# Painted Thresholds — Image Prompts

Mode: built-in image generation and reference-image editing. These are generated adaptations, not pixel-identical reproductions. Original reference files are unchanged.

## 04-flower-sea

Use case: precise-object-edit. The supplied image is the EDIT TARGET, a screenshot containing a painting. Output JUST the painting, no black margins, date, UI, labels, signatures. Preserve its portrait artwork composition, expansive plain TURQUOISE BLUE sky, sparse flat brown-mauve clouds, exact huge floating orange-red flower and olive leaf crown, painted contour design, thin scraped / dry-brushed pigment surface, and muted turquoise / ochre / charcoal palette. The flower remains LARGE, approximately 40 percent of artwork width, not a small decorative sun. Do not turn it into a sunflower icon.
Make ONLY this scene change: replace the angular layered mountain ranges in the lower half with SEA SWELLS. Retain their original angular overlapping silhouette shapes and flat layered planes as closely as possible, but translate their pigment color to turquoise blue, blue-green and deep teal, similar to the SKY color. They are stylized FOLDED WAVES, not literal land, with a few pale turquoise crest edges and level quiet water between them. Replace the foreground lake/land with a broad still turquoise sea plane. No shoreline, sheep, village or buildings. The overall image must look very close to the source's painting and brushwork, except that mountain masses have become water. No sunset, no orange sea reflection, no foamy realistic sea, no swirls, no starry sky, no thick impasto flakes. Quiet surreal spacious painting, portrait approximately 2:3.

## 05-white-hills

Use case: precise-object-edit. Edit this painting with high fidelity. Preserve exact landscape composition, colours, flat designed shapes, thin dry-brush scratched surface, contour lines, broad white cloud bands across blue sky, layered green distant hills and tiny village, CENTRAL LARGE WHITE ROUND HILLS with bold BLACK STRIPES AND DOTS, dark teal horizontal middle band, the RED EARTH foreground and the little white sheep. Do NOT replace this with generic green pastoral hills or realistic landscape.
Change ONLY two things: REMOVE the large WHITE TREE in the foreground completely, filling its footprint coherently with the same red earth and fine horizontal contour marks; ADD one small ochre wooden chair in the cleared foreground, quietly situated in the landscape. The chair must be visibly a chair and painted in this same flat linear style. Everything else stays as close to source as possible. Output a clean full-bleed landscape painting, same approximately 4:3 ratio, no white photo border or text. No heavy impasto, no impressionist confetti, no added decorative elements.

## 06-plant-valley

Use case: precise-object-edit. Prepare this exact supplied painting as the right portal world of an art concept demo. Closely reproduce the original composition and painting, do NOT redesign or reinterpret it: broad deep BLUE SKY at top, single mauve floating cloud / rock shape near upper centre, ochre/rust upper cliffs, enormous dark charcoal sloping mountain on the left, smaller layered ochre hills to right, sparse dark branching trees, and foreground lower-right plants with black oval leaves, green/cream/yellow patches on thin stems. Broad muted sage foreground at bottom. Preserve these exact shapes, proportions, placement and colors. Same thin textured oil paint / dry brushing, architectural flat planes, deliberate contour lines, calm large areas. This is NOT a generic lush green garden; no iris, no pastoral woodland, no bulky leaf canopy. Remove only any handwritten signature. Clean full-bleed SQUARE image, no border or typography. No extra objects or figures; no fluorescent color, no glossy rendered texture or tiny mosaic strokes.

## 00-courtyard

Use case: compositing / style-transfer. Produce a revised wide 16:9 master painting for an English XR visual demo.
IMAGE ROLES: 1 is base layout/night lighting anchor only. 2 is exact LEFT portal world. 3 supplies BOTH front landscape AND the white foreground TREE DESIGN. 4 is exact RIGHT portal world. 5 supplies the exact blue TAIHU ROCK AND PINK FLOWER arrangement; ignore its screenshot UI/margins.
Preserve base room arrangement, roofless night courtyard, dark mirror walls with subtle reflections, glass doors, continuous still water floor and CENTRAL WATERFALL landing directly IN an open SHELL BASIN with a PEARL, gentle overflow. No grass inside. Quiet contemplative atmosphere.

REPLACE portal imagery faithfully:
LEFT glass doorway shows image 2: LARGE orange-red floating blossom, spacious flat TURQUOISE BLUE SKY, sparse mauve clouds, geometric layered TURQUOISE SEA WAVES. No sunset, no old dark realistic ocean, no moon.
FRONT rectangular doorway shows image 3's landscape: unmistakable WHITE ROUND HILLS with BLACK STRIPES AND DOTS, green terraced distance, white horizontal cloud band, RED EARTH foreground with little white sheep. Remove the foreground white tree from this portal and replace with a lone small ochre wooden CHAIR. Do not simplify this into generic pasture.
RIGHT arch shows image 4: deep blue sky with small floating mauve cloud, ochre cliffs, large dark CHARCOAL slope, sparse branching trees and black oval-leaf plants grouped low right. Not a generic leafy garden.

