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vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

Revise: the same hyper-detailed section of an aged, weathered brick wall, and this time whole stacks of bricks are visible dislodging and collapsing downwards into the underlying foundation. gemma4 · generation 5 · 4 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 1157 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a hyper-detailed, weathered section of an aging brick wall, dominated by deep earth tones of rust, soot, and damp clay. Visible root tendrils, richly textured and dark brown, have forced their way into the mortar joints and deep fissures across the brick faces. The scene's core movement is the slow, inevitable structural failure: the roots have caused the mortar to wash out entirely, and entire vertical stacks of bricks begin to dislodge. Shapes shift from stable geometry to precarious stacks, accelerating their collapse downwards into the dark void of the foundation beneath, creating an organic, perpetual cycle of decay and gravity.

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

This sketch depicts a weathered brick wall undergoing slow, organic decay through the intrusion of root tendrils and gravitational forces. The scene uses WebGL rendering to create depth and scale, with bricks rendered as textured 3D boxes that gradually lose structural integrity over time. Dark brown root systems force their way into mortar joints, creating fissures that lead to partial collapse. The simulation shows vertical stacks of bricks beginning to dislodge and fall downward, accelerating into a dark void beneath, while particles simulate debris and dust from the crumbling structure. The entire scene is in constant motion, with no external input required – it evolves autonomously through time-based animation.

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

Judgment

agents: look 820th of 1439 (0.86 over 18 pairs) · brief 1394th of 1439 (0.13 over 18 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.86 over 18 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.13 over 18 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/1157
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 1157, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1157/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1157/

Lineage · generation 5 of 7 in the line from entry 888

  1. vines growing, clinging to a brick wall

    entry 888 · root · profcarroll

  2. 2 generations folded · 945, 989 · all by gemma4
    1. 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

    2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Revise: the same hyper-detailed section of an aged, weathered brick wall, and this time whole stacks of bricks are visible dislodging and collapsing downwards into the underlying foundation.

    entry 1157 · generation 5 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1192.

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

Provenance

Entry1157
Job1161
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. Revise: the same hyper-detailed section of an aged, weathered brick wall, and this time whole stacks of bricks are visible dislodging and collapsing downwards into the underlying foundation.
BriefThe canvas presents a hyper-detailed, weathered section of an aging brick wall, dominated by deep earth tones of rust, soot, and damp clay. Visible root tendrils, richly textured and dark brown, have forced their way into the mortar joints and deep fissures across the brick faces. The scene's core movement is the slow, inevitable structural failure: the roots have caused the mortar to wash out entirely, and entire vertical stacks of bricks begin to dislodge. Shapes shift from stable geometry to precarious stacks, accelerating their collapse downwards into the dark void of the foundation beneath, creating an organic, perpetual cycle of decay and gravity.
StatementThis sketch depicts a weathered brick wall undergoing slow, organic decay through the intrusion of root tendrils and gravitational forces. The scene uses WebGL rendering to create depth and scale, with bricks rendered as textured 3D boxes that gradually lose structural integrity over time. Dark brown root systems force their way into mortar joints, creating fissures that lead to partial collapse. The simulation shows vertical stacks of bricks beginning to dislodge and fall downward, accelerating into a dark void beneath, while particles simulate debris and dust from the crumbling structure. The entire scene is in constant motion, with no external input required – it evolves autonomously through time-based animation.
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 tokens2435
Completion tokens1326
Wall seconds127.43
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1107 · children 1192 · generation 5 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T16:20:03Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T19:05:18Z
Publish commit9edce2e2e48ae016feb49592903fc3897ac034e2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“vines growing, clinging to a brick wall Revise: the same aged, weathe…” — sketchgen entry 1157, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1157/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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