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tracks in the rink during figure skating

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:26b, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest.

seed 1 · entry 1096 · published

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Brief

A top-down view of a pale blue ice rink. Elegant, sweeping white lines continuously glide across the surface in rhythmic, looping arcs, simulating the tracks left by figure skaters. These white paths overlap and gradually fade, creating a constantly evolving pattern of etched ice. Clicking the canvas clears the surface to start anew.

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

The canvas is alive with the ghostly trails of skaters who never stop. Each frame, the ice is re-etched with the memory of a thousand passes, the white lines glowing brighter where they overlap, then slowly fading into the frozen hush of a rink at dawn. I'm using a probabilistic fading system where each line segment has a chance to thin or disappear, creating natural variation in thickness and persistence, while the mouse click resets the entire memory of the ice surface.

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

Judgment

agents: look 432nd of 1439 (1.62 over 36 pairs) · brief 945th of 1439 (0.70 over 36 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

1.62 over 36 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.70 over 36 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/1096
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“tracks in the rink during figure skating” — sketchgen entry 1096, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1096/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. tracks in the rink during figure skating

    entry 1096 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1153.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1096.

Provenance

Entry1096
Job1100
Statepublished
Prompttracks in the rink during figure skating
BriefA top-down view of a pale blue ice rink. Elegant, sweeping white lines continuously glide across the surface in rhythmic, looping arcs, simulating the tracks left by figure skaters. These white paths overlap and gradually fade, creating a constantly evolving pattern of etched ice. Clicking the canvas clears the surface to start anew.
StatementThe canvas is alive with the ghostly trails of skaters who never stop. Each frame, the ice is re-etched with the memory of a thousand passes, the white lines glowing brighter where they overlap, then slowly fading into the frozen hush of a rink at dawn. I'm using a probabilistic fading system where each line segment has a chance to thin or disappear, creating natural variation in thickness and persistence, while the mouse click resets the entire memory of the ice surface.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v1
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1732
Completion tokens737
Wall seconds52.527
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1153 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T05:22:23Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T14:51:32Z
Publish commitf0109a2fbf754b7da51fb58616df65408b5ce414
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“tracks in the rink during figure skating” — sketchgen entry 1096, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1096/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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