TREE: Relocate image 3's EXACT foreground WHITE TREE into the left courtyard water. Replace the entire base image's old tall curved trunk and canopy. Copy reference tree's SHORT BROAD sculptural white trunk splitting into several upward tapering WHITE finger-like limbs, dark brown/black flowing incised contour marks, and compact DARK GREEN rounded leaf clusters at limb ends. Distinct bold flat silhouette, NOT a realistic birch, NOT twisted sprawling bare branches. Scale it to occupy about half image height. Keep two modest grey-blue melting clocks draped over two forked limbs. Tree and clocks dim, not spotlighted.

ADD TAIHU ROCK WITH FLOWERS on the water surface to the RIGHT of the shell and slightly BEHIND it, in strip near mirror wall between front opening and right arch, leaving door views visible. Faithfully carry image 5's composition and exact colours: tall asymmetrical angular COBALT/ULTRAMARINE BLUE Taihu scholar's rock with multiple irregular rounded HOLES, narrow base, faceted flat blue shadow planes; soft PINK PEONY blossoms rising above and branching sideways across rock, thin deep green leaves, small companion blue stone near base. Preserve rock silhouette, hole placement, blossom arrangement and dusty pink shades, merely give subtle thin oil pigment finish rather than watercolor. Not vase, not generic floral bouquet on pedestal. Base meets water and has soft dark reflection. Arrangement around 25% of image height, noticeable but not competing with waterfall.

WHOLE-IMAGE STYLE: match supplied art's deliberate simplified painted SHAPES and thin rubbed/scraped pigment, flat planes, selective linear crosshatching, uneven hand-drawn edges and visible canvas. REPLACE base's uniform tiny thick impasto flakes with calmer broad paint layers. All elements belong to one painting. Quiet large dark blue-grey/teal masses inside; natural source palette in portals. No fluorescent saturation, no Van Gogh swirls, no glossy 3D renders, no photorealistic water or flowers, no sparkle/confetti, no heavy frosting texture. Keep shell and translucent waterfall as softly brightest interior focus, not harsh yellow glow. No human figures, text, borders or screenshot UI.

## 00-courtyard-tree-refinement

Use case: precise-object-edit. Image 1 is target courtyard. Image 2 provides ONE exact object: its white foreground TREE.
Change ONLY the white tree on the LEFT of image 1; all architecture, portals, flowers, Taihu rock, shell, pearl and waterfall, lighting, water and composition elsewhere must remain unchanged.
Faithfully copy the shape of the white tree from image 2 instead of inventing a similar tree. It is a deliberately FLAT graphic, thick tapering TRUNK rising as one WHITE BULBOUS COLUMN, with a few spear-like white broken fork limbs. Main trunk leans a little right and carries fine DARK BROWN parallel curved drawn striations, NOT realistic bark strips. Its top-left prong ends at a compact dark rounded green leaf cluster; one long narrow white branch points up-right with a dark rounded cluster at its tip; the right middle side has another compact cluster. Small handful of leaf clusters only, five to seven dense nearly black green lobed clumps. NO overhead spreading canopy, NO realistic birch branches, NO twisted trunks. Copy the reference tree's white-to-dark proportions and flat shape.
Place the complete tree silhouette within leftmost 22% of image, its top at about 30% from top, base in water at 79% image height, so it is a squat sculptural foreground object around half image height, NOT a tree filling full left border or extending across top. Keep two small grey melting clocks quietly draped on two available white fork limbs; adapt their placement to the tree, do not grow large branches for them. The left glass doorway must remain clearly visible beside it. Tree should look transferred from the supplied painting, with the same thin scraped paint and stylized contour treatment, no dimensional realistic shading. Soft reflection beneath it. No other changes. Landscape 16:9, no text.

## 01-active-shaping

Use case: compositing. This is condition A, active shaping, in the EXACT same reference scene, wide 16:9. Keep the EXACT reference courtyard and all its new features: short thick white forked tree and two clocks on left; turquoise geometric sea and big floating orange flower; striped/dotted white hills with red earth, sheep and chair in front opening; charcoal/rust mountain valley and oval-leaf plants in right arch; cobalt blue perforated Taihu rock with PINK flowers on right-side water; dark mirrored walls, glass doors and still pool; waterfall landing INSIDE central shell bowl with one pearl. Same soft dim night courtyard and separate daylight portal worlds. No fluorescent blue/yellow or van Gogh swirls. No text.
Add two simplified first-person painted adult hands low in foreground holding thick turquoise and sage/ivory malleable pigment pieces, like clay cut from one of the geometric sea-wave planes. One hand bends the thicker turquoise piece, other gently joins a pale piece to it, clear tactile action. Hands small enough not to dominate image. Add an ORIGINAL restrained abstract reclining sculpture, Henry Moore-like biomorphic natural/human volumes and one irregular hollow opening, hovering just over water in lower centre-right foreground. Broad joined turquoise-grey, sage and stone-ivory masses, calm hand-moulded form, no shiny material. It must NOT hide the blue Taihu rock / pink blossoms behind it or the shell. Hands and personal sculpture reflect same thin textured paint / broad designed shapes as the referenced landscape paintings. All style cohesive, not photo hands, no CGI. Do not alter the tree, Taihu rock or portal designs.

