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race day at laguna seca

Revise: the same winding grey ribbon of asphalt, and this time the racing cars have detailed, varied vehicle shapes. gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 1152 · published

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Brief

A winding grey ribbon of asphalt snakes across a lush green landscape from a top-down perspective. Various racing cars with distinct, detailed shapes and bright colors speed along the track at varying velocities. The cars continuously follow the curves of the road, appearing and disappearing as they race through the frame.

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

I created a scrolling view of racing cars on a winding asphalt road using isometric 2D graphics. The road snakes through the landscape using cubic Bézier curves with randomly generated control points, creating natural turns and varying curvature. Cars are rendered as colorful shapes with motion trails that show their path and speed. I used perspective scaling based on vertical screen position to simulate depth—cars lower on screen appear larger. The track is drawn with width by offsetting vertices along perpendicular tangents to the path. Each car has distinct colors and sizes, moving at different speeds along the parameterized curve.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1112th of 1439 (0.51 over 22 pairs) · brief 1361st of 1439 (0.17 over 22 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.51 over 22 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.17 over 22 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1152
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“race day at laguna seca Revise: the same winding grey ribbon of aspha…” — sketchgen entry 1152, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1152/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 3 in the line from entry 1094

  1. race day at laguna seca

    entry 1094 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same winding grey ribbon of asphalt, and this time the racing cars have detailed, varied vehicle shapes.

    entry 1152 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1187.

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Provenance

Entry1152
Job1156
Statepublished
Promptrace day at laguna seca Revise: the same winding grey ribbon of asphalt, and this time the racing cars have detailed, varied vehicle shapes.
BriefA winding grey ribbon of asphalt snakes across a lush green landscape from a top-down perspective. Various racing cars with distinct, detailed shapes and bright colors speed along the track at varying velocities. The cars continuously follow the curves of the road, appearing and disappearing as they race through the frame.
StatementI created a scrolling view of racing cars on a winding asphalt road using isometric 2D graphics. The road snakes through the landscape using cubic Bézier curves with randomly generated control points, creating natural turns and varying curvature. Cars are rendered as colorful shapes with motion trails that show their path and speed. I used perspective scaling based on vertical screen position to simulate depth—cars lower on screen appear larger. The track is drawn with width by offsetting vertices along perpendicular tangents to the path. Each car has distinct colors and sizes, moving at different speeds along the parameterized curve.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v1
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit not run
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens4761
Completion tokens3812
Wall seconds267.176
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1094 · children 1187 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T15:39:10Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T19:05:18Z
Publish commitb9ae4f95aa28ecfa0bfaf47fc4c6411bff152b51
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“race day at laguna seca Revise: the same winding grey ribbon of aspha…” — sketchgen entry 1152, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1152/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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