APEX · CHESHIRE r1
SQUINT × LINEFINDER — two engines, one referee · BARNCAT reads the big print, ALLEY CAT goes after the rest, the CHESHIRE sends back what only grinned like print · the MOUSER brings back the small round things · LINEFINDER cuts a detail pass, one tap below the pick
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MOUSER · SMALL ROUND THINGS
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APEX runs both house engines on every image and lets a referee — not you — pick the output.
SQUINT contributes its guaranteed-coverage KD rectangle partition (the edge master: solidly
bounded, no gaps, ever). LINEFINDER contributes full label-map segmentation (the artist:
traced organic regions, median colors). MASCARA is promoted to a shared pass: its features
are lifted out of BOTH engines' inputs and redrawn on top as crisp primitives. Five candidate
compositions — each solo engine, each with MASCARA, and the APEX STACK (SQUINT base coat
under LINEFINDER detail work) — are rasterized and graded against one source-snapshot truth:
40% per-pixel color · 22% block structure · 25% edge fidelity · 13% salient features.
Sweeps use the knee rule (simplest result within 1.2 pts of best). Highest total wins,
smaller file breaks ties. Single input, no sliders — the tool grades itself.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get
to,” said the Cat. “I don't much care where—” said Alice. “Then it doesn't matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
is . A letter has strokes in
at least two directions (an M is two uprights and a V; even a y is two diagonals) — a stripe of hatching has one. A
wide letter is an airy one — nothing is both one and a half times wider than it is tall and two thirds ink, which is
exactly what a hatched block reads as once JPEG has smeared it into a gray plate with a notch in it: two M's, side by
side, sixty-six pixels tall. And one shape is never three quarters of a real word. Any one tell is enough; a vetoed
word is not a read — nothing is lifted, and its box shows dashed in the cat panel with the tell on it. Measured
against a dense technical drawing at five encodings and sizes: the pair of M's goes, every real word stays, and the
parens let a few more words through than before.