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Salvage
An engine-agnostic style recipe: a wide hero, proof shots across subjects, and a portable prompt.
1 hero · 3 proofs
Prompt template
{subject}, in the style of a recovered fragment from a damaged optical disc — a forensic archive scan: the subject reconstructed from coarse halftone radial sector dots and fine horizontal scan-line interlacing, partially corrupted with thin sliced black data-loss scars cutting across asymmetrically and a few rectangular blocks dropped to pure white as missing sectors, faint concentric optical-sector arcs and radial tick marks ghosting behind the forms, {palette}, a single archival muted blue (#2F78A5) recovery tint washing across the most-intact regions while the rest stays black-ink on a cool frosted milk-white ground, crisp registration discipline, matte and restrained with no glow, {composition}, the subject filling the frame edge to edge. Absolutely NO text, NO letters, NO words, NO numbers, NO logos.Slot recipes
hero — The subject filling the full bleed edge to edge, dense and immersive, halftone sector dots and scan-line interlacing across it, sliced black data-loss scars and a few dropped white sector blocks raking through the strongest forms, concentric optical-sector arcs ghosting behind, archival blue recovery tint on the most-intact regions.
feature — The subject large and centered, filling the frame, reconstructed from halftone sector dots with the archival-blue recovery tint reading as the highlight, a couple of sliced black scars and one or two dropped white sectors for material corruption.
avatar — A tight three-quarter portrait of the subject, face filling the frame, fine scan-line interlacing and halftone dots, thin sliced black scars across the features, a restrained archival-blue recovery tint on the intact half.
empty-state — The subject rendered quietly but still filling the frame, lighter halftone, only one or two faint sliced scars and a single dropped white sector, a barely-there archival-blue recovery tint — recovered but stabilized and calm.
illustration — A close study of the subject filling the frame, crisp halftone sector dots and scan-line interlacing, asymmetric sliced black scars and dropped white sectors, concentric sector arcs and radial ticks ghosting behind, one archival-blue recovery layer.
optical-disc-recoveryhalftone-sectorsscan-line-interlacedata-loss-scarsarchival-blue-tint
Credits · in the lineage of
- Forensic archive scan aestheticsTraditiondamaged-media recovery imagery
A generated style is an aggregate of many influences — credit is given to the artists and traditions it draws on, not a claim of authorship.
produced by unrecorded · sourced by unrecorded · images by unrecorded
Do
- · Apply the treatment to any subject, filling the frame edge to edge.
- · Build the subject from coarse halftone radial sector dots and fine horizontal scan-line interlacing, like a stabilized contact-sheet thumbnail.
- · Make corruption material and asymmetric: thin sliced black data-loss scars and a few rectangular blocks dropped to pure white as missing sectors.
- · Wash one archival muted blue recovery tint across only the most-intact regions; keep the rest black-ink on cool frosted milk-white.
- · Ghost faint concentric optical-sector arcs and radial tick marks behind the forms, cropped by the frame.
Don't
- · Render the apparatus (disc, drive, scanner, screen, page, or frame).
- · Add any text, letters, words, or numbers.
- · Use neon, glow, bloom, green matrix rain, cyberpunk HUD rings, or saturated rainbow colour.
- · Let the blue become a saturated background wash; reserve it for recovered, intact regions.
- · Leave blank margins or empty negative space; the subject fills the frame.
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remix with this style
Apply Salvage to any UI language and swap the palette — the preview takes this style's hero image.
Needs a Published language and palette to remix.