Which look for the fourteen Places?
One garage, drawn three ways. Whichever you pick, the other thirteen Places are drawn to match it, and so is every object after that. This is the decision that stops drawing number forty looking unrelated to drawing number one.
Made on 5 September with OpenAI's newest picture generator, which is what you chose.
1The three takes
Look at these first, before the numbers underneath them.
Solid areas of colour, no line drawn around it, one soft shadow underneath. The closest of the three to the objects already in your app.
Shading measure: 1,202. Your app's own flat objects score 19.
Stronger, simpler shapes with the speckle of screen-printed paper laid over them. This is one of the two you picked from four character styles on 3 September.
Shading measure: 69,174. Your app's own flat objects score 19.
Flat colour filled in slightly loosely, with a soft pencil line wobbling around the shapes. The warmest and the least machine-made of the three.
Shading measure: 44,303. Your app's own flat objects score 19.
2The same three, at the size they actually appear
A Place is a big tile on your Home screen, and it sits on the same page as the small objects your app already draws. Those small ones are genuinely flat. The question this row asks is whether a slightly shaded drawing sits happily beside them, or reads as a sticker stuck on top.
And these are the objects already in your app, drawn flat, at the size they really are:
What the number means, in plain words. It counts how many separate shades a drawing uses. Your own objects use about nineteen, because they are built from solid blocks of colour. Take 1 uses over a thousand: it looks flat, but it has soft shading in the roof, the door and the shadow that a truly flat drawing does not have. That is not automatically wrong. It is the thing your own design rules warn about, so it is your call rather than mine.
What this sheet is not. It is not the finished artwork and none of these ships. It is not asking about the colour, the door handle or the bushes, all of which follow the look rather than lead it. And it is not asking about your three characters: those were settled on 4 September and are not being reopened.
What happens after you pick. The chosen look is written
into assets/ASSET_INDEX.md as the one style everything is held to, then the
garage is redrawn in pieces (door separate, inside behind it) and the other thirteen Places
follow. Sheet built by scripts/build-place-style-question.py.