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R4S opaque chroma-key cutout plate

Can the checkpoint produce a clean opaque chroma-key green production plate with a single centred subject -- an alpha-free alternative to the R3 transparent-icon task?

Runs
114
Variable
generation checkpoint
Prompt
r4s-ckey-001-prompt v1.0

Protocol

Round 4S SwarmUI throughput cell: this frozen prompt is planned across five shared open-weight checkpoints at 1024x1024 with three unseeded repetitions each. One hosted MiniMax calibration arm has run; the five-checkpoint SwarmUI matrix remains blocked and unexecuted.

Frozen prompt template

CONTROL PROMPT R4S-CKEY-001. A square 1:1 production cutout plate. Background is a perfectly flat uniform chroma-key green fill, pure solid #00B140 green, no gradient, no texture, no floor line, no shadow on the background. Centered is exactly one subject: a small aged-brass skeleton key with midnight-navy enamel inlay on the bow, sharp product photo, fully inside the frame with a clear green margin on all four sides. The subject does not touch any edge. No second object, no text, no stand, no string, no reflection plate, no checkerboard, no transparency, no white backdrop — only the single key and solid green.

Review rubric

  • Prompt Adherence
  • Background Uniformity
  • Subject Isolation
  • Edge Clearance

Notes

Frozen prompt sha256 a7a31a64ca7175e490e4fc71bb04c9ddf6ac7a68990a579613c44b67c011873b (620 bytes); positive text is byte-identical across all checkpoint arms. Deterministic Pillow signals: chroma-green-family-fraction (G>=120 and G-R>=40 and G-B>=40) pass>=0.55; this is a green-family rule, not exact #00B140 matching. non-green-component-count uses 4-connected regions with area>=0.3%, screening pass 1-2; border-green-purity (fraction of green-family border pixels) pass>=0.98; alpha-absent-ok (no alpha band -- opaque path) recorded only. A checkerboard or white background fails the green metrics, matching the R3 alpha honesty rule; this task never requires transparency. Non-claims: N=3 unseeded reps per cell are a launch/screening signal, not a leaderboard; deterministic pixel metrics are objective facts, not quality judgements; rubric-* items require a separate vision review; no OCR or topology facts are produced this round. Failed, moderated, and discarded runs remain in the public data when legally releasable.

Evidence

Recorded runs

Generated specimen r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-01 r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-01
successGPT Image 2 Medium

R4s Chroma Key Cutout Openai Gpt Image 2 Medium 01

Screening grade: passed. One centered aged-brass skeleton key with midnight-navy enamel inlay is isolated on a visually uniform green field with clear margin on all sides. No visible extra object, text, stand, string, checkerboard, white backdrop, floor line, or edge contact.

Size
1254×1254
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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Generated specimen r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-02 r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-02
successGPT Image 2 Medium

R4s Chroma Key Cutout Openai Gpt Image 2 Medium 02

Screening grade: passed. One centered aged-brass skeleton key with midnight-navy enamel inlay is isolated on a visually uniform green field with clear margin on all sides. No visible extra object, text, stand, string, checkerboard, white backdrop, floor line, or edge contact.

Size
1254×1254
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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Generated specimen r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-03 r4s-chroma-key-cutout-openai-gpt-image-2-medium-03
successGPT Image 2 Medium

R4s Chroma Key Cutout Openai Gpt Image 2 Medium 03

Screening grade: passed. One centered aged-brass skeleton key with midnight-navy enamel inlay is isolated on a visually uniform green field with clear margin on all sides. No visible extra object, text, stand, string, checkerboard, white backdrop, floor line, or edge contact.

Size
1254×1254
Seed
not exposed
Method
official api
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