Experiment 01 — Cat Grid

Prompts

Jon → Hermes (spoken input)

"Clear this canvas, make a 3×3 grid with labels of nine images. The image is always the same — a 10 gallon fish tank from the 90s with gravel, half filled with water. There's a cat inside. Image 1 = 1 cat, image 2 = 2 cats, all the way to 9 cats. Same angle, same tank, only the number of cats changes. Photorealistic."

Hermes → ComfyUI (KREA2 turbo text-to-image prompt)

A normal-sized adult tabby cat(s) inside a 10 gallon rectangular glass fish tank from the 1990s, half filled with water, colorful gravel at the bottom, plastic aquarium plants and a sunken castle decoration. Shot on Kodak Gold 400 film, photorealistic, detailed fur texture, real photograph, not digital art. Straight-on from the front, eye-level with the tank, 35mm lens. [N cats depending on image] Seed: 866506072959373 (locked across all 9) Steps: 8 · CFG: 1 · Sampler: euler · Model: KREA2 turbo fp8

Results — 3×3 Grid (1–9 Cats)

What Happened

First attempt went sideways. Before the cats, the agent had been experimenting with Islamic star tessellations — a 6×6 grid of 8-pointed stars. When Jon said "make a grid of nine images," the agent initially tried reusing that tessellation structure. Wrong context. Jon clarified: he wanted nine generated photographs, not geometric patterns.

Version 1 generated 9 cat images but the colors were off — the cats looked too large, the tank styling wasn't consistent with the 90s brief. Version 2 rewrote the prompts to enforce photorealism: "Kodak Gold 400 film, detailed fur texture, real photograph, not digital art", locked the seed at 866506072959373, and specified "normal-sized adult tabby cat" to prevent kitten-sized outputs. Each image only changed the cat count in the prompt — everything else stayed identical.

Images were placed one-by-one so Jon could watch the grid fill in real time — roughly 5 seconds per image, 49 seconds total for all 9. The grid was arranged in a 3×3 layout on canvas01 with text labels under each cell.

The honest limitation: KREA2 turbo at 8 steps generates fast but can't maintain spatial consistency across independent generations. The tank, background, and decorations vary between cells — each is a fresh generation from the same prompt, not an edit of a base image. True background consistency would require img2img, ControlNet, or inpainting approaches.