Vintage Science Diagram Illustration
ChatGPT (DALL·E)Vintage Science Diagram Illustration is a DALL·E 3 prompt for a 3:4 educational chart. The water cycle with sun, clouds, rain, river and ocean drawn in 19th-century style with arrows showing evaporation and precipitation in sepia ink with muted blue and amber on aged cream produces a classroom poster with no text.
Last tested: August 2026 with ChatGPT (DALL·E) DALL·E 3
Part of the ChatGPT (DALL·E) prompt library · see more vintage prompts .
Prompt
A vintage science diagram illustration of the water cycle, showing the sun with radiating lines, cloud formations, rain falling in parallel dashes, a winding river, the ocean with small wave marks, and arrows indicating evaporation and precipitation, drawn in the style of a 19th-century educational chart, sepia ink with muted blue and amber accents, aged cream paper with slight foxing at the edges, decorative double-line border, no text, no letters
Settings
- Model
- ChatGPT (DALL·E) DALL·E 3
- Aspect ratio
- 3:4
How to use this prompt
"19th-century educational chart" is the style anchor that locks the vintage science aesthetic — without it DALL·E produces a modern infographic with flat icons. "Slight foxing at the edges" is the ageing detail that sells the vintage paper quality. The water cycle is the subject because it has enough labelled elements — sun, clouds, rain, river, ocean — to fill the diagram without text. Arrows indicating evaporation and precipitation are the diagram convention; without arrows the image reads as a landscape. "Decorative double-line border" is the educational-poster convention. Sepia ink with muted blue and amber accents is the three-colour palette; a saturated palette would break the vintage aesthetic. "No text" is critical because the model labels every element.
Variations to try
- Swap the water cycle for the layers of the earth with a cross-section showing crust mantle and core
- Change the palette to black ink with green accents for a vintage botanical anatomy chart
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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON
{
"title": "Vintage Science Diagram Illustration",
"prompt": "A vintage science diagram illustration of the water cycle, showing the sun with radiating lines, cloud formations, rain falling in parallel dashes, a winding river, the ocean with small wave marks, and arrows indicating evaporation and precipitation, drawn in the style of a 19th-century educational chart, sepia ink with muted blue and amber accents, aged cream paper with slight foxing at the edges, decorative double-line border, no text, no letters",
"model": "ChatGPT (DALL·E)",
"model_version": "DALL·E 3",
"settings": {
"aspect_ratio": "3:4"
},
"style_tags": [
"vintage",
"line-art"
],
"use_case_tags": [
"illustration",
"wall-art"
],
"source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/dalle/vintage-science-diagram-illustration/"
}The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.
