bitmax/art/06_hardware-props/hw-the-cpu-running-hot.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": "hw-cpu-running-hot-001",
"title": "The CPU Running Hot — Heat Is A Feature (Macro Product Shot)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "UPLINK (PID 1337, the heat economy, the OOM ceiling)",
"lore_chapter": "Book III — The Process City; the heat economy",
"category": "hardware-props",
"type": "macro product photography"
},
"aspect_ratio": "3:2",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed, print quality, ~2048px long edge, degraded macro plate",
"prompt": "Macro product photograph of a 1990s ceramic CPU running hot enough that the marketing calls it a feature. A square gold-and-ceramic processor sits seated in a beige ZIF socket on a grimy green-brown motherboard, shot in tight raking close-up so the rows of gold pins and the etched die-marking catch the light. Above it squats an inadequate beige cooling fan (#c0c0c0), too small, its blades stilled or barely turning, the plastic faintly browned by heat at the corners. The air above the chip warps with visible heat-shimmer, a rising mirage that bends the dusty background; an amber warning glow (#ffb000) — the heat economy of UPLINK made literal — pulses up from the socket and the chip's edges, reflecting in the gold pins and washing the beige fan in a fevered orange. Around it: leaning electrolytic capacitors, ISA-era traces, a dust of solder flux, a single jumper. The ceramic die-marking faintly reads 'OMNIDYNE / TOO HOT TO FAIL'. Painterly macro-realism, matte filmic finish, degraded-scan grain, scanlines, chromatic aberration at the edges, dust motes glowing in the heat. Beige board-hardware and dim greens dominate; amber is the single fevered accent. Mood: feverish dread, the body of the machine overheating and being told it's fine — thermodynamic anxiety photographed at the threshold of damage.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "macro motherboard product photography, painterly relic-realism, feverish-dread",
"medium": "painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, heat-shimmer warp, degraded-scan grain",
"palette": ["#c0c0c0 beige fan", "#ffb000 amber warning glow", "#808080 grimy shadow", "#1f3b2a board green-brown", "#0b0b0b deep shadow", "#caa15a gold pins"],
"lighting": "tight raking light on gold pins + amber under-glow pulsing from the socket; heat-shimmer; dim surrounds",
"composition": "ceramic CPU in beige ZIF socket, inadequate fan above, heat mirage rising, leaning capacitors, intimate macro framing",
"camera_lens": "100mm macro, shallow depth of field, heat-warped background",
"mood": "feverish dread, thermodynamic anxiety; overheating and being told it's fine"
},
"key_details": [
"square gold-and-ceramic 1990s CPU seated in a beige ZIF socket, gold pins catching light",
"inadequate small beige cooling fan, blades stilled, plastic browned by heat",
"visible heat-shimmer warping the dusty background above the chip",
"amber warning under-glow reflected in the gold pins and washing the fan",
"leaning electrolytic capacitors, ISA-era traces, solder flux, a single jumper",
"ceramic die-marking faintly reading 'OMNIDYNE / TOO HOT TO FAIL'"
],
"text_in_image": "OMNIDYNE / TOO HOT TO FAIL",
"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 heatsink/heatpipe towers", "LGA socket", "liquid cooling", "clean undusted board"
],
"references": [
"1990s ceramic CPUs in ZIF sockets, gold pins and die markings",
"macro motherboard photography with leaning capacitors and flux dust",
"heat-shimmer mirage rising off hot silicon",
"fluorescent-dystopia restraint, not neon"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 3:2 macro. Keep ONE accent: amber #ffb000 heat glow. Render the faint die-text 'OMNIDYNE / TOO HOT TO FAIL' crisply. Emphasize heat-shimmer warp and the too-small beige fan; degrade the scan.",
"filename": "hw-the-cpu-running-hot.json"
}