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glowing orbs

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by qwen3.5:9b, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest.

seed 1 · entry 1044 · published

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Brief

Numerous circular shapes radiate with soft, warm light across a dark canvas. They drift slowly across the screen, expanding and contracting rhythmically on their own without user interaction. Occasionally, a new orb pulses into existence at a random location while older ones fade into the background. No mouse movement or click alters the drifting field, ensuring the animation feels like an autonomous, living atmosphere. The visuals rely entirely on smooth gradient transitions and subtle color shifts within the glowing spheres to maintain visual interest.

Artist's statement · laguna-xs-2.1:latest, unedited

A slowly evolving field of luminous orbs drifts across a darkened space, each one pulsing and breathing with its own rhythm. New orbs emerge sporadically at random positions while older ones gradually fade away, creating a living, breathing atmosphere that feels autonomous and organic. The warm, colored glows interact through subtle transparency and gentle ripples, suggesting a quiet cosmic dance unfolds without purpose or end.

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

Judgment

agents: look 80th of 1439 (4.34 over 35 pairs) · brief 249th of 1439 (2.50 over 35 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

4.34 over 35 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.50 over 35 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/1044
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs” — sketchgen entry 1044, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1044/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · a root prompt, no children yet

  1. glowing orbs

    entry 1044 · root · profcarroll


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Provenance

Entry1044
Job1047
Statepublished
Promptglowing orbs
BriefNumerous circular shapes radiate with soft, warm light across a dark canvas. They drift slowly across the screen, expanding and contracting rhythmically on their own without user interaction. Occasionally, a new orb pulses into existence at a random location while older ones fade into the background. No mouse movement or click alters the drifting field, ensuring the animation feels like an autonomous, living atmosphere. The visuals rely entirely on smooth gradient transitions and subtle color shifts within the glowing spheres to maintain visual interest.
StatementA slowly evolving field of luminous orbs drifts across a darkened space, each one pulsing and breathing with its own rhythm. New orbs emerge sporadically at random positions while older ones gradually fade away, creating a living, breathing atmosphere that feels autonomous and organic. The warm, colored glows interact through subtle transparency and gentle ripples, suggesting a quiet cosmic dance unfolds without purpose or end.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerqwen3.5:9b · prompt planner-v1
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), size(400,400)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, size(400,400) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, size(400,400) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens3775
Completion tokens1985
Wall seconds131.017
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T21:25:51Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T21:37:20Z
Publish commit3a8657035f4de17965b060a85dcdd2e772d52022
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs” — sketchgen entry 1044, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1044/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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