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Experiment · complete

Organic Chrome long-prompt calibration

Which live lanes accept and follow the full style-deconstruction prompt?

Runs
21
Variable
provider/model lane
Prompt
oc26-calibration-prompt v1.0

Protocol

Operator-directed Organic Chrome campaign: translucent glass/chrome organic geometry on a near-black editorial field, evaluated through controlled replication, direction expansion, and final concept rounds.

Frozen prompt template

CONTROL PROMPT AB-OC-R1-001. Create a square 1:1 abstract luxury-tech campaign image with no text, no logo, no product, and no people. The subject is one enormous procedural three-dimensional structure made from dozens of smooth elongated translucent-chrome ribbons and glassy tubular loops. The strands sweep in dense parallel arcs from the upper-right corner toward the center-left, then curl back into a layered coil at the lower-right, like an impossible synthetic palm frond or magnetic field frozen in glass. Material: highly polished clear resin fused with liquid chrome, emerald green body color, mint and icy-cyan specular streaks, subtle internal refraction, dark green edge tint, razor-clean glossy highlights. Composition: extreme macro crop; the structure is cropped by the top and right edges; the left half and lower-left remain mostly empty near-black negative space; asymmetric editorial framing; deep black-green background; rounded-corner campaign-card feeling but no visible border. Lighting: controlled studio render, narrow cool strip lights, bright mint rim highlights, rich blacks, high contrast, no bloom haze. Rendering character: premium experimental CGI, physically based ray-traced glass and metal, smooth high-frequency repetition, crisp curved geometry, tactile depth, subtle analog scan softness. Preserve the tension between intricate luminous structure and severe empty darkness. Avoid feathers, literal plants, wireframe meshes, smoky clouds, gemstones, cryptocurrency symbols, coins, letters, captions, watermarks, and extra objects.

Review rubric

  • Prompt Adherence
  • Material Realism
  • Negative Space
  • Geometric Coherence
  • Campaign Readiness
  • Originality

Notes

Calibration-only. MiniMax rejected the prompt because image-01 requires fewer than 1500 characters; those failures are retained. This wave is not rank-eligible.

Evidence

Recorded runs

Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-01 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-01
successGrok Imagine

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 01

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-02 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-02
successGrok Imagine

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 02

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-03 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-03
successGrok Imagine

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 03

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-01 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-01
successGrok Imagine Image 2.0

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 2 0 01

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-02 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-02
successGrok Imagine Image 2.0

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 2 0 02

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-03 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-2-0-03
successGrok Imagine Image 2.0

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine 2 0 03

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-01 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-01
successGrok Imagine Quality

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine Quality 01

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-02 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-02
successGrok Imagine Quality

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine Quality 02

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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Generated specimen oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-03 oc26-calibration-grok-imagine-quality-03
successGrok Imagine Quality

Oc26 Calibration Grok Imagine Quality 03

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
1024×1024
Seed
not exposed
Method
first party tool
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errorMiniMax Image-01

Oc26 Calibration Minimax Image 01 01 Failed Attempt 19

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
not returned
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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errorMiniMax Image-01

Oc26 Calibration Minimax Image 01 02 Failed Attempt 20

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
not returned
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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errorMiniMax Image-01

Oc26 Calibration Minimax Image 01 03 Failed Attempt 21

Calibration-only visual inspection; not rank-eligible because the full prompt exceeded MiniMax image-01's 1500-character ceiling.

Size
not returned
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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