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EraWeaver

Restoration pilot · local preview

Turn archival images into carefully contextualized scenes while keeping provenance, uncertainty, and reconstructed detail visible to the reviewer.

Scene library

Browse the cited scenes available in the EraWeaver catalog. Filters and sorting run locally in this browser.

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Offline download is explicit and optional; it caches the curated scene set for this browser.

Bring an archival scene to life

Choose an image and generate a new, inferred scene from its structure, sky cues, and optional Qurmmius Palimpsest context. The prototype never uploads the file and never presents generated detail as recovered history.

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Restoration preview

Select an archival image to begin.

Load an image to generate simulated conditions.

Engine: EraWeaver SkyTone v2 · deterministic, data-driven local reconstruction. It estimates a physically plausible sky and atmosphere from observation time, approximate location, weather scenario, and image cues; the combined scene pass uses Qurmmius Palimpsest relief as bounded depth/lighting input to synthesize a new image while preserving the original beside it.

Synthetic World's Fair sample: a 1893 Chicago World's Fair-inspired scene is included for a quick demo. It is generated artwork, not an archival photograph or historical evidence.

LOC 1893 restoration candidate: an AI-assisted sky edit of a Library of Congress panoramic photograph whose catalog notes “sky painted out on negative.” It is a review candidate, not recovered evidence; the original and a same-era LOC sky reference remain cited in its provenance.

Evidence scene MVP: Enter the 1893 WCE Administration Building scene to inspect five cited viewpoints, hotspots, the approximate Qurmmius Palimpsest anchor, and the reviewed 3DGS handoff contract.

Authenticity guardrail: a fully clipped white sky has no exact detail to recover. Reconstruction is an interpretation and should be reviewed alongside the untouched original.
Simulation disclosure: EraWeaver reads upper-sky image cues and multiplies them into ten plausible date/time/weather variants. These are inferred alternatives for exploration, not recovered historical facts.
Optional local renderer: the realistic-render button connects only to a loopback worker at 127.0.0.1:8787. It requires separately installed SDXL weights, may need a GPU, and is never used automatically or sent to a cloud provider.

Provenance first

Keep source, date, license, and curator notes attached to every restoration preview.

Uncertainty visible

Mark inferred areas so a researcher can distinguish archival evidence from generated context.

Qurmmius Palimpsest ready

Pair a restored image with a cited spatial layer only after map alignment and cultural review.