Pastel Pixel Seaside Diptych

Goal: Create a calming side-by-side diptych showing a seaside landscape transformed from a realistic travel-photo look into a soft pastel pixel-art reconstruction.

Canvas: Wide horizontal 16:9 composition, split exactly into 2 equal vertical panels with no border between them. Left panel is a bright photographic seaside scene; right panel is the same scene reimagined as low-resolution pixel art in healing pastel colors.

Layout: The horizon sits slightly below the middle. In both panels, show a turquoise-blue sea in the lower half, a long snow-capped mountain range across the center, and a large sky with fluffy clouds above. Near the lower-left/center area, include exactly 1 orange roadside pole with exactly 2 round convex traffic mirrors attached near the top, plus exactly 1 small vertical sign on the pole. Keep the pole and mirrors aligned between the two panels so the right side clearly feels like a pixel reconstruction of the left side.

Left panel details: Render as a clear, slightly overexposed coastal photograph with vivid cyan sky, white clouds, deep turquoise sea with small white wind ripples, distant snowy mountains, a gray concrete seawall at the bottom, and the orange traffic-mirror pole cropped near the left edge. The left side should feel like a real Japanese seaside road view on a sunny windy day.

Right panel details: Render the same composition in large blocky pixels, using a soft pastel palette of pale sky blue, cream, peach, light coral, powder blue, and lavender. Simplify the clouds and mountains into chunky square pixels. The sea becomes flat bands of blue with scattered small white pixel highlights. The pole is centered slightly left of the right panel’s middle and uses peach-orange pixels; the 2 circular mirrors are outlined in peach and contain simplified pixel reflections of snowy scenery. Add a pale cream foreground band at the bottom.

Decorative graphic elements on the right panel: Include exactly 5 decorative groups: 1 dotted halftone rectangle near the upper right, 1 dotted halftone block near the upper left/mid-left, 1 dotted halftone block near the lower right, 1 cluster of exactly 3 tiny hearts stacked vertically near the upper right, and 1 small sparkle/star near the right side. Add thin white horizontal and vertical geometric guide lines near the bottom-right edge for a clean graphic-design feel.

Text content: In the bottom-left of the right panel, add small pixel-style uppercase text reading {argument name="caption text" default="WIND FROM THE SEA CARRIES LIGHT."}. The pole sign may contain tiny vertical Japanese-style characters but they should be decorative and not the main focus.

Visual style: {argument name="visual style" default="pastel pixel-art reconstruction beside bright coastal photography"}, airy, nostalgic, serene, therapeutic color palette, high-key lighting, soft contrast, clean composition, no people, no vehicles, no watermark.