The classic Macintosh was just brilliantly redesigned by AI
The classic Macintosh was just brilliantly redesigned by AI Digital Trends
The classic Macintosh was just redesigned by AI — and it’ s beautiful
September 26, 2022 Share made his own renditions of the classic Macintosh using the artwork generator. Stable Diffusion is an AI-based image generator that uses text to develop art that the user wants to create. You can simply type in a description of what you want to create, and the Stable Diffusion generator will draft up an image that matches the text description — and these results are brilliant. Troughton-Smith shared some of his favorite outcomes from the generator via a Twitter post last Thursday. Each image has a unique design, imagining the classic Macintosh with different aspects such as a rounded display, a flat keyboard much like a modern Mac, thicker and more elaborate mechanical-looking keyboard setups, a separate module resembling a Mac Studio on one design, and various extra screens, ports, knobs, and buttons on a number of iterations. “Learning how to get great output from an AI image generator like Stable Diffusion from a text prompt and various knobs and sliders is a whole other way of programming,” Troughton-Smith said in a tweet. What about an alternate history where Stable Diffusion designed the Macintosh? — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) “It takes a lot of tweaking and iteration, trying to coalesce conceptual ideas into meaningful words/phrases,” he added. Among other designs on the thread include old and new renditions of the iPod, and what Troughton-Smith described as “fever-dream alternatives to the original iMac.” The app designer isn’t the only person who has been inspired by the classic Macintosh in 2022. Earlier this year, , a young concept designer who often works with popular leakers like Jon Prosser, of his idea of a modern-day Macintosh, fully equipped with a webcam, as well as updated input and output, such as HDMI and USB-C ports in place of a floppy disk drive.