Weekly challenge- Futuristic Cityscape

Didn't go all that well ...

As a kid/young man, I used to really groove over Art Deco visions of the future, like you'd see on old Popular Mechanix and Life magazines. So I thought I'd order one up through Firefly. It didn't go well.

First pass I got this:

That didn't work, so I simplified through three iterations to get this dashboard:

"Whizzing around" and "deco" seem to be the offending text for the Firefly prompts. When I simplified the request, these were the best two images I got:

Basically, two shots of the New York City skyline, featuri;ng the Empire State and Chrysler biuldings, with clipart spaceships floating around. So in this case, it looks like Firefly is better at assembling art elements rather than creating them.

Futuristic images are always shiny with metal and glass, so I tried to push it to create something more colorful to reflect the art and culture that I hope we appreciate in the future. 

Prompt:"a vision of a colorful future city with roads replaced by grass, trees and lush green parkway. There are people eating outdoors in a courtyard, commuting on bicicles, and buildings painted in a bright array of colors with innovative architecture. plants everywhere; concept art"

busy city street of the future with people running, storm clouds, and buildings that reach into the clouds.

Prompt: futuristic city, organic architecture, ultra advanced technology, lots of large trees and plants with colorful flowers, people in a modern botanical garden

'An environmentally friendly futuristic city in harmony with plantlife and wildlife, a monorail and small boats on connected waterways with people walking over bridges'

This was interesting, I tried so many options, and mostly at least one aspect was ignored. I then got many with a huge cityscape in the distance rather than the image be of the city.

detailed illustration of a flying furutistic city above the clouds, high advance technology, beautiful nature, with green parks, trees, mixed with futuristic builds, futuristic aircrafts flying around, imaginative architecture. golden hour, soft focus, high detailed, wide view

A city where technology and nature coexist in harmony. At street level people walk and use bikes.

futuristic city NYC with monorails, flying cars, dark, gloomy in 2924

A futuristic city run by animals without humans

Prompt: black and white pen sketch of a futuristic street corner a noir look bright lights in the shop across the road the viewer is looking down along a busy full of people and robots long street to the expansive futuristic citys