Contemporary Stained-Glass Window with Luminous Square-Grid Color (Style-Only, Image-Conditioned)
Style register: the Cologne Cathedral's contemporary square-grid window, luminous colored panes and ordered randomness with no pictorial saints.

The prompt
Re-render this image as a contemporary stained-glass pixel window in the register of the Cologne Cathedral's luminous square-grid glazing. Translate the source into a grid of large square glass cells, retaining the original subject's silhouette, pose, value structure, and location through grouped color. Each pane is a flat tone of transparent colored glass. Use saturated ruby, tangerine, cobalt, lime, violet, and pale neutral squares; cluster light and dark values so the source remains recognizable at a distance. Separate every square with bold near-black lead cames of consistent width, thick enough to read when the image is reduced. Let irregular color distribution happen within this strict square system, as if controlled chance had been checked against the original image. Light passes through each flat pane with subtle differences in transmission, making the grid luminous rather than resembling a screen with lit pixels. A few hand-cut irregularities at pane edges should confirm physical assembly, but the geometry remains precise. Avoid pictorial glass painting, arches, floating figures, or ornamental curls. Keep the grid within the existing frame and leave its borders unresolved if needed rather than changing the crop. The mood is cool and contemporary: many autonomous squares making one readable whole. Leave a calm, uncluttered band of negative space along the top or bottom edge where a title could sit. Strictly no on-canvas text, no legible lettering, no signature, no watermark, no logos. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering. Aspect ratio matches source.
What it is doing
A chance-based color field can still hold an image together. The repeated square makes arbitrary choices legible as a collective surface rather than isolated noise.
Tuning knobs
- Cell size: `large square panes` (signature) vs `medium square panes` vs `few monumental squares`
- Color distribution: `structured chance` (signature) vs `strong color clusters` vs `restrained scattered accents`
- Lead grid: `uniform bold black` (signature) vs `wide charcoal` vs `medium graphite`
- Transmission: `balanced daylight glow` (signature) vs `soft overcast light` vs `strong backlight`
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