An oversized transparent lighter floats in a near-black void, its brass top flipped open and tilted back, with a teardrop-shaped flame at the tip featuring a white-hot core, orange-gold outer flame, and deep blue base at the bottom. Sealed and operating inside the transparent glass body is a miniature gilded refinery: brass distillation columns, spherical storage tanks, labyrinthine pipes with flanged valves, pressure gauge dials, gear mechanisms, molten metal flowing, fine wispy steam rising; three orange-clad workers the size of knuckles, wearing hard hats and gloves, turn valve handwheels, calibrate flanges with wrenches, and stand by the molten gold trough with long-handled ladles. In the inky blue-black engineered void, a faint golden ghost blueprint linework dissolves into the shadows; the dark mirrored ground reflects the flame and golden glow, scattered with tiny copper gears, bolts, and glass beads; a minuscule engineer silhouette outside the shell holds a lantern, gazing up at the flame. Photorealistic 3D cinematic CG rendering, high contrast of near-black × transparent glass × warm gold, self-illuminated volumetric lighting and Tyndall light cones inside the shell, glass refraction and reflection with ground caustics, haute couture screen print texture: halftone dot fadeout, matte paper fibers, registration misalignment, film grain, four-corner vignetting. No text.
