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The novelty presented in this work consists in producing generated content in both Cartesian and polar coordinate representations, typically used in iris recognition pipelines, such as the foundational work proposed by John Daugman, but hitherto not used in generative AI experiments. The main objective of this study was to conduct a qualitative analysis of the synthetic samples and evaluate the iris texture density and suitability for meaningful feature extraction. During this study, a total of 1327 unique irises were generated, and experimental results carried out using the well-known OSIRIS open-source iris recognition software and the equivalent software, wordlcoin-openiris, newly published at the end of 2023 to prove that (1) no \u201cidentity leak\u201d from the training set was observed, and (2) the generated irises had enough unique textural information to be successfully differentiated between both themselves and between them and real, authentic iris samples. The results of our research demonstrate the promising potential of synthetic iris data generation as a valuable tool for augmenting training datasets and improving the overall performance of iris recognition systems. By exploring the synthetic data in both Cartesian and polar representations, we aim to understand the benefits and limitations of each approach and their implications for biometric applications. 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