OCS RESEARCH / HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION STANDARD
Research before reconstruction.
Office Curve Studio consults public records, primary and near-primary sources, museum collections and official archives before reconstructing a period visually. AI is one production tool; it is not a substitute for historical research.
RESEARCH LOCKED
Sources and constraints govern both public claims and generated images.
“Research Locked” does not mean a perfect reproduction or a genuine historical photograph. It means that major claims concerning year, place, role, clothing, space and tools have been checked, while uncertain detail is not presented as fact.
FOUR CLAIM LAYERS
History and fiction are kept separate.
Years, institutions, objects, customs and events supported by sources.
A reasonable conclusion from several sources, without direct proof for one exact scene.
A visualized space, pose, arrangement or color built from historical evidence.
Fictional people, private dialogue and detail of a particular imagined day.
ARCHIVE STATUS
Not every OCS work claims the same research depth.
RESEARCH LOCKED records have major claims and generation constraints managed through sources, a Research Queue and Source Registry. RESEARCH-INFORMED records use references but have not completed backfill to the current standard. LEGACY / STORY-FIRST works predate the current lock. They remain in the archive with their provenance stated rather than disappearing.
PRODUCTION PIPELINE
Evidence → Lock → Image.
- YEAR / PLACE LOCK — define the historical scope.
- RESEARCH — gather evidence from public and institutional sources.
- SOURCE REGISTRY — connect each major claim to a source.
- CLAIM CLASSIFICATION — separate fact, inference, reconstruction and fiction.
- GENERATION RULES — define what must appear, must not appear and should remain generic.
- PUBLIC SOURCE NOTE — disclose the reconstruction and references.
What OCS does not claim.
OCS does not normally claim “exact reproduction,” “precisely as it was” or that an invented image records an actual moment. A face, private gesture, precise room arrangement or color may remain unknown. Later paintings and reconstructed displays are not treated as direct evidence for an earlier period without accounting for the difference in date and purpose.
As close to the evidence as possible.
OCS narrows what can be known, leaves uncertainty visible and reconstructs the past as lived human time—not as a claim that an invented image is a genuine period photograph.