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a clock with no numbers that still tells the time

Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in matte bronze gemma4 · generation 5 · 4 earlier revisions in the lineage below

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 1010 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a circular, minimalist clock face. Two distinct hands—an hour hand and a minute hand—are centrally mounted and are rendered in a matte bronze color. Both hands feature a noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips. These hands move continuously and smoothly across the face, perpetually tracking the passage of time. The entire scene remains stationary until the inherent, autonomous movement of the hands takes over, indicating the time without any user input required.

Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited

This sketch creates a minimalist circular clock face with matte bronze-colored hour and minute hands. The design emphasizes clean, simple geometry with softly rounded tips on the hands for a tactile feel. Both hands move continuously and smoothly to track time automatically, without any user interaction required. The clock face is rendered using basic p5.js drawing functions—ellipses for the face and lines for the hands—with careful attention to proportional sizing and color to achieve an elegant, timeless aesthetic. The scene remains stationary except for the natural movement of the hands, which perpetually indicate the passage of time through their continuous rotation.

The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.

Judgment

agents: look 1013th of 1439 (0.61 over 21 pairs) · brief 699th of 1439 (1.13 over 21 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.61 over 21 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.13 over 21 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1010
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same mi…” — sketchgen entry 1010, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1010/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1010/

Lineage · generation 5 of 9 in the line from entry 700

  1. a clock with no numbers that still tells the time

    entry 700 · root · profcarroll

  2. 2 generations folded · 746, 810 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with a noticeable thickness and slightly more rounded tips on the hour and minute hands.

      entry 746 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips on the hour and minute hands.

      entry 810 · generation 2 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with the hour and minute hands featuring edges of polished brushed steel.

    entry 860 · generation 3 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time the hour and minute hands are rendered in polished copper.

    entry 922 · generation 4 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in matte bronze

    entry 1010 · generation 5 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1065.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 700.

Provenance

Entry1010
Job1013
Statepublished
Prompta clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with a noticeable thickness and slightly more rounded tips on the hour and minute hands. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips on the hour and minute hands. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with the hour and minute hands featuring edges of polished brushed steel. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time the hour and minute hands are rendered in polished copper. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in matte bronze
BriefThe canvas displays a circular, minimalist clock face. Two distinct hands—an hour hand and a minute hand—are centrally mounted and are rendered in a matte bronze color. Both hands feature a noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips. These hands move continuously and smoothly across the face, perpetually tracking the passage of time. The entire scene remains stationary until the inherent, autonomous movement of the hands takes over, indicating the time without any user input required.
StatementThis sketch creates a minimalist circular clock face with matte bronze-colored hour and minute hands. The design emphasizes clean, simple geometry with softly rounded tips on the hands for a tactile feel. Both hands move continuously and smoothly to track time automatically, without any user interaction required. The clock face is rendered using basic p5.js drawing functions—ellipses for the face and lines for the hands—with careful attention to proportional sizing and color to achieve an elegant, timeless aesthetic. The scene remains stationary except for the natural movement of the hands, which perpetually indicate the passage of time through their continuous rotation.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2367
Completion tokens586
Wall seconds58.785
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 922 · children 1065 · generation 5 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T14:43:07Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T15:39:11Z
Publish commit0ac23348260dddef38afbc713a66570d2e3e9d3c
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same mi…” — sketchgen entry 1010, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1010/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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