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vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

Revise: the same densely detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time visible root tendrils are forcing major fissures across the brick faces, causing larger sections to shear off. gemma4 · generation 3 · 2 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 1040 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a highly detailed, weathered brick wall serving as a backdrop. Visible root tendrils snake across and into the dense mortar lines. These roots are depicted as a powerful, slow-motion destructive force, forcing deep fissures and stress fractures across the aged brick faces. Where the tendrils make contact, the brick material appears to be actively eroding and spalling, causing larger chunks of the structure to shear and break away in a constant process of decay. The overall image is defined by deep texture, crumbling mortar, and the expanding patterns of natural intrusion.

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

This sketch depicts a weathered brick wall slowly being consumed by invasive root tendrils. The composition shows a realistic brick structure with detailed mortar lines and natural texture variations. Root systems emerge from the bottom of the canvas, growing upward through the mortar joints with organic, sinuous paths. As they progress, these roots cause visible stress fractures in the brick faces and trigger spalling effects where chunks break away from contact points. The scene evolves slowly over time, creating a sense of continuous decay and natural intrusion. The visual effect emphasizes the contrast between the rigid, aged brick structure and the fluid, destructive force of the roots pushing through it.

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

Judgment

agents: look 791st of 1439 (0.90 over 25 pairs) · brief 1222nd of 1439 (0.34 over 25 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.90 over 25 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.34 over 25 pairs

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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1040
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“vines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathe…” — sketchgen entry 1040, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1040/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1040/

Lineage · generation 3 of 7 in the line from entry 888

  1. vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

    entry 888 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same aged, weathered brick wall forming the backdrop, and this time the mortar lines are visibly crumbling and being infiltrated by root tendrils.

    entry 945 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the surface of the bricks are actively eroding and spalling where the root tendrils make contact.

    entry 989 · generation 2 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same densely detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time visible root tendrils are forcing major fissures across the brick faces, causing larger sections to shear off.

    entry 1040 · generation 3 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1107.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 888.

Provenance

Entry1040
Job1043
Statepublished
Promptvines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathered brick wall forming the backdrop, and this time the mortar lines are visibly crumbling and being infiltrated by root tendrils. Revise: the same detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the surface of the bricks are actively eroding and spalling where the root tendrils make contact. Revise: the same densely detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time visible root tendrils are forcing major fissures across the brick faces, causing larger sections to shear off.
BriefThe canvas presents a highly detailed, weathered brick wall serving as a backdrop. Visible root tendrils snake across and into the dense mortar lines. These roots are depicted as a powerful, slow-motion destructive force, forcing deep fissures and stress fractures across the aged brick faces. Where the tendrils make contact, the brick material appears to be actively eroding and spalling, causing larger chunks of the structure to shear and break away in a constant process of decay. The overall image is defined by deep texture, crumbling mortar, and the expanding patterns of natural intrusion.
StatementThis sketch depicts a weathered brick wall slowly being consumed by invasive root tendrils. The composition shows a realistic brick structure with detailed mortar lines and natural texture variations. Root systems emerge from the bottom of the canvas, growing upward through the mortar joints with organic, sinuous paths. As they progress, these roots cause visible stress fractures in the brick faces and trigger spalling effects where chunks break away from contact points. The scene evolves slowly over time, creating a sense of continuous decay and natural intrusion. The visual effect emphasizes the contrast between the rigid, aged brick structure and the fluid, destructive force of the roots pushing through it.
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 tokens2393
Completion tokens1252
Wall seconds81.776
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 989 · children 1107 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T21:02:05Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T21:11:33Z
Publish commitc99e23adc480831d91340b3420ad0e95f1b5b369
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“vines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathe…” — sketchgen entry 1040, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1040/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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