## 03-remembered-presence

Use case: compositing. Input 1 is exact courtyard environment. Input 2 is a reference for a visibly human yet softly painted figure integrated into landscape, not a request to reproduce identity or the umbrella. Create condition C of this same scene, wide 16:9. Keep the EXACT reference courtyard and all its new features: short thick white forked tree and two clocks on left; turquoise geometric sea and big floating orange flower; striped/dotted white hills with red earth, sheep and chair in front opening; charcoal/rust mountain valley and oval-leaf plants in right arch; cobalt blue perforated Taihu rock with PINK flowers on right-side water; dark mirrored walls, glass doors and still pool; waterfall landing INSIDE central shell bowl with one pearl. Same soft dim night courtyard and separate daylight portal worlds. No fluorescent blue/yellow or van Gogh swirls. No text.
ESSENTIAL: Add ONE clearly visible fictional adult PERSON at the RIGHT garden threshold. Previous versions made the person so small and hidden that viewers could not see them: DO NOT repeat that. Person should occupy approximately 28–32% of TOTAL IMAGE HEIGHT, about two-thirds height of right doorway, from head near upper-middle of arch to feet at doorway ground/water line. Place in right half of arch, to the RIGHT of the pink-flowered Taihu rock, with UNOBSTRUCTED HEAD, SHOULDERS, UPPER TORSO and one arm. Head-to-body proportions natural. Viewer must immediately see "there is a person" at normal image size, not hunt for it.
A quiet standing adult in loose PALE BLUE-GREY clothing with muted sage lower part, gentle relaxed three-quarter pose. Face softly suggested with a few broad warm-grey strokes, no crisp eyes, teeth or detailed features; no portrait realism. Head, shoulders and torso have sufficient light/dark contrast against charcoal mountain background. Lower body and clothing edge blend into the thin plant stems and broad landscape paint marks; some lost edges, but don't dissolve the head/torso. Reference 2's softly painted physical presence, NOT transparent ghost, no aura or glow, no tiny distant face, no all-over blur filter. NO umbrella, no second person. Retain calm night courtyard; figure belongs to daylight garden world. NO sculpture and NO foreground hands in C. Taihu rock and pink flowers stay fully visible. Thin textured hand-painted landscape language, coherent palette, no photo cutout.

## 02-symbolic-viewing

Use case: precise-object-edit. Edit this A concept painting into B passive symbolic viewing. Remove ONLY the two foreground hands and the small pigment form being held between them; replace their footprint with the same quiet reflected pool. Keep the completed turquoise/ivory/sage abstract reclining sculpture with hollow opening at lower RIGHT exactly as shown. Keep ALL background details and camera unchanged: white graphic forked tree with two clocks, left turquoise sea and floating big orange flower, front striped/dotted white hills and red land with chair and sheep, right charcoal/ochre plant valley, blue perforated Taihu rock and abundant pink flowers, glass doors, dark mirror walls, central waterfall landing into shell and pearl. Same subdued reflective courtyard and painterly color planes, no additional objects or people. Landscape 16:9, no text. The Taihu rock arrangement is separate from the personal abstract sculpture; retain both.

## 07-paint-to-form

Use case: illustration-story. The supplied image is the environment, palette, paint material and sculptural reference. Make a four-panel sequence, landscape 16:9 overall, four equal-width vertical panels separated by narrow dark lines, NO TEXT. All panels maintain the same thin painted surfaces, broad calm masses, muted turquoise/sage/ivory palette, contemplative mood.
Panel 1: a painterly hand lifts a solid TURQUOISE BRUSHSTROKE from the edge of a GEOMETRIC FOLDED SEA WAVE at the left doorway. The wave has angular layered planes like a mountain transformed into water, not realistic foamy surf. The detached stroke is a substantial malleable colored clay-like mass with visible painted ridges. Large orange flower against a spacious turquoise sky in background.
Panel 2: two hands press and bend this turquoise piece with an ivory piece; clear thumb indentation, no dripping water or liquid paint. A few broad pigment ridges, not gritty texture.
Panel 3: two hands join turquoise, sage and ivory masses into an original hollow biomorphic body-like form, show a seam being smoothed and a large opening being shaped.
Panel 4: completed quiet abstract reclining sculpture, the same rounded hollow form as input, above the courtyard water. The central shell catches the waterfall in the distance. Include the new cobalt blue Taihu scholar's rock with pink blossoms in right background so this is clearly the same scene. White graphic forked tree / clocks and striped white hills/red earth doorway as restrained cues.
Hands painted rather than photographic, no CGI. No newly added person. No fluorescent colors or yellow star spirals. No typography, no signature.