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Adds mirror-registry as a featured project (order 26, beside The Exploded Cluster) covering the zot deployment, the bootstrap and auth circular dependencies, and the retention/revalidation behaviours that corrected the first published write-up. Adds the cover: field to exploded-cluster (it had none, so the card rendered imageless) and stages public/covers/image.md with the generation prompts and processing steps for both covers.
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# Project cover prompts - bztmon.com
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Two covers to generate: **The Exploded Cluster** and **The Mirror (pull-through registry)**.
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Paste the block below the `---` for each one into Gemini / Nano Banana 2, generate ~4
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variations, curate against the reject list, then process per "After generating".
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Aspect: **3:2 landscape** (existing covers are 1600 x 1074).
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---
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## House style block (already inside each prompt - do not paste separately)
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The site's covers are dark isometric hero renders: matte dark hardware, cyan and magenta
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edge light, a subtly circuit-etched ground plane, thin atmospheric haze, one small four-point
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sparkle highlight, and generous empty space on one side so the card's title text has room.
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Unlike the learn-site scene plates, covers MAY have a ground plane and atmosphere - they are
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never sliced or animated.
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## Reject checklist (per candidate, before you keep it)
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- [ ] any text, letters, numbers, logos or UI chrome anywhere in the frame (reject hard)
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- [ ] subject clipped by the frame edge, or centred so tightly there is no negative space
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- [ ] colours drifting warm - the palette is cyan/magenta on near-black, no orange or gold
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- [ ] photographic realism or stock-render gloss (it should read as an illustration)
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- [ ] busy background competing with the subject
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- [ ] the two covers looking like the same object (they must be distinguishable as a pair)
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## After generating
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1. Keep the best of each, name them `exploded-cluster.png` / `mirror-registry.png`.
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2. Convert and place (from the repo root, on the box with the site checkout):
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```
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# full-size cover: 1600px wide
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ffmpeg -y -i exploded-cluster.png -vf "scale=1600:-2" -q:v 80 public/covers/exploded-cluster.webp
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ffmpeg -y -i mirror-registry.png -vf "scale=1600:-2" -q:v 80 public/covers/mirror-registry.webp
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# card thumbnail: 640px wide
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ffmpeg -y -i exploded-cluster.png -vf "scale=640:-2" -q:v 80 public/covers/thumb/exploded-cluster.webp
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ffmpeg -y -i mirror-registry.png -vf "scale=640:-2" -q:v 80 public/covers/thumb/mirror-registry.webp
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```
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3. Both project files already reference these names (`cover: "exploded-cluster"`,
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`cover: "mirror-registry"`), so the cards pick them up on the next build.
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---
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# PROMPT 1 - The Exploded Cluster
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Dark isometric technical illustration in a cinematic sci-fi engineering style, 3:2 landscape.
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Near-black background, hex #070b14, with a faint dark circuit-etched ground plane beneath the
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subject and a thin drift of atmospheric haze in the upper right. Matte dark metal and smoked
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glass surfaces with glowing neon edge lighting: primary cyan #3fbaf5, secondary magenta
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#e879f9, cool white rim highlights. Even studio lighting, no lens flare, no depth-of-field
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blur. ABSOLUTELY NO text, letters, numbers, logos, labels, arrows or UI elements anywhere in
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the image - surface markings must be abstract geometric patterns only.
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The subject: a single machine caught mid-explosion, its layers separated vertically like an
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engineering teardown diagram, floating apart with clear gaps of void between them. From the
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bottom up: a heavy dark chassis base with cyan-lit vents; above it a thick slab housing rows
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of small identical cells; above that two thin translucent glass sheets etched with fine
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circuit tracery, glowing faintly cyan; and at the top, held well clear of everything else, a
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small bright magenta-lit cube - the smallest and most luminous part, clearly the payload the
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whole machine exists to carry.
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The parts hover in stable formation rather than flying apart violently - a considered
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teardown, paused for inspection. Composition sits left of centre, leaving open dark space on
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the right third of the frame. One small four-point white sparkle highlight in the lower right,
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far from the subject.
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---
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# PROMPT 2 - The Mirror (pull-through registry)
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Dark isometric technical illustration in a cinematic sci-fi engineering style, 3:2 landscape.
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Near-black background, hex #070b14, with a faint dark circuit-etched ground plane beneath the
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subject and a thin drift of atmospheric haze in the upper left. Matte dark metal and smoked
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glass surfaces with glowing neon edge lighting: primary cyan #3fbaf5, secondary magenta
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#e879f9, cool white rim highlights. Even studio lighting, no lens flare, no depth-of-field
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blur. ABSOLUTELY NO text, letters, numbers, logos, labels, arrows or UI elements anywhere in
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the image - surface markings must be abstract geometric patterns only.
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The subject: a wide, low, heavily-armoured way-station machine sitting on the ground plane,
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right of centre - a bunker-grade cache with a glass-fronted shelf running along its face,
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holding a row of small identical luminous cyan bricks in cold storage. Its face has a single
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broad output aperture ringed in cool white light, aimed left.
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Above and behind it, arranged in a loose arc receding into the haze, five small dark intake
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pods at clearly diminishing scale - each a compact rounded capsule with one cyan-lit aperture,
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each floating alone with generous void between them, none touching the main machine. They
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read as five distant sources feeding one local shelf.
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Below and left of the way-station, close to the ground plane, a single luminous cyan brick
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hovers in mid-transfer - small, bright, clearly in motion toward the viewer's side of the
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frame, the one thing the whole arrangement is delivering.
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Composition sits right of centre, leaving open dark space on the left third for title text.
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One small four-point white sparkle highlight in the upper right, far from the subject.
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