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Experiment · complete

Organic Chrome final: Solar Cathedral

Can the two winning lanes extend the visual language into an original campaign-ready hero?

Runs
6
Variable
winning model lane
Prompt
oc26-f2-solar-cathedral-prompt v1.0

Protocol

Operator-directed Organic Chrome campaign: translucent glass/chrome organic geometry on a near-black editorial field, evaluated through controlled replication, direction expansion, and final concept rounds.

Frozen prompt template

Square 1:1 world-class abstract campaign key art; no text, logo, product, people, symbols, captions, or watermark. Premium physically based ray-traced CGI with tactile translucent chrome, clear resin, internal refraction, razor-clean highlights, controlled studio lighting, rich blacks, and meticulous coherent geometry. Make one iconic composition with intentional severe negative space and a strong silhouette. It must feel like a new art direction evolved from organic glass ribbons, not a simple recolor of a coil.  CONCEPT: Monumental transparent-metal architecture built from soaring amber and pale-gold ribbons, like a cathedral grown from a solar flare. A cavernous central aperture reveals pure black space; icy cyan edge light cuts across warm refraction. Extreme scale, controlled symmetry breaking, no literal building details.

Review rubric

  • Prompt Adherence
  • Material Realism
  • Negative Space
  • Geometric Coherence
  • Campaign Readiness
  • Originality

Notes

Three unseeded repetitions each for GPT Image 2 Medium and Grok Imagine Image 2.0. Timeout attempts are retained; missing Grok cells were repaired with bounded single-image requests.

Evidence

Recorded runs