# Databending (データベンディング) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.588 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/databending
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Databending, a technique from Digital Image Techniques, 2000s–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style 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 images.

## What has to be visible

- 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

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: 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
- Material and surface: Duplicate the file, protect its header and edit only payload data through another format's editor
- Colour: #00E4C6 carries the ground, #FF3D8D is the colour the style is remembered by, #101018 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: rebellion, technique, play

## What goes wrong

A glitch overlay is not databending. The way one format was deliberately misread must determine the result.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers 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 language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/databending/design.md