View from La Gras (2022)
View from the Window at Le Gras is a heliographic image and the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was created by French inventor Nicéphore Niépce in either 1826 or 1827 in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France, and shows parts of the buildings and surrounding countryside of his estate, Le Gras, as seen from a high window.
In 2022, I fed the image into SnowPixel to see what it could recreate from it.
In 2025, I assigned the same task to chatGPT, with the following results:
MidJourney v7 was a little less cheerful:
