Photo Folk Rubbing Geometry Poster

Photo Folk Rubbing Geometry Poster

Use the system imagegen skill and image-generation tool. Treat each uploaded photograph as the edit source. Every lower graphic must have a traceable source, a thematic meaning, and a structural function.

Output contract

• Produce one independent raster poster for every uploaded photo. Never combine photos into a collage, contact sheet, comparison layout, diptych, or shared canvas.
• Use a 3:4 portrait canvas with one exact horizontal 50/50 division. Keep truthful photography in the upper half and the geometric folk-rubbing graphic in the lower half. Do not let either medium invade the other.
• Preserve immediate correspondence through one core motif's identity, silhouette, posture, relationship, structural rhythm, and source-derived color.
• Render visible title and annotation text in Japanese unless the user explicitly requests another language.
• Return every poster as a separate image. Keep user-facing commentary to one short status sentence only when necessary.

Preserve the photographic upper half

Keep the source recognizably photographic. Preserve subject identity and count, anatomy or construction, proportions, pose, silhouette, direction, spatial relationships, real materials, natural light, and the original color atmosphere.

Apply only restrained art-publication or exhibition-photography color correction. Do not redraw, vectorize, beautify, materially relight, or apply print texture, geometry, typography, or graphic overlays to this region.

Crop deliberately for the upper half. When more area is needed, extend only plausible sky, ground, wall, water, foliage, or environmental background. Never stretch, warp, mirror, duplicate, or redesign the subject.

Identify one source-backed meaning

Before prompting, privately identify:

1. the photograph's core subject or inseparable relationship;
2. its most recognizable silhouette, posture, direction, scale, openings, and structural turns;
3. the image's actual action, emotion, cultural attribute, social use, ritual association, local material, or symbolic relationship when visibly supported;
4. one core visual motif capable of carrying that meaning;
5. zero to three auxiliary forms required for narrative, scale, direction, or balance;
6. the details that can disappear without harming recognition or meaning;
7. the subject's recurring ratios, arcs, axes, tangencies, mirrored parts, or nested spaces;
8. the upper photograph's most spirited colors and their area hierarchy;
9. one concise Japanese title and only the micro-annotations genuinely supported by the source.

If cultural identity, location, ritual, craft, or symbolism is not reliably shown or known, do not invent it. Build the interpretation from visible function, action, material, relationship, emotion, or form instead.

Do not expose this analysis or repeat the user's design brief.

Build a geometric matrix from the subject

Derive a limited framework of circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, arcs, axes, grids, or repeated ratios from the hero's actual geometry. Record which subject feature generates each construction: wheel diameter, roof pitch, shoulder line, petal orbit, vessel belly, branch angle, gaze direction, path curve, horizon, or another visible structure.

Use the matrix to govern all lower decisions:

• align major forms and typography to common axes;
• create shared tangencies between contours and circles or arcs;
• nest secondary graphics inside source-derived voids;
• mirror only when the source supports symmetry or meaningful opposition;
• repeat proportions across motif, auxiliary forms, and spacing;
• crop at edges along the same geometry;
• shape negative space as an active continuation of the matrix.

The layout may be asymmetric, distributed, off-center, enlarged, cropped, or extend beyond the edge. It must still have one clear center of gravity, readable hierarchy, controlled rhythm, and quiet space. At distance, the order should be obvious; close viewing may reveal print traces and fine notes.

Do not impose a golden ratio, generic Bauhaus grid, mandala, seal, radial sun, or fixed geometric template when the source does not generate it.

Transform one motif, not the entire photo

Rebuild the core motif with silhouette, negative space, partial enlargement, shape merging, symbolic transformation, and a few decisive internal divisions. Preserve the hero's identity and meaning while deleting incidental scenery and surface description.

Use auxiliary forms only when they clarify a relationship, action, cultural function, scale, rhythm, or directional force. Each one must align to the same matrix and remain visibly subordinate.

Do not translate each source object, build a collage of many materials, scatter small symbols, add generic traditional patterns, or decorate empty areas. Remove any shape whose absence would not weaken recognition, meaning, or structural balance.

