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Note: Web pages and graphics on this site were produced with the assistance of ChatGPT.

Methods
Images: All art is conceived and designed by heapingscorn.com (me), and rendered by ChapGPT's render engine. I work with chatGPT to create the prompt that will be mostly likely to generate the image we need. Linear storytelling is a huge challenge for AI, and my toolkit is evolving nicely. I often modify illustrations, and create addditional art as needed.

HTML and CCS: ChatGPT scripts about 75% of the html and all of the CCS. I edit and maintain all the pages, though with much assistance from ChatGPT.

Prose: I conceive all the stories and content, and compose and perfect all the narration. ChatGPT's sole writing contributions so far are the excellent artist bios in the Artists Gallery, and the entire Glossary and one of the Notes in Danny's Kaddish (she's funny!).

Tools

  • ChatGPT
  • iPad Air Gen 4 (compact and reliable, but inferior file management and software)
  • Affinity Designer for compositing (super cheap but an incomprehensible UI, buggy, and zero documentation)
  • Affinity Photo for drawing and image editing and management (also super cheap and just as crap as AFF Designer)
  • Koder (a little buggy, but nothing fatal, and easy to use)
  • Namecheap domain and hosting tools (difficult to navigate, but I'm not tech savvy, so over my head from the jump; easy to contact competent tech support)

Feels
Growing the site is a ponderous slog through experiments and incremental tweaks of layout, storytelling, and images. In other words, It's great fun. -heapingscorn.com