An interesting item cribbed from
Jim:
WordsEye is an experimental system that takes sentences in English (such as "The marmalade sky. The zebra skin ground is red. The sun is large. The hippo is next to the horse.") and renders them as images (such as
this one). There's a wealth of example images
here. It can represent abstract ideas (such as
"John believes the cat is not blue", and automatically infer how to symbolise that something happened at a certain time, and map adjectives to textures. Of course, sometimes it gets amusing results, such as its rendering of
"John looks at the cat on the skateboard", or, indeed,
"the devil is in the details".
I wonder how it would render "enraged baboon fucking a nipple factory"