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seismic activity

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

seed 1 · entry 1046 · published

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Brief

A dark background erupts with jagged red lines mimicking earthquake tremors that shake the canvas frame. These seismic shocks ripple outward from random points before fading, simulating ongoing tectonic stress. When a mouse click occurs, a fresh, larger quake originates at that exact location, sending shockwaves across the screen to demonstrate human intervention in the geological process.

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

This sketch visualizes tectonic stress through evolving red waveforms that burst from random points across a dark canvas, their jagged edges undulating like seismic waves before dissolving. Each mouse click injects human energy into the geological process, spawning a powerful quake whose ripples distort the entire landscape through noise-driven animation. The piece demonstrates how stochastic systems can simulate natural phenomena while responding to user interaction as both catalyst and conductor.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1257th of 1439 (0.35 over 40 pairs) · brief 791st of 1439 (0.96 over 40 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 40 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.96 over 40 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/1046
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts5
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1046, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1046/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1046/

Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. seismic activity

    entry 1046 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1113.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1046.

Provenance

Entry1046
Job1049
Statepublished
Promptseismic activity
BriefA dark background erupts with jagged red lines mimicking earthquake tremors that shake the canvas frame. These seismic shocks ripple outward from random points before fading, simulating ongoing tectonic stress. When a mouse click occurs, a fresh, larger quake originates at that exact location, sending shockwaves across the screen to demonstrate human intervention in the geological process.
StatementThis sketch visualizes tectonic stress through evolving red waveforms that burst from random points across a dark canvas, their jagged edges undulating like seismic waves before dissolving. Each mouse click injects human energy into the geological process, spawning a powerful quake whose ripples distort the entire landscape through noise-driven animation. The piece demonstrates how stochastic systems can simulate natural phenomena while responding to user interaction as both catalyst and conductor.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerqwen3.5:9b · prompt planner-v1
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 4: gate exit not run
attempt 5: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts5
Prompt tokens9069
Completion tokens5590
Wall seconds355.0
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1113 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3, attempt-4, attempt-5
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T21:36:16Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T21:37:20Z
Publish commitc0bb6431774fa10284191313b66114b2259baaf2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1046, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1046/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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