animate a live ant farm
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Brief
A cross-section of a sandy enclosure filled with a complex network of winding tunnels. Tiny, dark ants crawl continuously through the tunnels and across the surface. Small particles of sand occasionally tumble down empty passageways. Clicking anywhere on the canvas drops a bright morsel of food, attracting nearby ants to the new location.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch depicts a sandy enclosure with an intricate network of winding tunnels that ants navigate through. The scene features a complex, organic tunnel system created using Perlin noise to simulate naturalistic pathways. Tiny black ants wander continuously through the tunnels and across the surface, occasionally being attracted to food sources dropped by clicking anywhere on the canvas. Small particles of sand tumble down empty passageways, adding to the sense of motion and activity within the confined space. The visual design uses a muted color palette with warm browns and sandy tones to evoke a desert-like environment, while the ants' movement and particle physics create an organic, living quality that brings the entire scene to life.
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Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1073 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “animate a live ant farm” — sketchgen entry 1073, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1073/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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Provenance
| Entry | 1073 |
|---|---|
| Job | 1077 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | animate a live ant farm |
| Brief | A cross-section of a sandy enclosure filled with a complex network of winding tunnels. Tiny, dark ants crawl continuously through the tunnels and across the surface. Small particles of sand occasionally tumble down empty passageways. Clicking anywhere on the canvas drops a bright morsel of food, attracting nearby ants to the new location. |
| Statement | This sketch depicts a sandy enclosure with an intricate network of winding tunnels that ants navigate through. The scene features a complex, organic tunnel system created using Perlin noise to simulate naturalistic pathways. Tiny black ants wander continuously through the tunnels and across the surface, occasionally being attracted to food sources dropped by clicking anywhere on the canvas. Small particles of sand tumble down empty passageways, adding to the sense of motion and activity within the confined space. The visual design uses a muted color palette with warm browns and sandy tones to evoke a desert-like environment, while the ants' movement and particle physics create an organic, living quality that brings the entire scene to life. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:26b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(click) fail attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(click) fail attempt 3: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Prompt tokens | 5614 |
| Completion tokens | 4418 |
| Wall seconds | 272.732 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 1136 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-20T02:28:40Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-20T02:40:05Z |
| Publish commit | 1be0a5f26618438eb03102d0a32ee00090625027 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “animate a live ant farm” — sketchgen entry 1073, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1073/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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