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Lumiphor

Photography: Dithering, Scanline rendering

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The prompt

{subject}, rendered entirely as a vintage green-phosphor CRT monitor display, luminous monochrome scanline rendering with bright phosphor edge-glow tracing every contour, fine horizontal scanlines crossing the whole image, dot-matrix dithering shading the midtones and shadows, soft CRT bloom and halation off the brightest highlights, {palette}, scarce amber and cyan phosphor flecks as the only accents, deep black-green ground, antique oscilloscope vector-trace quality, fills the entire frame edge to edge

Materials
CRT phosphor
Techniques
Dithering, Scanline rendering

phosphor, green screen, scanlines, crt bloom, monochrome

Slot recipes

How the prompt changes for each kind of picture.

  • Hero: A commanding single subject at landscape scale, full-bleed, rendered in Lumiphor with the brightest phosphor bloom concentrated on the focal contour and the scanlines sweeping across the full width; deep black-green ground gives the hero its depth.
  • Feature: A medium subject framed close, clear silhouette traced in luminous green with crisp dot-matrix dithering in the shadows; one or two amber/cyan flecks mark the point of interest.
  • Avatar: A tight head-and-shoulders or single-object portrait, square, contours glowing emerald against near-black, gentle halation around the highlights, scanlines fine and even.
  • Empty state: A sparse calm subject with generous dark space around it, faint phosphor afterglow and slow scanline texture, no accents: quiet and resting like an idle terminal.
  • Illustration: A richer scene with layered depth, foreground subject in bright phosphor, background falling into dot-matrix dither and black-green, a few scarce amber/cyan flecks distributed for rhythm.

Guidance

Do

  • Render every subject in luminous emerald-green monochrome as if drawn by a CRT electron beam.
  • Lay fine horizontal scanlines across the entire frame and add soft bloom/halation on the brightest contours.
  • Use dot-matrix dithering to shade midtones and shadows so gradients read as discrete phosphor dots.
  • Keep amber and cyan as scarce single-point accents on the focal feature only.
  • Let the subject fill the frame edge to edge on a deep black-green ground.

Don’t

  • Do not draw a monitor bezel, hardware chrome, or a skeuomorphic device mockup — render the signal, not the screen.
  • Do not let it become rainbow neon cyberpunk; green is primary, amber and cyan stay scarce.
  • Do not add text, captions, or UI elements into the image.
  • Do not use glitch tearing or noise that obscures or distorts the subject.
  • Do not flatten into full-color photography or pastel — stay monochrome phosphor with high contrast.

In the lineage of

  • Green-phosphor terminal displays, tradition. monochrome CRT glow

A generated style is an aggregate of many influences. Credit goes to the artists and traditions it draws on; it is not a claim of authorship.

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Remix with this style

Apply Lumiphor to any UI language and swap the palette: the preview takes this style's hero image.