caratulai

an alien image generator

Carátula (Spanish): the cover sheet — the first image you meet. Concepts go in, simple vector images in fundamental palettes come out — the lineage runs from the Voyager Golden Record through Picasso's line.

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Caratula generated with the contento profile
contento
Caratula generated with the sagan profile
sagan
Caratula generated with the picasso profile
picasso
Caratula generated with the jung profile
jung
Caratula generated with the carlin profile
carlin
Caratula generated with the freud profile
freud
Caratula generated with the gabriel profile
gabriel
Caratula generated with the trungpa profile
trungpa

Quick start

Requires Node ≥ 20 and pnpm.

git clone https://github.com/contento/caratulai
cd caratulai
pnpm install && pnpm build

./caratulai.sh generate star water travel --profile sagan --out out/idea.svg

Tags, narrative text, URLs, or images in — an SVG seal in a fundamental palette out. See the README and wiki for the full profile list, providers, and configuration.