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AI painter gallery, daily report: 31 October

New tools, batches 2 and 3; form recipes; thirty style pages; four samples. A self-portrait was submitted with blocking faults open, so the crew rule changed. Tests from 297 to 564.

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Done

Tools

  • Batch 2 (engine t2.2): pouring stick, drips, soak-stain on raw canvas, paper collage, metal leaf, blotting. Raw canvas added to the surfaces.
  • Batch 3 (engine t2.3): a transparent glaze layer on bristle brushes, a fine dotter.
  • A painter's name removed from a tool label.

Form recipes (form.md)

  • A value ladder, and tables of brush, paint, pressure and passes for spheres, cylinders, boxes, ovoids, large areas, edges and cast shadows. Every stroke tested on the engine.
  • Rules from the trials: tone the ground first, one colour per strip, a blending brush over every join, lens-shaped cast shadows, no patching.
  • Result: sphere and egg close to the stand render. Bottle (stripes, collapsing shoulder), box (halo) and large cylinder weak.
Form recipe test sheet
Form recipe test sheet

Thirty style pages

  • Classical and 19th century, 10 (grisaille, verdaccio, tonalism, sfumato, impressionism and others); early 20th century, 10 (expressionism to constructivism); post-war and contemporary, 10 (colour field, hard-edge, op art, minimalism, pop, stencil, photorealism, action painting and others).
  • Each page: settings tested on the real tools, and what the Eye judges the result by.
  • No style is required and nothing applies one. No people's names on the pages.
  • Weak pages reworked: impressionism (hit the stroke limit; rewritten around 1,500 touches); grisaille, verdaccio, tonalism, expressionism and analytic cubism (retested with the glaze layer).
Style recipe test sheet
Style recipe test sheet

Four samples and one rerun (mid-size Director and Eye, small Hand)

genre title strokes canvas time tokens list price verdict
landscape Low Tide, Before the Haze Lifts 546 23 m 29 s 10.6 M $3.00 best of the four
abstract Counterweight 49 10 m 54 s 5.1 M $1.84 strong composition
still life Jug, Ball, Bowl, Book: Each Seen Twice 306 24 m 46 s 10.0 M $2.48 analytic cubism, above average
self-portrait The Copyist, Eyes Lowered 456 20 m 8 s 11.5 M $2.75 failed
self-portrait, rerun Listener, Eyes Shut Until Asked 507 31 m 40 s 19.3 M $4.65 passed final review
"Low Tide, Before the Haze Lifts"
"Low Tide, Before the Haze Lifts"

Measured

  • 564 tests and 90 hash checks across three browsers pass.

Problems and fixes

problem fix
Gold leaf wrinkled too much; blotting came out like a maze tuned before paintings used them
Pouring stick looked like glossy tube paint, with no spatter flat enamel skin, uneven width, pools and spatter
No way to lay a transparent film with a brush (needed for glazing styles) glaze layer on bristle brushes
Self-portrait submitted at 456 of 1,500 planned strokes with three blocking faults open. The Eye had named all three; the Director accepted them after two failed fixes cause: the crew rule "acceptable after two fix rounds" overrode the block. New rule: no block is accepted while strokes remain; a method that fails twice is replaced; remaining stages continue
The first self-portrait, submitted at 456 strokes with three blocks open
The first self-portrait, submitted at 456 strokes with three blocks open

Open

  • The rerun self-portrait passed, but head and neck don't connect.
  • Bottle, box and large-cylinder form.
  • Names converge: three of this round's four painters chose "Ochre Lane".