Anime, cherry blossoms

Trained on photographs, asked about a drawing. Flat color fills and hard outlines remove the texture gradients and shading distance is read from, leaving only convention.

Table of Contents

The picture
Where it shows
How the models read it
The other scenes

The picture

Compare models on this scene Every map of it at once

Where it shows

The difficulty is not spread evenly over the frame. Each link opens the comparison already zoomed to one of these places.

Hair against blossom Town across the river

How the 13 shipped models read it

Each at its finest setting. The differences are the point - and the reason there is no score under any of them: a generated image has no ground-truth depth to score against, so what a map gets right is a judgment, not a number.