Brass City Example

“A living clockwork city carved into a spiral nautilus-shell cliff, teeming with miniature terraces and skybridges, observatories rotating on jeweled bearings, citizens the size of grains of rice moving along micromechanical stairways — composed as an isometric cutaway showing interior chambers and exterior streets.

Surfaces & materials: gilded brass filigree, hand-etched obsidian, nacre inlays, blued-steel gears with guilloché patterns, stained-glass micro-mosaics.

Fine detail: fiber-thin copper conduits, hummingbird-scale turbines, minute astrolabes, etched star charts, bioluminescent algae canals, pollen-grain lanterns.

Lighting & atmosphere: three-point lighting with rim highlights, volumetric god-rays through stained glass, soft particulate haze, water-caustics dancing across shell chambers, subsurface scattering in nacre.

Color & mood: deep teal, ultramarine, antique gold, amethyst, opal highlights, mood awe-struck, sacred-mechanical.

Style anchors: Art Nouveau + astronomical illustration + haute horology exploded diagrams.

Optical effects: macro focus stacking, tilt-shift depth of field, micro-bokeh, gentle chromatic aberration at edges.

Output controls: ultra-high detail, hyper-ornate, thousands of tiny parts.

(If supported) Negative prompt: low detail, blur, text, watermark, extra limbs, deformed hands, oversharpen.”

IN THIS LESSON

Case study of a Haikuverse masterwork.

Masterwork Prompt Checklist

[✓] Frame It — format + anchor styles (Van Gogh impasto, slap-stick cartoon, Moebius sci-fi).

[✓] Layer It — Foreground, Midground, Background.

[✓] Texture It — Rich materials (gilded brass, nacre inlays, cracked marble, velvet shadows).

[✓] Light It — Atmosphere first (god-rays, haze, reflected heat).

[✓] Color It — 5–6 tones (cobalt, sunflower yellow, lavender, opal).

[✓] Lens It — Optical drama (macro DOF, tilt-shift, bokeh, chromatic edges).

[✓] Polish It — Output cues (ultra-high detail, hyper-ornate, cinematic).

[✓] Break It — The absurd flourish (kraken sipping tea, dentures flying, sun on strings).

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