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Your AI Character Looks Right—Except Every Asymmetric Detail Flipped

This article comes from the author's work maintaining Tsuduri, a recurring AI-illustrated character with asymmetric design features.

  • Tsuduri AI character has asymmetric details that flip based on pose.
  • Workflow uses invariant to keep hair ornament on character's left side.
  • Single reference view ensures correct character state regardless of pose.

The Dedicated OCR Engine Lost to the General-Purpose Model — 300 Slower

Originally published on hexisteme notes . I had a 27B vision model running locally (IQ4_XS quantized, 15GB resident) and needed to decide whether it was worth using for OCR.

  • Dedicated OCR engine processed image in 82.8 seconds
  • General-purpose model completed task in 0.27 seconds
  • General-purpose model maintained document structure better

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