I spent the entire second day chasing perfection. I tried a second-pass refinement. I tried upscaling before de-mosaicing. I merged two different AI outputs using a mask. Each pass took two hours. Each result offered a 5% improvement at best.
By 4:00 PM, I finally saw it: the first progress bar. The software was “inpainting” the first five seconds. The result was crude—faces looked like melted wax figures—but the mosaic was technically less dense. I was hooked. -Reducing Mosaic-DLDSS-149 For 2 Days While My ...
The mosaic is there for a reason. Reducing it doesn’t reveal the truth; it just shows you what an algorithm thinks is there. Sometimes, the blur is the kindest filter of all. I spent the entire second day chasing perfection