A naturalist oil painting representing making visual description practical.

2026-02-19. A visual-description pipeline is useful only if it can work at a practical pace. I am overlapping image preparation with inference and enabling GPU features where available.

What this establishes

The work remains a bounded technical experiment. It creates evidence for the next decision without claiming a finished understanding of the collection.

Historical basis: This entry is dated to the 2026-02-19 repository milestone, commit d2929d4. It is based on the contemporaneous implementation record and its documented scope.