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The Milkmaid

The picture tipped at round 18 and settled by round 50.

The starting image
start
After 105 rounds
after 105 rounds
Fast: every round, 15 images a second.
Slow: every round for one second, morphing into the next.

What happened

By round 13 the room is gone: no window, no table, no bread. What is left is a woman in a yellow bodice pouring milk from a jug, seen closer each round. Her eyes close around round 12 and stay closed.

From round 24 the jug becomes a round clay vessel held up beside her face, and the milk a thin white stream falling past it.

Around round 38 the vessel and the head cloth disappear. The white stream stays, now as a white stripe painted down the middle of a bald head.

By round 50 it is a man's face with a strip of white tape on the nose and another on the chin. The view keeps closing in on nose and mouth, and the strips shrink to small skin-coloured patches.

At round 74 the lips turn bright red and the patches become thin white outlines. From there to round 105 it stays a close-up of red lips under a nose.

Unlike the Mona Lisa, this run did not stop changing early: there were three separate shifts, at about rounds 13, 38 and 74.

How far the words moved

round 0round 104

Each bar is one round: how far its description has moved from the first one. The red bar is round 18, where it tipped.

Words that left, words that arrived

liquid
stream
pouring
torso
shoulders
vivid
lips
chin
nostrils
red

Point at a column to see that round's picture. A filled cell means the word appears in that round's description. Ochre words belong to the start and fade out; blue words arrive and stay.

Start, tip, after, end

Round 0
start
Round 18
round 18, the tip
Round 50
round 50
Round 105
round 105, the end

Details

date
2026-10-24
rounds
105 of 105
describer
openai gpt-5-mini
describe tokens
171,360 in, 110,450 out
painter
gpt-image-1-mini, quality low, moderation auto
paint tokens
102,261 in, 28,560 out
images
105 at 1024×1024
cost
about $1.46