The Magic Flower

While Nano Bananas has been doing a rather poor job of translating my image prompts into what I want, it did a pretty good job in dealing with what I wanted this image transformed into. Figure 1 shows the original image as it is appeared in a Cliff Pickover tweet.

Figure 1

This was my prompt:

This image, showing the numbers from 1 to 81 connected by lines, has been referred to as a magic flower. Can you enclose each number shown in a circle just large enough to contain the number and retaining the white background. Outside of these circles, I want the petals coloured in soft rainbow colours. The number at the centre, 41, should also be surrounded by its small circle but this central area, outside the circle containing 41 but inside the outer boundary, should be coloured yellow. The area outside the petals to the edges of the image should remain while and any text or imperfections should be removed.

Figure 2 shows the satisfying result that is clearly much more visually appealing than the original and the numbers are also easier to identify. This is what Cliff added in his tweet: 

"Magic flower."  Each line segment sums to 123.  Example: 6 + 37 + 80 = 123.  Each numerical entry, from 1 to 81, is depicted only once in the figure.

Figure 2

For once, Nano Bananas delivered the goods. It clearly works better when an actual image is provided that you want modified. For example, in my previous post titled 28003: A Lesson Learned, the program kept creating the number 2803 instead of 28003, despite repeated requests to correct the error. In the end I gave up and got ChatGPT to create what I wanted and that's where the image in the blog post came from. I think what I should have done was to make a rough sketch of what I wanted and uploaded that. I'll do that in future.