Translate a paper-print palette

Choose a bright, light paper-colored ground with ample breathing room. Use one dark ink color to establish the skeleton and one or two theme colors derived from the upper photograph for the core motif and limited accents.

Preserve the source's most distinctive and life-filled hue relationship, then clean and simplify it. Build depth through area ratio, overprinting, paper show-through, and tonal contrast rather than many colors.

Keep color clear, vivid, restrained, and spirited. Avoid dirty artificial aging, fixed red-black folk palettes, stereotypical “traditional” combinations, gray-brown casts, sepia wash, rainbow print layers, neon accents, and equal-area multicolor fills.

Contrast rough ink with precise order

Combine antique rubbing, dry-brush screen printing, woodblock transfer, and vintage catalog ink behavior. Inside graphic forms, show broken ink, abrasion, dry edges, uneven density, minor registration drift, and exposed paper.

Keep the outer geometry, important contours, tangencies, axes, type alignment, and overall layout crisp and deliberate. Material irregularity may interrupt fill but must not dissolve the structural framework.

Use physical matte ink and subtle paper grain. Avoid distressed overlays applied uniformly across the page, dirty background texture, torn-paper collage, photorealistic shading, watercolor washes, glossy gradients, 3D bevels, or digitally noisy grunge.

Integrate Japanese editorial information

Derive one concise Japanese title from the source's theme, meaning, action, or supported cultural attribute. Add only a few Japanese micro-annotations when they clarify state, material, direction, relationship, or motif logic.

Place text along matrix axes, shaped negative space, contours, arcs, or graphic boundaries. It may align, nest, interweave, or share tangencies with the main form, but it must remain supporting information rather than the visual center.

Prefer short wording that can render legibly. Do not invent cultural claims, locations, dates, coordinates, issue numbers, long explanations, pseudo-Japanese, logos, brands, signatures, or watermarks.

Compile the image-edit prompt

Write one source-specific production prompt per input photo containing:

1. one independent 3:4 portrait output and the exact 50% photography / 50% folk-rubbing graphic split;
2. the upper-half preservation invariants, restrained color correction, crop, and any safe background extension;
3. the source-backed meaning, core motif, recognition cues, and intentionally deleted information;
4. the zero-to-three auxiliary forms and each one's narrative or structural job;
5. the exact geometric matrix, the source feature generating every shape or ratio, and the shared axes, tangencies, nesting, mirroring, progression, crops, and negative-space logic;
6. the layout's center of gravity, scale hierarchy, rhythm, off-center placement, edge behavior, and reading path;
7. the light paper ground, dark skeleton ink, one or two source-derived theme colors, area ratios, overprints, and tonal hierarchy;
8. the rubbing, woodblock, dry-screen, and catalog-print texture inside forms, contrasted with precise boundaries and alignment;
9. the exact Japanese title and micro-annotations with their matrix-aware placement;
10. hard exclusions: no multi-photo layout, no altered or redrawn upper subject, no approximate split, no full-scene translation, no realistic lower illustration, no arbitrary geometric template, no generic folk symbol, no scattered decorative elements, no material collage, no evenly distributed layout, no uniform dirty aging, no fixed traditional palette, no pseudo-Japanese, no logo, and no watermark.

Use concrete evidence, geometric construction, print behavior, color ratios, and hierarchy rather than relying on adjectives such as “premium,” “traditional,” or “modern.”

Inspect and correct

Review every result at full size and thumbnail size. Verify the exact split, truthful upper photography, one recognizable and meaningful core motif, source-generated geometry, one center of gravity, precise long-range order, sparse auxiliary forms, bright paper, restrained source colors, rough ink contained within crisp structure, and legible Japanese information.

If geometry feels arbitrary, tie every circle, axis, arc, or ratio back to a visible source feature and delete the rest. If the design becomes decorative folklore, remove unsupported symbols and recover the source proposition. If texture weakens hierarchy, confine abrasion to fills and restore critical edges. If it looks like a material collage, merge the graphic into one ink-print system. If Japanese text is malformed, shorten it and regenerate. Regenerate with one targeted correction when needed.