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CRT scanlines

A picture on a cathode-ray tube: thin dark horizontal lines, glowing blur, a curved screen and dark corners.

Visual traits

  • Thin dark horizontal lines run across the whole picture at a fixed small pitch
  • Bright areas bleed and glow slightly into their neighbors
  • The screen bulges (barrel distortion) and has rounded corners
  • Edges and corners are darker than the center (vignette)

For AI

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Prompt

Shown on a CRT screen: thin dark horizontal scanlines at a fixed small pitch across the whole picture, bright areas slightly bleeding and glowing, barrel distortion with rounded corners, and darker edges and corners.

Negative prompt

flat LCD, sharp pixels, perfectly straight edges, no scanlines