave

old-timey medicine bottle label, etching, watercolor

superdeformed, with jetpacks, low poly

national geographic, pixar, comic book art

anime, artstation, isometric pixelart artstation

disney illustration, bokeh, concept art

pixiv, cover art, technicolor

jetpacks (earlier render — 200), mid century modern, hyperrealistic