# Shattered Glass Refraction

> Connected angular glass shards displace portions of the original image along clear cracks and narrow highlights.

[Web page](https://aistylebook.com/image/shattered-glass-refraction/)

## About this style

Shattered refraction shifts a portion of the image inside each connected clear shard. Cracks and fine edge reflections need to follow actual facets so the effect reads as viewing through broken glass. Enough continuity remains in key regions to preserve the original image.

Shattered glass offsets background fragments through connected transparent facets.

A portrait displaced across cracks while remaining partly aligned can locate the disruption in the glass rather than arbitrary image cutting.

### How the style changes different subjects

- **Portrait**: Parts of the face shift or overlap, contrasting intact features with refracted fragments.

- **Landscape**: Building lines, lights and skylines split into displaced pieces, as if viewed through differently angled glass.

- **Object**: Highlights and edges repeat across fragments, making glossy glass or metal especially prominent.

**Subjects**: Choose portraits with simple backgrounds, night lights or isolated glossy objects, leaving enough intact area for recognition.

## Visual keywords

angular shards · cracks · local displacement · clear glass thickness · thin edge glints · fragment continuity

## Names and related terms

Broken-glass refraction · Cracked-pane image

## Style examples

- [Portrait](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/shattered-glass-refraction-people.png?v=5b7adb07615042a6)

- [Landscape](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/shattered-glass-refraction-landscape.png?v=c782b97b23a845f5)

- [Object](https://img.aistylebook.com/ascii-artworks/shattered-glass-refraction-objects.png?v=76a7948bec42a063)

## Reusable style prompt

```text
Show the original image through a cracked clear glass sheet divided into irregular angular shards. Keep the pieces largely connected across the frame, but let each shard refract a slightly shifted or rotated portion of the source. Use thin sharp crack lines, subtle bevel highlights and small changes in reflection to reveal believable glass thickness. Retain enough aligned regions to keep the source composition recognizable. Avoid replacing the scene with abstract crystals, adding flying debris, turning surfaces into stone or applying a flat drawn crack texture over an unchanged image.
```

## Photo creation and prompts

Photo generation requires an account and credits; the cost is shown before generation.

[Create with this style](https://aistylebook.com/photo.html?style=34025&lang=en#studio)

## Related styles

- [Pressed Glass Facets](https://aistylebook.com/image/pressed-glass-facets/): Also redirects imagery through many glass facets, keeping the pressed pane intact.

- [Prismatic Reflections](https://aistylebook.com/image/prismatic-reflections/): Reduces many displaced fragments to a single peripheral prism reflection.

- [Glass 3D](https://aistylebook.com/image/glass-3d/): Offers another glass treatment through intact, softly frosted forms.

## References

- [NASA: Wave Behaviors](https://science.nasa.gov/ems/03_behaviors/)