{ "date": "2026-09-09", "method": "Identical original prompt per scene; first successful result; one output per model/scene; no creative retouching. Web display copies use WebP quality 90 without resizing. No equal-cost, equal-compute, latency, identity-preservation, or advertising-performance claim.", "prompts": [ { "id": "moon-repair", "prompt": "An exquisitely crafted cinematic miniature of a midnight repair shop for broken moons. A fictional elderly clockmaker with silver hair, round glasses and a worn rust-red apron sits at a tiny walnut workbench, carefully repairing a glowing cracked crescent moon held upright in a brass clamp. His two natural hands hold fine tweezers and a small brush, fingers clearly separated. Several small cratered moons rest on velvet cushions on the shelves, one moon hangs from a delicate pulley. The room has deep petrol-blue walls, drawers of tiny brass tools, paper star charts without readable writing, warm amber task lights and dusty shafts of cool moonlight through a round window. Rich tactile detail in wood, patinated metal, wool and lunar plaster, fine handmade imperfections, enchanting stop-motion set craftsmanship photographed at eye level with a macro lens, layered depth and restrained film grain. Quiet concentration, visual storytelling, sophisticated art direction, not a toy advertisement. Square image, the clockmaker and glowing crescent are the clear focal point. No text, logos, lettering, borders or watermark." }, { "id": "glacier-greenhouse", "prompt": "A breathtaking but physically believable architectural photograph of a small warm greenhouse built inside a vast translucent blue glacial cavern. A slender oxidized copper staircase curls gently from the icy floor into a glass pavilion filled with fern trees and large tropical leaves. One fictional adult botanist in a mustard-yellow coat stands inside, giving human scale. Thick sculpted ice walls reveal bubbles, cracks and milky veins; soft daylight passes through the ice ceiling, while warm lamps in the pavilion illuminate condensation on the glass. A perfectly still shallow pool reflects the greenhouse. Precise architectural geometry, realistic glass reflections and structural joints, delicate plants, huge sense of scale, pale cyan and warm copper palette, an elegant architecture magazine cover photograph without typography. Wide camera view with negative space and a strong single focal point, 35 mm perspective, natural atmospheric depth. Square image. No text, logos, lettering, borders or watermark." }, { "id": "ceramic-tide", "prompt": "An exceptionally beautiful surreal food still-life photograph: a handmade midnight-blue ceramic bowl holds a miniature tidal sea, with one curled ribbon of translucent rice noodle forming a graceful breaking wave above it. A tiny white fishing boat rides the wave beside luminous orange salmon-roe beads like floating lanterns. Wisps of steam curl through soft evening light. A single pair of dark walnut chopsticks rests neatly on the stone counter beside the bowl, with a subtle scatter of sea salt and one green shiso leaf. Every food material is believable and appetizing, wet translucent noodles, glossy roe, rough ceramic glaze with fine crazing, delicate water reflections, no plastic-looking food. Deep indigo, warm amber and muted jade palette, refined Japanese-inspired still-life composition, high-end editorial food photography, 85 mm macro perspective, tactile detail, controlled highlights and deep soft shadows. Magical realism with a clear clean silhouette, square image. No text, logos, lettering, borders or watermark." }, { "id": "rooftop-radio", "prompt": "A cinematic environmental portrait of a fictional 68-year-old woman operating a homemade shortwave radio on the rooftop of a densely built Mediterranean city just before sunrise. She has a weathered olive face, deep expressive smile lines, dark thoughtful eyes, loose silver hair and a beautiful hand-knitted rust-orange cardigan over a simple navy dress. Chest-up three-quarter composition at eye level. One hand naturally rests on the radio tuning knob with coherent fingers; the other is outside the frame. A large copper wire antenna rises behind her, blue and ivory laundry moves softly on a line, and distant rooftops dissolve into hazy dawn. Cool lavender sky and a small warm desk lamp light her face from different directions. Real pores, uneven skin tone, fine facial hair, believable elderly anatomy, no beauty retouching. The emotional intimacy of a still from an independent film, fine 35 mm grain, delicate halation and authentic lens depth. Square image with her face as the focal point. No readable text on the radio, lettering, logos, borders or watermark." }, { "id": "anime-rain-train", "prompt": "An original hand-painted 1990s cel-animation film still. A fictional adult young woman with a short ink-black bob and a moss-green raincoat waits on the tiny platform of a railway station that floats above a flooded city at blue hour. She holds a transparent umbrella; a huge gentle koi fish swims through the air behind the telephone wires, its copper scales catching the warm windows of an approaching train. Wide contemplative composition, precise ink contours with subtle line-weight variation, flat cel-shaded characters against richly hand-painted gouache backgrounds, delicate rain streaks, puddle reflections, violet shadows and saffron light. Believable adult anatomy and expressive quiet face, cinematic framing, nostalgic analog grain. No existing characters. Square artwork, no writing, logos, signatures, border or watermark." }, { "id": "watercolor-sky-library", "prompt": "An original watercolor fantasy anime illustration of a traveling library carried on the broad