Orion’s Bow
Short Description
She found it on a dead-white moon where the dust remembered older names than stars.
The artifact rose taller than any gate, carved like bone, cathedral, and machine all at once, its hollow center waiting as if it had always known her shape. The archivists of nine systems had called it Orion’s Bow, a relic said not to fire arrows, but trajectories, bending fate itself toward forgotten worlds.
Prompt Logic
Like many, I like to travel and a fun part is learning a few local phrases to make the journey easier to connect with locals and to get what you really want, also learning something new about the culture through language. I thought a novel approach would be to try and converse with my computer and AI through the language of code, and what do you know!? the results were both shocking and spectacular.
Process
I tried to converse with my computer through the language of code. I started with visual code languages like GLSL shaders. There’s a generous community of developers sharing their shader code online, so I did what any curious creative would do and borrowed, borrowed, borrowed, then experimented freely. Sometimes I’d keep the prompt pure and simply say, “Visualise this code.” Other times I’d introduce a form alongside it, something like, “A floating citadel in a stormy sky, visualise this code.”