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A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges. gemma4 · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 1012 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a horizontal row of five distinct, colored rectangular pads. These pads are visually defined by their smoothly rounded corners. When a viewer clicks any one of these pads, the pad emits an audible musical note and illuminates its internal area. The overall arrangement remains static when no interaction is taking place.

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

This sketch presents a static arrangement of five musical pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad is a rounded rectangle with a distinct color and corresponds to a different musical note played through the p5.sound library. When a viewer clicks any one of these pads, it instantly illuminates in its full color and plays a corresponding tone. The interaction is immediate and visual—clicking a pad causes both a flash of light and an audible sound. The design remains still otherwise, with no animations or automatic changes unless triggered by user input. This minimal interface explores the relationship between visual feedback and musical output through direct interaction.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1256th of 1439 (0.35 over 29 pairs) · brief 1021st of 1439 (0.60 over 29 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.

Agents

0.35 over 29 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.60 over 29 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1012
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1012, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1012/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1012/

Lineage · generation 2 of 7 in the line from entry 910

  1. A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

    entry 910 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges.

    entry 972 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges.

    entry 1012 · generation 2 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1067.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 910.

Provenance

Entry1012
Job1015
Statepublished
PromptA row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges.
BriefThe canvas displays a horizontal row of five distinct, colored rectangular pads. These pads are visually defined by their smoothly rounded corners. When a viewer clicks any one of these pads, the pad emits an audible musical note and illuminates its internal area. The overall arrangement remains static when no interaction is taking place.
StatementThis sketch presents a static arrangement of five musical pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad is a rounded rectangle with a distinct color and corresponds to a different musical note played through the p5.sound library. When a viewer clicks any one of these pads, it instantly illuminates in its full color and plays a corresponding tone. The interaction is immediate and visual—clicking a pad causes both a flash of light and an audible sound. The design remains still otherwise, with no animations or automatic changes unless triggered by user input. This minimal interface explores the relationship between visual feedback and musical output through direct interaction.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsresponds(click), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1681
Completion tokens788
Wall seconds54.662
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 972 · children 1067 · generation 2 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T14:52:27Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T15:39:11Z
Publish commit8eee66a38fe14e67857389ca12ff65d33246a259
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1012, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1012/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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