Thanks for the request. I had some time this afternoon to see what DALL-E could come up with and got these.

There isn’t a single prompt to generate these, like you’d get with other image generators. It’s more like having a conversation with someone. So, I asked it to summarize the conversation we used to make these images, and it provided the following:

Of course! Here’s a summary of the visualizations we created for the commands:

1. CURL: The curl command was represented as a pair of shimmering bracelets. When worn, they allowed the user to magically reach out and “fetch” or “pull” distant objects, embodying the essence of the curl command’s functionality.

2. MAN: The man command was visualized as a grotesque tome bound in flesh, symbolizing the manual or “man pages”. The tome was kept in a chilling sorcerer’s study, emphasizing its vast knowledge and somewhat forbidden nature. The tome was later imprisoned in a cage, and its fleshy cover was designed to evoke a sense of malevolence and the arcane.

3. LN: The ln command, which creates links, was visualized as magical chains. These chains symbolized both hard and symbolic links. In one variation, the chains connected two floating books in the sorcerer’s library, signifying the concept of linking files.

4. TOUCH: The touch command, used to create or update files, was represented by a delicate crystal wand. An ethereal hand emerged from the wand, touching the void and materializing a ghostly outline of a blank page, capturing the essence of creating a new, empty file.

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The man command had several stages, and was a lot of fun to work on. Here is what it looked like at each of the previous stages:

I’d like to see vi.

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