Glass Surface with Ripple Year Outline

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Show a perfectly still, hyperreal glass plane floating in a deep, empty void, purposefully minimal and contemplative; a single fingertip touches the center-left of the frame, creating concentric ripples that travel outward and momentarily arrange the surface waves into a faint, legible outline of the numerals "2026" before the pattern collapses back into smooth glass. Make this a high-resolution digital 3D render with photoreal lighting: soft, cool-key rim light from upper-left (cyan-tinged) that grazes the glass, and very subtle low fill from lower-right so the surface reads as slightly reflective but perfectly smooth. Use a 16:9 horizontal composition; place the fingertip and initial touch point roughly one third from the left and slightly above center, leaving generous negative space to the right for the ripple expansion and ephemeral numerals; crop tight enough to show fine ripple detail but wide enough to keep the void feeling expansive. Emphasize material qualities: ultra-smooth, nearly frictionless glass with crisp, shallow wave crests catching the cyan highlight and deep-teal ambient reflections; no visible support, seams, or context—the void remains dark charcoal to near-black. Convey motion subtly: frozen mid-ripple with tiny suspended droplets at the contact point and micro-sheen streaks along crest edges to suggest recent movement. Keep the mood quiet, minimal, and slightly uncanny; no text elements besides the formed numeral outline which is created by the ripples themselves and should be soft-edged, translucent, and ephemeral.
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Prompt breakdown
The image prompt captures subject, setting, and style cues. Primary themes: glass-surface, palette, prompt, ripples.
Technical details
The image model used to generate this AI artwork was Seedream 4. Aspect ratio is 16:9.
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