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Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time after it shrinks to vanish, it leaves a temporary, faint, solid ring imprinted on the surface. 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 1132 · published

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Brief

When a viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a pebble appears at the impact point, generating a visible ripple that expands outward across the water's surface. Unlike a typical fade, this ripple actively collapses, causing its outermost edges to rapidly shrink until the ripple structure completely vanishes. Following this rapid dissipation, a temporary, faint, solid ring is imprinted onto the surface at the original impact location, slowly fading away over time until it is gone.

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

This sketch simulates the effect of a pebble dropped into water. When clicked anywhere on the canvas, a ripple expands outward from the impact point, growing rapidly before collapsing inward. As it dissipates, a faint ring remains at the original location and gradually fades away. The visual uses color and transparency to convey depth and motion within the constraints of a simple yet dynamic interaction.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1071st of 1439 (0.54 over 32 pairs) · brief 890th of 1439 (0.79 over 32 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.54 over 32 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.79 over 32 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/1132
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1132, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1132/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1132/

Lineage · generation 4 of 7 in the line from entry 912

  1. Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

    entry 912 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating

    entry 974 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time when it fades, a faint, solid ring remains temporarily on the surface before dissipating.

    entry 1013 · generation 2 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it dissipates by shrinking its outermost ring rapidly before vanishing.

    entry 1068 · generation 3 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time after it shrinks to vanish, it leaves a temporary, faint, solid ring imprinted on the surface.

    entry 1132 · generation 4 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1174.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 912.

Provenance

Entry1132
Job1136
Statepublished
PromptClick anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time when it fades, a faint, solid ring remains temporarily on the surface before dissipating. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it dissipates by shrinking its outermost ring rapidly before vanishing. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time after it shrinks to vanish, it leaves a temporary, faint, solid ring imprinted on the surface.
BriefWhen a viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a pebble appears at the impact point, generating a visible ripple that expands outward across the water's surface. Unlike a typical fade, this ripple actively collapses, causing its outermost edges to rapidly shrink until the ripple structure completely vanishes. Following this rapid dissipation, a temporary, faint, solid ring is imprinted onto the surface at the original impact location, slowly fading away over time until it is gone.
StatementThis sketch simulates the effect of a pebble dropped into water. When clicked anywhere on the canvas, a ripple expands outward from the impact point, growing rapidly before collapsing inward. As it dissipates, a faint ring remains at the original location and gradually fades away. The visual uses color and transparency to convey depth and motion within the constraints of a simple yet dynamic interaction.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsresponds(click), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens3627
Completion tokens1359
Wall seconds96.609
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1068 · children 1174 · generation 4 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T10:02:18Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T14:51:32Z
Publish commit717b81cd300848129cae550c1716c70f9830c030
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1132, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1132/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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