Image Round-Trip

The image round-trip is the path a picture takes through Rook: out of Rhino as a captured view, through any image model, and back into the document as a first-class artifact — shared by reference, not re-derived each time.

The four stops

1. Capture — a PNG grabbed in memory from a chosen view (e.g. North elevation, Raytraced, at a set resolution).
2. Enhance — your short instruction is expanded with scene context.

   You: “watercolour, dawn light, faint mist”

   Enhanced: “North elevation, watercolour wash, dawn light, faint coastal mist, 1:200…”

3. Generate — run across image models (Nano Banana, Flux 2 Pro, GPT-Image-2), typically several seeded variants at once.
4. Return — approve the ones you like; they land back in the document as a PictureFrame on a construction plane, tracked as artifacts.

Why artifacts matter

Each result is a durable artifact with an id. You share it by reference rather than regenerating it — so a good image stays put and can be reused downstream.

Try it — paste to your agent

Capture my current view, turn it into a watercolour at dawn across a couple of
image models, and bring the one I pick back into the document.

Related

• RookVision — the capability this belongs to
• Many Providers — the image models available