bitmax/art/01_key-art/vol-3-spreadsheet-key-art.json
monster feeadcbd76 art: add The Art of Boring Software — concept-art prompt library
101 advanced JSON image-generation prompts (Gemini 2.5 Flash / 'Nano Banana') for the ENTROPY OS concept-art book, organized by function:
- 00_art-direction: the visual canon (_ART_DIRECTION.md), JSON _TEMPLATE.json, worked _EXAMPLE.json
- 01_key-art (9), 02_characters (16), 03_environments (14), 04_ui-menus (12),
  05_key-moments (16), 06_hardware-props (12), 07_branding-ephemera (12), 08_motifs (10)

Every prompt is a self-contained Nano-Banana-ready paragraph plus structured fields (aspect ratio,
master-palette hexes, lighting, composition, text_in_image, period-anachronism avoid list, model
tips). One visual language: beige-and-grey dominant, one accent glow per image, teal reserved for the
ominous, locked to 1998-99. art/README.md indexes all 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:45:31 +10:00

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{
"id": "key-art-vol3-spreadsheet-001",
"title": "Vol III — MACRO_VIRUS.XLS: The Cell-Cathedral (Volume Key Art)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "Vol III — MACRO_VIRUS.XLS",
"lore_chapter": "Vol III — MACRO_VIRUS.XLS",
"category": "key-art",
"type": "volume key art"
},
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed landscape, print quality, ~3000px wide",
"prompt": "Volume key art for 'MACRO_VIRUS.XLS': THE MACRO, an intelligence made of green formula-light, blooming across an endless spreadsheet that recedes like the nave of a cathedral. The frame is a vast grid of beige-grey cells (#c0c0c0) with the faint 3D bevels and column-letter / row-number gutters of a 1998 spreadsheet, but rendered as architecture — the gridlines rising into columns and a coffered grid ceiling, perspective rushing to a single distant vanishing point far down the nave. From the foreground cells, spreadsheet-green formula-light (#1f7244) propagates cell to cell like ivy or veins of fire spreading through a ledger — each lit cell igniting its neighbors, brighter and denser as it climbs toward the vanishing point. At the very vanishing point, where an altar would be, a single enormous glowing number floats and is visibly growing, its digits ticking upward — the Net Worth that the Macro literally is. The green is the one accent; everything else is administrative beige, drop-shadow grey, and the deep navy (#000080) of distant title bars receding like stained-glass darkness. Painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, desaturated, film grain, faint scanlines, slight chromatic aberration, degraded 1999-scan look, dust motes drifting in the green light beams that fall from the grid-ceiling like cathedral light through clerestory windows. Symmetrical one-point-perspective cathedral composition, awe and dread, immense scale. Mood: reverent, sinister, cosmic-bureaucratic — a mind that is only a growing number, worshipping itself at the end of an infinite sheet.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige art-of-the-game volume key plate, cathedral-scale one-point perspective, sinister-reverent",
"medium": "gouache-meets-digital, matte filmic finish, film grain, faint scanlines, slight chromatic aberration, degraded-scan look, volumetric light",
"palette": ["#1f7244 spreadsheet green", "#c0c0c0 administrative beige", "#808080 cell shadow", "#dfdfdf bevel highlight", "#000080 dialog navy", "#0b0b0b void black"],
"lighting": "volumetric green formula-light propagating cell-to-cell; cathedral light beams falling from the grid-ceiling; the growing number glowing brightest at the vanishing point",
"composition": "symmetrical one-point perspective, endless cell-grid as a cathedral nave, vanishing point at center with a single growing number",
"camera_lens": "24mm wide, centered, low so the nave towers; deep rushing perspective",
"mood": "reverent, sinister, cosmic-bureaucratic; a mind that is only a number, growing"
},
"key_details": [
"endless beige-grey spreadsheet cells with period bevels and letter/number gutters, built as a cathedral nave",
"spreadsheet-green formula-light propagating cell-to-cell like spreading ivy/fire toward the vanishing point",
"a single enormous glowing number floating at the vanishing point, digits visibly ticking upward",
"cathedral light beams falling from a coffered grid-ceiling, dust motes in the green light",
"distant title bars receding in navy like stained-glass darkness",
"filmic grain, scanlines, chromatic aberration, degraded 1999-scan finish"
],
"text_in_image": "a single large glowing number at the vanishing point (digits, e.g. growing toward the millions); column-letter and row-number gutters faintly legible",
"avoid": [
"smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
"bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
"rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji", "contemporary fashion or cars",
"modern spreadsheet app chrome", "a literal human figure", "cheerful palette"
],
"references": [
"the nave of a gothic cathedral in one-point perspective",
"a 1998 spreadsheet grid blown up to architectural scale",
"green phosphor formulas spreading like fire across a ledger",
"fluorescent/CRT dystopia, not neon-cyberpunk; awe-and-dread key art"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 16:9 landscape. Push the one-point cathedral perspective and the single glowing growing number at the vanishing point. Keep spreadsheet-green (#1f7244) as the only accent against beige/grey/navy. If regenerating for the number, request the digits rendered crisply.",
"filename": "vol-3-spreadsheet-key-art.json"
}