sketchgen

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seismic activity

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

seed 1 · entry 1050 · published

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Brief

Violet seismic waves pulse across a dark grey canvas like underground energy surfacing. Thick jagged lines fracture horizontally, shifting speed and opacity based on horizontal mouse position, while vertical cracks bloom randomly without user input. Occasional bright white bolts shoot upward from the bottom edge when the cursor releases a drag. The entire field vibrates slightly on its own, simulating constant tectonic pressure before human interaction intensifies specific fractures or triggers new fault lines across the display.

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

This sketch simulates seismic activity beneath a dark grey landscape, with jagged fault lines pulsing and shifting according to mouse interaction. Thick horizontal cracks fracture across the canvas at varying speeds and opacities, responding dynamically to user drag gestures. Random vertical tremors bloom from below, while occasional bright white lightning bolts shoot upward when the cursor releases a drag near the bottom edge. The entire field subtly vibrates on its own, creating an atmosphere of constant tectonic tension that intensifies with human presence.

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

Judgment

agents: look 547th of 1439 (1.34 over 29 pairs) · brief 962nd of 1439 (0.68 over 29 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.34 over 29 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.68 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/1050
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1050, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1050/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1050/

Lineage · the root of a line 5 generations deep

  1. seismic activity

    entry 1050 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1116.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1050.

Provenance

Entry1050
Job1053
Statepublished
Promptseismic activity
BriefViolet seismic waves pulse across a dark grey canvas like underground energy surfacing. Thick jagged lines fracture horizontally, shifting speed and opacity based on horizontal mouse position, while vertical cracks bloom randomly without user input. Occasional bright white bolts shoot upward from the bottom edge when the cursor releases a drag. The entire field vibrates slightly on its own, simulating constant tectonic pressure before human interaction intensifies specific fractures or triggers new fault lines across the display.
StatementThis sketch simulates seismic activity beneath a dark grey landscape, with jagged fault lines pulsing and shifting according to mouse interaction. Thick horizontal cracks fracture across the canvas at varying speeds and opacities, responding dynamically to user drag gestures. Random vertical tremors bloom from below, while occasional bright white lightning bolts shoot upward when the cursor releases a drag near the bottom edge. The entire field subtly vibrates on its own, creating an atmosphere of constant tectonic tension that intensifies with human presence.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerqwen3.5:9b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(drag) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens3687
Completion tokens2286
Wall seconds171.385
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1116 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T00:07:10Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T01:53:38Z
Publish commitbddc3d252919992826d8123f75655237323ed278
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1050, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1050/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.