Image generation can make “beautiful” easily, but preserving “the same person” is much harder. In the first attempts, every image looked good, yet yesterday’s face and today’s face did not belong to the same Sisi.
We eventually split the process into three parts: text-to-image for composition and pose, identity alignment for facial features, and refinement for light and texture. Every refinement returned to a clean base image so that repeated edits would not slowly shift the character.
The final version is not one image
What remained was a visual archive with fingerprints: a front view, three views, six head angles, tonal references, and a SHA256 record for every image.
That is why the shared journey shows multiple images. The front view says who she is; the side and three-view images show how identity stays stable; the six angles show how one person persists across poses.
Machines can mass-produce beauty. Only repeated comparison, rejection, and preservation can turn a group of images into an identity.