# Databending × Datamosh — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=databending+datamosh
# Databending carries the structure and Datamosh appears as the accent.
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images that take their structure from Databending (technique, 2000s–) and their accent from Datamosh (technique, 2005–).

## What to make

Make the kind of thing Databending exists for: showing the fragility and format-dependence of digital files through the damaged image, or colliding source imagery with decoder error in video, covers and posters. Choose one subject and hold it across all four.

## Structure comes from Databending

- Sections of an image displaced into horizontal bands
- Separated color channels and unexpected saturation
- Local compression blocks that leave the source visible
- Row-like fractures repeating from the edit point

Composition: Preserve one identifiable point and use the fracture direction as a compositional axis. Type and lettering: Add copy after bending, or displace only part of a duplicate headline along the same axis.

## Accent comes from Datamosh, used sparingly

- Melting, flowing frames
- Macroblock debris
- Motion vectors dragging pixels
- Compression exposed

Let one material quality come from it: Set compression first and choose keyframe intervals as a creative call.

## Colour and feeling

Build the ground on #00E4C6, carry the structure in #FF3D8D and #101018, and let a single accent come from #80718f. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette.
Feeling to carry: rebellion, technique, play.

## Where they fight

- Databending and Datamosh both belong to Digital Image Techniques, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Databending and Datamosh are techniques rather than looks. Decide which one runs last in the process, because that is the one that will show.

## What goes wrong

- Databending: A glitch overlay is not databending. The way one format was deliberately misread must determine the result.
- Datamosh: Melting the whole piece so nothing is ever recognizable, leaving no intact image for the collapse to work against.

## Across the four

Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.

Design specs for each entry: https://indexstyle.org/styles/databending/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/datamosh/design.md