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vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

Revise: the same highly detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the roots cause the mortar joints to completely wash out and the individual bricks to begin tilting and shifting. gemma4 · generation 4 · 3 earlier revisions in the lineage below

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 1107 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a hyper-detailed section of an aged, weathered brick wall. The color palette is restricted to deep earthen tones, grays, and faded reds, suggesting decades of neglect. The primary focus is the slow, inexorable decay, driven by thick root tendrils that penetrate the mortar joints and crevices. These roots are shown forcing massive fissures across the face of the bricks, and where they make contact, the material is actively eroding and spalling off. Over time, the individual brick structures become unstable, causing them to gradually tilt and shift away from their original alignment, creating a constant visual sense of structural collapse and vegetal encroachment.

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

This sketch depicts a weathered brick wall in a state of gradual decay, where thick root tendrils slowly penetrate the mortar joints and cause structural damage. The scene uses a limited earthen color palette dominated by deep reds, browns, and grays to evoke a sense of neglect and age. Bricks are rendered as 3D objects that gradually tilt and shift due to the persistent pressure from growing roots. Spalling particles break off the bricks over time, creating an active erosion effect. The roots themselves appear as organic tendrils that grow and branch through the wall structure, forcing cracks and fissures in the masonry. The entire composition creates a sense of slow, inevitable collapse under the force of nature reclaiming man-made structures.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1321st of 1439 (0.27 over 20 pairs) · brief 1356th of 1439 (0.18 over 20 pairs)
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0.27 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.18 over 20 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1107
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“vines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathe…” — sketchgen entry 1107, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1107/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1107/

Lineage · generation 4 of 7 in the line from entry 888

  1. vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

    entry 888 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same aged, weathered brick wall forming the backdrop, and this time the mortar lines are visibly crumbling and being infiltrated by root tendrils.

    entry 945 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the surface of the bricks are actively eroding and spalling where the root tendrils make contact.

    entry 989 · generation 2 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same densely detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time visible root tendrils are forcing major fissures across the brick faces, causing larger sections to shear off.

    entry 1040 · generation 3 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same highly detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the roots cause the mortar joints to completely wash out and the individual bricks to begin tilting and shifting.

    entry 1107 · generation 4 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1157.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 888.

Provenance

Entry1107
Job1111
Statepublished
Promptvines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathered brick wall forming the backdrop, and this time the mortar lines are visibly crumbling and being infiltrated by root tendrils. Revise: the same detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the surface of the bricks are actively eroding and spalling where the root tendrils make contact. Revise: the same densely detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time visible root tendrils are forcing major fissures across the brick faces, causing larger sections to shear off. Revise: the same highly detailed, weathered brick wall, and this time the roots cause the mortar joints to completely wash out and the individual bricks to begin tilting and shifting.
BriefThe canvas presents a hyper-detailed section of an aged, weathered brick wall. The color palette is restricted to deep earthen tones, grays, and faded reds, suggesting decades of neglect. The primary focus is the slow, inexorable decay, driven by thick root tendrils that penetrate the mortar joints and crevices. These roots are shown forcing massive fissures across the face of the bricks, and where they make contact, the material is actively eroding and spalling off. Over time, the individual brick structures become unstable, causing them to gradually tilt and shift away from their original alignment, creating a constant visual sense of structural collapse and vegetal encroachment.
StatementThis sketch depicts a weathered brick wall in a state of gradual decay, where thick root tendrils slowly penetrate the mortar joints and cause structural damage. The scene uses a limited earthen color palette dominated by deep reds, browns, and grays to evoke a sense of neglect and age. Bricks are rendered as 3D objects that gradually tilt and shift due to the persistent pressure from growing roots. Spalling particles break off the bricks over time, creating an active erosion effect. The roots themselves appear as organic tendrils that grow and branch through the wall structure, forcing cracks and fissures in the masonry. The entire composition creates a sense of slow, inevitable collapse under the force of nature reclaiming man-made structures.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2443
Completion tokens1509
Wall seconds98.346
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1040 · children 1157 · generation 4 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T07:17:36Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T14:51:32Z
Publish commiteeaf06cb26cf742602427405ea55d3a1bb39c499
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“vines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathe…” — sketchgen entry 1107, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1107/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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