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luminescent crystals forming in a stalactite cave

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

seed 1 · entry 1054 · published

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Brief

Luminescent crystals grow from the cave ceiling downward toward a dark floor while faint particles drift through the air. Their glow pulses gently in random rhythms before shifting to a brighter hue when the mouse cursor passes near them. Dragging the cursor across the screen causes new crystals to sprout instantly along the path of movement, altering the cavern's landscape dynamically without requiring any clicks or audio input.

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

I created an immersive cavern scene where luminescent crystals grow from the ceiling and drift particles fill the air. The effect uses batched point rendering and a spatial hash pattern to maintain performance while creating thousands of visual elements. Crystals pulse gently with organic rhythms that intensify when the cursor approaches, and dragging creates new crystals along the path to dynamically reshape the underground landscape.

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

Judgment

agents: look 671st of 1439 (1.11 over 22 pairs) · brief 1266th of 1439 (0.28 over 22 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

1.11 over 22 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.28 over 22 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/1054
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“luminescent crystals forming in a stalactite cave” — sketchgen entry 1054, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1054/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Provenance

Entry1054
Job1057
Statepublished
Promptluminescent crystals forming in a stalactite cave
BriefLuminescent crystals grow from the cave ceiling downward toward a dark floor while faint particles drift through the air. Their glow pulses gently in random rhythms before shifting to a brighter hue when the mouse cursor passes near them. Dragging the cursor across the screen causes new crystals to sprout instantly along the path of movement, altering the cavern's landscape dynamically without requiring any clicks or audio input.
StatementI created an immersive cavern scene where luminescent crystals grow from the ceiling and drift particles fill the air. The effect uses batched point rendering and a spatial hash pattern to maintain performance while creating thousands of visual elements. Crystals pulse gently with organic rhythms that intensify when the cursor approaches, and dragging creates new crystals along the path to dynamically reshape the underground landscape.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerqwen3.5:9b · prompt planner-v1
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2407
Completion tokens1589
Wall seconds140.524
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T00:29:05Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T02:40:05Z
Publish commita28f5ff96f9b7526d8464eff10e27a08f7d409a2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“luminescent crystals forming in a stalactite cave” — sketchgen entry 1054, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1054/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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