Putin warns of direct conflict with Russia and Ukrainian forces target a nuclear training center while crypto leaders predict a bullish year and Apple designs new game controllers.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-09-19 00:04Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A dense cityscape at dusk with people of various ages and occupations walking in different directions, some looking up at a darkening sky with clouds gathering, as a drone flies in the distance, and a large screenless window of a building reflects the vibrant colors of the setting sun, with a few individuals in the foreground engaged in conversations, surrounded by subtle hints of technology and nature.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A dense cityscape at dusk with people of various ages and occupations walking in different directions, some looking up at a darkening sky with clouds gathering, as a drone flies in the distance, and a large screenless window of a building reflects the vibrant colors of the setting sun, with a few individuals in the foreground engaged in conversations, surrounded by subtle hints of technology and nature. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
f8f9551719e9aad4a5b9c6ab490c569fbfb7e68e59e09fbe61d6510b92616994
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