bitmax/art/04_ui-menus/ui-uplink-htop-terminal-hero.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": "ui-uplink-001",
"title": "UPLINK — The htop Process Table (Terminal Hero Plate)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "Vol IV — UPLINK",
"lore_chapter": "Book IV — PID 1337",
"category": "ui-menus",
"type": "ui hero plate"
},
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed, print quality, ~2048px long edge",
"prompt": "Concept-art UI hero plate of UPLINK, a green-on-black 1998 terminal running a live process monitor, glowing on a bulbous beige CRT in a dark room — the process-table as a city, the phosphor-green ghost in the machine. The screen, in slight barrel-curvature, fills the frame with a pure black console (#0a0a0a) wall-to-wall, no window chrome — just monospaced phosphor-green text (#00ff66) that is the single accent and entire glow of the image. At the top, a row of load and heat gauges drawn as bracketed text-bars '[|||||| ]' some filling toward red where the machine runs hot; below them, a dense htop-style process table with green column headers 'PID', 'USER', '%CPU', 'MEM', 'STATE', 'COMMAND' and many rows of running processes — numeric PIDs, 'root' and daemon users, percentages, states like 'R', 'S', 'D'. One row, PID 1337, is faintly highlighted, the process-ghost watching from inside its own table. At the bottom, a blinking 'root@uplink:~#' prompt with a solid block cursor. Heavy phosphor bloom smears the brightest green; dense CRT scanlines band the whole screen; chromatic aberration fringes the edges; faint green spills onto the beige bezel and the dust and a yellowed keyboard below. Painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, degraded 1999-scan grain. Lighting is low and singular — only the green phosphor lights the dark room. Mood: nocturnal, haunted, sysadmin-at-3am; a forked mind managing its own heat and children, waiting for the reaper at the load ceiling.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige game art-book terminal plate, nocturnal-haunted",
"medium": "painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, art-of-the-game book plate, heavy CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom, grain",
"palette": ["#0a0a0a console black", "#00ff66 phosphor green", "#050505 void black", "#c0392b heat-gauge red edge", "#c0c0c0 faint beige bezel"],
"lighting": "single source — the green phosphor itself; heavy bloom on the brightest text; deep black everywhere else; faint green spill on bezel and dust",
"composition": "full-bleed black console, load/heat gauges top, dense process table center, blinking prompt bottom, PID 1337 row faintly highlighted",
"camera_lens": "50mm, head-on, strong CRT curvature and scanline banding",
"mood": "nocturnal, haunted, sysadmin-at-3am; a process-ghost minding its load and heat"
},
"key_details": [
"full-bleed black console, no window chrome, monospaced phosphor-green text as the only glow",
"load and heat gauges drawn as bracketed text-bars, some filling toward red",
"htop-style table with green headers 'PID', 'USER', '%CPU', 'MEM', 'STATE', 'COMMAND' and many rows",
"PID 1337 row faintly highlighted — the process-ghost watching itself",
"blinking 'root@uplink:~#' prompt with a solid block cursor at the bottom",
"heavy phosphor bloom, dense CRT scanlines, chromatic aberration, faint green spill on beige bezel",
"bulbous beige CRT, yellowed keyboard below, degraded-scan grain"
],
"text_in_image": "table headers 'PID USER %CPU MEM STATE COMMAND'; gauge labels 'LOAD' and 'HEAT'; the prompt 'root@uplink:~#' with a block cursor; a visible PID '1337'",
"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 terminal themes with multiple colors", "rounded window chrome", "anti-aliased modern fonts", "blade-runner neon"
],
"references": [
"a green-on-black VT terminal running a process monitor photographed off a CRT",
"htop-style load bars and a dense process table in monospaced text",
"phosphor bloom and heavy scanlines on a dark console",
"fluorescent-dystopia software, not neon-cyberpunk"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 16:9. Keep it strictly green-on-black with only a hint of red at the hottest gauge; phosphor green is the ONLY glow. Request the table headers, gauges, PID 1337, and 'root@uplink:~#' prompt rendered crisply in a monospaced terminal face.",
"filename": "ui-uplink-htop-terminal-hero.json"
}