shell of an enormous gentle tortoise walking through pale morning clouds. A fictional adult woman librarian with windswept red hair and an indigo cloak sits on a wooden balcony reading a book, with a small white cat curled beside her. Crooked shelves filled with colorful books, hanging ferns, tiny brass lamps, soft feathered clouds drifting through open windows. Loose expressive pencil outlines, translucent watercolor washes, granulating ultramarine pigments, warm ochre and muted coral accents, visible cold-pressed paper texture and deliberate untouched white spaces. Airy sophisticated composition with the whole tortoise visible, delicate anime character design and coherent anatomy. No existing characters. Square illustration, no readable text, logos, signatures, border or watermark." }, { "id": "woodblock-lunar-heron", "prompt": "An original Japanese woodblock-inspired fine art print of a tall white heron standing in a shallow indigo tidal pool on the moon. A large rust-red sun and a tiny blue Earth hang in a muted ivory sky. Black reeds curve elegantly around the bird, pale ripples form graphic concentric arcs, cratered cliffs rise at the sides. Confident carved outlines, flat limited colors of deep indigo, vermilion, ivory and pale sage, visible wood grain, handmade washi paper texture, subtle pigment registration imperfections, carefully balanced negative space, elegant asymmetrical composition. The heron has anatomically coherent legs, beak, wings and detailed layered feathers rendered as carved shapes. Quiet surreal poetry, refined traditional printmaking craftsmanship. Square image, no text, calligraphy, seals, logos, signatures, border or watermark." }, { "id": "clay-cloud-bakery", "prompt": "An original handcrafted stop-motion clay animation set: a tiny bakery inside the hollow trunk of an ancient tree, where a fictional adult baker with a round freckled face, rolled-up blue sleeves and a flour-dusted apron gently lifts a freshly baked crescent-shaped cloud from a copper oven using two oven mitts. Shelves of miniature cloud pastries glow softly, a sleepy orange cat rests on a sack of flour, rain falls outside a small round window. Every surface is tactile clay, felt, carved wood or patinated metal, with subtle fingerprints, tiny dents and hand-painted details, believable miniature construction. Warm amber oven light contrasts with cool teal rainlight, intimate eye-level camera, precise focal hierarchy and natural miniature depth of field. Gentle humor, coherent hands and body, no plastic CGI gloss. Square frame, no text, logos, signatures, borders or watermark." } ], "settings": { "gpt-image-2": { "provider": "openai", "endpoint": "/v1/images/generations", "parameters": { "model": "gpt-image-2", "quality": "high", "size": "1024x1024", "n": 1, "output_format": "png" } }, "gpt-image-2.5-flare": { "provider": "openai", "endpoint": "/v1/images/generations", "parameters": { "model": "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "quality": "high", "size": "1024x1024", "n": 1, "output_format": "png" } }, "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst": { "provider": "openai", "endpoint": "/v1/images/generations", "parameters": { "model": "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst", "quality": "high", "size": "1024x1024", "n": 1, "output_format": "png" } }, "nano-banana-2": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "fal-ai/nano-banana-2", "parameters": { "aspect_ratio": "1:1", "resolution": "1K", "output_format": "png", "num_images": 1 } }, "nano-banana-pro": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "fal-ai/nano-banana-pro", "parameters": { "aspect_ratio": "1:1", "resolution": "1K", "output_format": "png", "num_images": 1 } }, "flux-2": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "fal-ai/flux-2", "parameters": { "image_size": "square_hd", "output_format": "png", "num_images": 1 } }, "krea-2-large": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "krea/v2/large/text-to-image", "parameters": { "aspect_ratio": "1:1", "creativity": "medium" } }, "seedream-5-pro": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "bytedance/seedream/v5/pro/text-to-image", "parameters": { "image_size": "square_hd", "output_format": "png", "num_images": 1 } }, "ideogram-4": { "provider": "fal-ai", "endpoint": "ideogram/v4", "parameters": { "image_size": "square_hd", "expansion_model": "None", "rendering_speed": "QUALITY", "output_format": "png", "num_images": 1 } } }, "matrix": [ { "scene": "moon-repair", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst", "nano-banana-2", "nano-banana-pro", "flux-2", "krea-2-large", "seedream-5-pro", "ideogram-4" ] }, { "scene": "glacier-greenhouse", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst", "nano-banana-2", "nano-banana-pro", "flux-2", "krea-2-large", "seedream-5-pro", "ideogram-4" ] }, { "scene": "ceramic-tide", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst", "nano-banana-2", "nano-banana-pro", "flux-2", "krea-2-large", "seedream-5-pro", "ideogram-4" ] }, { "scene": "rooftop-radio", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst", "nano-banana-2", "nano-banana-pro", "flux-2", "krea-2-large", "seedream-5-pro", "ideogram-4" ] }, { "scene": "anime-rain-train", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst" ] }, { "scene": "watercolor-sky-library", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst" ] }, { "scene": "woodblock-lunar-heron", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst" ] }, { "scene": "clay-cloud-bakery", "models": [ "gpt-image-2", "gpt-image-2.5-flare", "gpt-image-2.5-sunburst" ] } ], "exceptions": [ "One ceramic-tide Ideogram 4 request returned 422; the identical prompt succeeded on retry." ] }