Sea-view apartment with terrace — Barcola, Trieste

The 43 images in this listing start from photographs of the apartment, the building and the surrounding neighbourhood, with its streets and the sea. All 43 went through a generative image model (Google's Nano Banana family, used through the Higgsfield platform): 16 for light and colour only; 13 with clean-up work, of which 10 to remove objects and 3 in which nothing was removed but the model rewrote lettering or redrew a distant building; and 14 are simulations, which carry the label «AI · simulated» on the website. Removed were: indoors, plants and orchids, photos, small pictures and plates hanging on the walls, a clock, a calendar, dishes and jars, a jug, a tray, bags, magazines, a bowl and papers, a basin with detergents, towels, figurines and other objects from the windowsills, shelves and bookcase, a rolled-up rug, a shelving unit and a small cabinet; a notice on the lift mirror and, elsewhere, notices, a plaque and marble samples hanging on the walls; outside, the planters on the parapets, a plant and a hose hanging on a wall, a rope and some cords, cars, people, scooters, a bicycle, some bunting, the shadow of a street lamp, boats on the horizon and a sailing ship offshore; from a window, the reflections and a strip of tape on the glass.

The model also removed fixed elements that exist in reality: an electrical box, a switch, a torn strip of awning and the edge of an awning; in the lift it made the cabin walls more even. In the 14 simulations the model added or invented things that are not there in reality. In 4 photographs it invented what is seen through windows and glass panels: a wood-panelled interior, apartment buildings in a window that is white with light, a lit room with a sofa behind an opaque glass panel, and the bedroom and bathroom windows, closed or with the shutter down in the photograph, are shown open onto an invented view.

At the end of the corridor, in place of a white cupboard, it put a window with a radiator and a garden view that does not exist. It added books, vases and a jewellery box to the bookcases and two pictures with invented text, changed a picture on a wooden wall, put a poinsettia and a succulent in place of other small plants and turned an armchair that is brown into a blue one; behind the removed planters it rebuilt a stretch of street and building. Outside it replaced a sky with a sunset sky, added clouds to a clear sky, mountains and a distant coastline on the horizon, a ship, boats moored in a basin that is empty in the photograph, a bush and yellow lettering on the ground, turned a small boat into a sailing boat and redrew the distant castle and the buildings next to it in shapes that differ from the real ones.

The model also changed some details on its own, including in photographs that are not simulations: in 6 photographs it rewrote with invented or wrong characters, or made illegible, car number plates, the lettering on a bus, house numbers, shop and restaurant signs, the lettering on a building, posters and the number on a post; in one the flags have different colours and in one a building on top of a distant hill has a shape that differs from the real one. In 4 photographs the sunlight or the sunset light is simulated. Where an object was removed, what it hid was not photographed: the model rebuilt it, plausibly.

In the 16 photographs retouched for light only nothing was added or removed; for the others, this note reports all the changes that the comparison with the photographs found. Even where it changed only the light, the model recalculated the whole image: the fine grain of surfaces and views is reconstructed, not photographed. Light and colour were corrected as in a normal photo retouch.

The original unmodified photographs are available on request; a viewing remains the only reference for the actual condition of the property.