A Boy Grows From Toddler to Man

From 2 years old to 28

I stink at guessing ages; I see a little kid, and I don’t know if they’re two or five; I can’t tell a seven-year-old from an eleven-year-old; etc.

So I enlisted AI to render images of a boy from the ages of 1 to 28, to help me get a handle on what the various ages look like, and to generate images that somewhat correspond to my firstborn son at various stages of his life.

My first prompt I fed to the AI robot was “one-year-old blond white boy”; my son’s hair got darker as he got older, so subsequent prompts changed to “four-year-old white boy with brown eyes and light brown hair” and “20-year-old man with brown eyes and brown hair” and so on.

The images don’t look exactly like Kelvin, of course, but some look enough like him to “pass” as a brief squinty glimpse of him, especially, I think, at 2, 12, 19, and 28.

Here are a few of the images:

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28 #2

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Kelvin Caleb Mordecai Shannon, 12/28/1983-3/17/2012-?/?/?-∞

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