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Scene prompt — Course I: Docker image layers (S0 SPIKE)

v2 (2026-07-27) — tuned from the first two candidates: keep shot 2's generous gaps, kill the fake-code glyphs on the magenta layer (shot 1's abstract treatment wins). Generate ~4 at 16:9, curate with the reject checklist, save to disk for pickup.


Dark technical exploded-view illustration in a cinematic sci-fi engineering style. Solid near-black deep void background, hex #070b14 — completely clean: no stars, no grid, no texture, no particles behind or around the objects. Matte dark metal-and-glass surfaces with glowing neon edge lighting: primary cyan #3fbaf5, secondary magenta #e879f9 accents, cool white rim highlights. Camera: fixed 30-degree isometric angle, subject perfectly centered with generous empty margins on all sides. Even studio lighting, no vignette, no lens flare, no depth-of-field blur. ABSOLUTELY NO text, no letters, no numbers, no words, no code, no glyphs, no labels, no arrows, no callout lines, no UI elements anywhere in the image — every surface marking must be an abstract geometric pattern only. Every component is fully separated from its neighbours by generous gaps of pure void — nothing touching, nothing overlapping, and no beams, cables, or connectors spanning between the separated parts.

The subject: an exploded vertical stack of four flat square slabs floating in the void, widely spaced along a vertical axis with large empty gaps of void between each one — the layers of a container image, seen mid-explosion. Push the slabs far apart so each floats clearly on its own with dark void visible between them.

Bottom slab: the thickest and heaviest, a solid foundational block of dark brushed metal with a bright cyan glowing seam running around its edge. Second slab up: thinner, dark, its top face covered in an intricate circuit-board trace pattern glowing soft cyan — fine geometric pathways and nodes. Third slab: thin and precise, dark, its top face decorated with sparse abstract glowing magenta line-work — elegant angular geometric strokes and flowing traces, purely decorative shapes with no resemblance to writing, text, or code. Top slab: the thinnest, semi-transparent frosted glass with a soft white-magenta ghost glow — barely-there and ephemeral.

All four slabs share the same square footprint and sit in perfect vertical alignment, reading as one machine pulled apart for inspection.


Build-side notes (not part of the prompt)

  • Slice plan: 4 polygons (one per slab). Scrub: collapsed stack → outward to the hero's exploded spacing. DOM legend: base OS → dependencies → app code → writable layer.
  • Motion constraint (locked 2026-07-27): slabs occlude each other in 2D, so each lower slice has a hidden "bite". Animating collapsed→hero only ever INCREASES occlusion, so bites stay hidden. Never over-explode past the source layout and never fan sideways — that exposes the tears.
  • Watermark: Gemini sparkle bottom-right — strip with bztmon-site/scripts/dewatermark.mjs before slicing.