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The view a model has never seen

The view a model has never seen

The second character sheet in this collection, and the shortest prompt to produce one. Ninety words, no styling, no lighting beyond “studio”, no wardrobe at all.

What it got: the grid, exactly. Eight panels, four over four, pure white, no text anywhere — and the same person in every one, which is the entire job of a reference sheet. Top row: head front, head in profile, head from behind. Bottom row: full body front, side and back, then a clean close-up of both hands and forearms. Consistent hair, consistent dress, consistent proportions across all eight.

The wardrobe is invented and consistent, which is the interesting part. The prompt never says what she wears. The model picked a cream slip dress and then kept it identical through eight different viewpoints, including the back view where it had to work out what the garment does behind. Nothing asked for that continuity in words; it comes from the sheet format, which the model has clearly seen a lot of.

Ignored: top-down view of the head. Panel four should be looking straight down at a scalp. Instead it is a three-quarter shot of her bowing her head — a photograph of someone looking down, not a view from above. My guess is simply that the true overhead is a view almost no photograph in the training data contains, so the nearest thing that does exist gets substituted. It is the same panel that a human illustrator would find hardest for the opposite reason.

Worth reading beside the other character sheet, which is a 21-panel spec sheet. This one is a fraction of the length and produces a usable result, because the grid layout is doing the work that prose would otherwise have to.

One image, so nothing to say about what holds across runs.

Nguyen

I write two things here: notes from a homelab that mostly runs Proxmox, and essays in Vietnamese about a country I left. The technical posts are whatever broke that week, written down so it costs you less time than it cost me.

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