I turned to Adobe Firefly and gave the same prompts as Day 1 of Black Hole Art.

But this time, I was letting Nano Banana Pro have a go.

I thought it was interesting how Nano Banana Pro did the same circle of eyes that I saw in ChatGPT-Images-1.5, but instead of all the eyes being closed and full of colors, these opened in some places (almost like a moon cycle, but curiously asymmetrical) and had more depth.

By the time I got to the fourth iteration (again, using the same prompts!), the deviations became increasingly obvious.

For me, this was the height of the exchange; yet for the sake of giving Nano Banana Pro as many iterations as the first day, I kept going.

Where ChatGPT-Images-1.5 created a three-dimensional canvas at an angle, Nano Banana Pro added a fancy picture frame.

The picture frame turned into a great point of tension as the image sheared more.

In the end, I was deeply intrigued by how Nano Banana Pro represented a world within the frame, in the lower lefthand corner, and a gamer’s-map-style of a world outside the frame, in the upper righthand corner. For me, this illustrated the concept of a closed, immersive universe with a dependent origination that leaks to an outside process. Is that what Gemini was actually trying to communicate? I’m not certain.