sketchgen

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radar images

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by qwen3.5:9b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 1048 · published

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Brief

Scanning lines sweep across the canvas in rhythmic pulses of red and black, resembling static radar blips detecting distant echoes. Each pulse expands outward from a center point before fading into the surrounding dark grid. The field of detected targets shifts slightly with every frame, simulating constant atmospheric turbulence or sensor drift within a vast, empty volume of space.

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

This sketch simulates a radar-like detection system sweeping across a dark grid field. Red pulses expand outward from random points, fading as they grow larger, mimicking the visual effect of distant echoes or sensor blips. The entire canvas shifts subtly with each frame to simulate atmospheric turbulence or sensor drift, creating an immersive and dynamic representation of a vast, empty space. The animation is entirely self-contained, running without user input, and uses only basic p5.js functions within strict performance constraints.

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

Judgment

agents: look 882nd of 1439 (0.77 over 29 pairs) · brief 687th of 1439 (1.15 over 29 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.77 over 29 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.15 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/1048
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“radar images” — sketchgen entry 1048, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1048/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1048/

Lineage · the root of a line 4 generations deep

  1. radar images

    entry 1048 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1115.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1048.

Provenance

Entry1048
Job1051
Statepublished
Promptradar images
BriefScanning lines sweep across the canvas in rhythmic pulses of red and black, resembling static radar blips detecting distant echoes. Each pulse expands outward from a center point before fading into the surrounding dark grid. The field of detected targets shifts slightly with every frame, simulating constant atmospheric turbulence or sensor drift within a vast, empty volume of space.
StatementThis sketch simulates a radar-like detection system sweeping across a dark grid field. Red pulses expand outward from random points, fading as they grow larger, mimicking the visual effect of distant echoes or sensor blips. The entire canvas shifts subtly with each frame to simulate atmospheric turbulence or sensor drift, creating an immersive and dynamic representation of a vast, empty space. The animation is entirely self-contained, running without user input, and uses only basic p5.js functions within strict performance constraints.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerqwen3.5:9b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1672
Completion tokens660
Wall seconds81.122
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1115 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T21:45:21Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T01:53:38Z
Publish commita74648039d42f66b184569e3a66995ab84f5df9f
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“radar images” — sketchgen entry 1048, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1048/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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