Teal Underwater Vortex with Off-Center Glow

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Swirling vortex arrangement where soft, spiraling streams of cool teal and deep blue wrap around a hazy center situated slightly left of the frame, giving a sense of slow, underwater rotation. The color palette leans on clean teal, seafoam, and cool blue with pockets of deep navy in the outer swirls, accented by tiny hints of mint where light blooms most strongly. The main focal cluster is the off-center vortex heart, a rounded, diffused glow of pale teal that feels like light seen through moving water, with layered, semi-transparent, glassy arcs spiraling outward and overlapping, each one softer and darker as it recedes into the surrounding fog. The right half of the canvas remains calmer and more open, a smooth gradient field of cool blue fading into navy, with only faint ghost traces of the spiral, kept intentionally low-contrast as negative space. Depth is emphasized by a few subtly larger, nearer arcs whose edges appear slightly more luminous and glossy, plus extremely soft, bokeh-like orbs suspended between the spiral layers. Illumination feels like a cool, sub-surface glow emanating from the vortex and gently reinforced from the upper left, with broad shadows and no harsh highlights, and the entire scene stays strictly abstract, with no readable text or recognizable imagery.
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Prompt breakdown
The image prompt captures subject, setting, and style cues. Primary themes: bokeh-orbs, deep-blue-spiral, glassy-arcs, navy-negative-space.
Technical details
The image model used to generate this AI artwork was GPT-Image-1 Mini. Prompt writing was assisted by gpt-5-mini. Aspect ratio is 3:2.
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