[P] Awesome Jewelry AI: curated resources for AI-generated jewelry imagery (papers, datasets, open-source models, tools)

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Jewelry is one of the, if not the, hardest categories for AI image generation. Reflective metals, facet edges, prong geometry, and gemstone refraction all get destroyed by standard VAE compression in latent diffusion models. No benchmark exists to measure this systematically. I put together a curated Awesome List covering the full landscape: Foundational papers on identity preservation, VAE detail loss, and reflective surface rendering Open-source models: ControlNet configs, IP-Adapter varian...