Lab journal
What we tried
Hands-on experiments, written up as they happened — what we tried, what failed, what worked, and what is still open.
7 September 2026
The same character, ten times
Can one reference image hold a character steady across ten pictures? Eighty images, four models, and a failure that raises no error — because the drift has a direction.
11 August 2026
Pulling straws from a quantum computer
Casting the I Ching on IBM hardware, so the falling is decided by physics rather than a seeded function — and what it takes to build a machine around a book we did not write.
Talking heads · 18 June 2026
The elusive 3p talking head
Which hosted talking-head model gives usable course video at a price that scales inside an LMS? A tiered gallery, and no declared winner.
Pilot 1 · 5 May 2026
Decomposing Cooper
Combining generative AI with deterministic tools to edit images in controllable ways — depth masks, face anchors, and the per-pixel operations in between.
