DIFFERENCE ENGINE / TEST K + CONTINUATION / COMPLETED

RAINBOW ESCAPE

A rainbow-spiral starting image. One hundred transformations, then one hundred more. Follow the complete lineage from generation 0000 to 0200.

IMAGE RUN

Two recorded branches. One continuing lineage.

Test K generated images 0001–0100 on August 26, 2026. Its endpoint became the starting image for 100 additional generations, 0101–0200, on August 27. Both branches used the same neutral prompt, model alias, medium quality and 1920 × 1440 canvas.

Generation 0100 is shown once at the junction. The continuation began from a PNG with identical decoded pixels and a different file hash. It did not return to the original seed.

Start at the source ↗ · View the continuation starting point ↗ · View the final generation ↗

Source image / 0000

200 generations + the starting image

Rainbow Escape, source image, generation 0000 — RAINBOW ESCAPE / SOURCE IMAGE / GENERATION 0000

Generation 0000 / 0200

Open image ↗

Starting image · The iterative prompt begins with generation 0001.

Prompt & image model

OpenAI · gpt-image-2

The same instruction was used for generations 0001–0200. Each request received only the immediately preceding image as its visual input.

Read the exact prompt

Use the supplied image as the only visual reference and create one new image from it.

Do not simply reproduce or closely copy the image. Let it change in whatever way seems appropriate, a little or a lot.

You may keep, change, remove, rearrange, or introduce visual elements as you see fit. Do not make changes merely to make the result stranger, darker, prettier, more dramatic, more realistic, or more surreal.

Do not aim toward any particular style, mood, subject, story, or destination.

Treat the supplied image as the complete current image. Do not try to reconstruct an earlier version, recover an original, or infer what came before it.

Base your decisions only on the supplied image and these instructions. Do not use or imagine previous generations.

Make one image. Do not explain your choices or provide alternatives.

The result should be meaningfully different from the supplied image, but how different is entirely up to you.

Model names and settings come from the original records. A dated model snapshot was not recorded. The seed deliberately introduced multiple colours and branching structure to a spiral image. This sequence documents what followed; it does not by itself isolate the effects of colour or prove an escape from a recurring visual form.

Run history & completion verification

Test K produced generations 0001–0100 on August 26, 2026. Its endpoint became the continuation seed, and generations 0101–0200 were produced on August 27. The two saved generation-0100 PNGs have different file hashes but identical decoded pixels; this gallery shows that boundary image once. On September 19, the continuation completion flag was corrected after verifying every image and all 100 parent/output records. Its original state is preserved; no images or generation timestamps were changed.

The September 19 audit also verified the first branch's 100 parent/output records. Download the verification summary.