Moon components and templates

The authored composition: the landscape debit card hovering inside its halo over a still midnight sea.

A cratered gibbous moon half out of the sea, its other half given back by the water, with no halo drawn in front of it and the card stood upright and taken to cold platinum.

Iron oxide all the way down: Mars half out of a rust sea with its dark albedo features, rift and polar cap, the halo left out, and the upright card struck in copper.

Earth half out of the sea with its oceans, banded cloud deck, ice caps, city lights and sunlit terminator, the halo left out, and a phone whose screen carries a photograph of the same scene.

The authored field exactly as written: a twisted catenoid of hairline filaments flaring into a crown and splaying into roots, over a drifting blue star field.

The same field closed into a flower: the curve index cut into petals and arcs, every blade fluted across its width, and a moon that lights the petals it reaches under a cool sheen while the rest fall to deep magenta.

The field folded into a sunset range: one continuous surface of contours receding into a low sun, peaks and valleys sliding past each other, with a hot rim on every crest the sun can reach.

The field laid flat as open water: long swells running toward the viewer under a night sky, with the moon laying a glade of glints straight down the frame.