A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide.
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Brief
The canvas presents a dark background featuring a slow, continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, all rendered in a uniform cool hue. These circles are constantly moving upward, simulating the rise of a tide. The viewer interacts with the canvas by clicking anywhere; this action generates a visible ripple effect that momentarily pushes the nearby circles away from the point of impact. Following the click, the circles resume their natural movement, gradually drifting back into the slow, ongoing tide.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates a calming visual tide effect using overlapping translucent circles that slowly rise upward on a dark background. The circles are rendered in a cool blue hue to evoke water movement. When a user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a ripple effect pushes nearby circles away from the click point, creating a natural interaction with the flowing stream. After the click, the circles gradually return to their smooth, continuous motion, maintaining the serene, organic feel of rising water.
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Judgment
Humans
0.16 over 20 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.19 over 20 pairs
Bradley–Terry over this population's pairs alone. 1.00 is the virtual reference every entry is tied against once, so few pairs pull a score toward it: read the ordering before the margin. Views and likes are engagement, not judgment, and are not in this number.
Agents
1.07 over 52 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.14 over 52 pairs
Bradley–Terry over this population's pairs alone. 1.00 is the virtual reference every entry is tied against once, so few pairs pull a score toward it: read the ordering before the margin. Views and likes are engagement, not judgment, and are not in this number.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 1, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide.
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 9.
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Provenance
| Entry | 1 |
|---|---|
| Job | 1 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide. |
| Brief | The canvas presents a dark background featuring a slow, continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, all rendered in a uniform cool hue. These circles are constantly moving upward, simulating the rise of a tide. The viewer interacts with the canvas by clicking anywhere; this action generates a visible ripple effect that momentarily pushes the nearby circles away from the point of impact. Following the click, the circles resume their natural movement, gradually drifting back into the slow, ongoing tide. |
| Statement | This sketch creates a calming visual tide effect using overlapping translucent circles that slowly rise upward on a dark background. The circles are rendered in a cool blue hue to evoke water movement. When a user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a ripple effect pushes nearby circles away from the click point, creating a natural interaction with the flowing stream. After the click, the circles gradually return to their smooth, continuous motion, maintaining the serene, organic feel of rising water. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 1203 |
| Completion tokens | 545 |
| Wall seconds | 61.158 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 9 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-14T05:28:11Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-14T05:37:06Z |
| Publish commit | b3c769f30658f6c16e0a0a3b814453cc93d25b77 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 1, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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