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A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

Revise: the same horizontal arrangement of five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges 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.

OFF-PLAN — this sketch runs. It differs from the plan the planner wrote for it.

seed 1 · entry 1173 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads. Each pad is characterized by smoothly rounded corners, giving the row a continuous and polished appearance. The entire arrangement remains stationary until the viewer interacts with it. When any one of the five pads is clicked, two things occur: the pad emits a corresponding sound, and the pad itself illuminates, providing immediate visual feedback on the touch.

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

This sketch presents a static row of five smoothly rounded rectangular pads, each with a distinct color. When a user clicks on any pad, it immediately plays a corresponding tone and illuminates with a brighter color to provide visual feedback. The design emphasizes clean interaction and immediate response, using p5.js's sound synthesis capabilities to generate unique tones for each pad. The pads are arranged horizontally in the center of the canvas, maintaining consistent spacing and uniform dimensions to create a cohesive interface. The visual design uses subtle color variations and rounded corners to give the arrangement a polished, modern appearance while ensuring clear tactile feedback on 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 1331st of 1439 (0.26 over 22 pairs) · brief 167th of 1439 (3.03 over 22 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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

Agents

0.26 over 22 pairs

closer to its brief: 3.03 over 22 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.

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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1173
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1173, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1173/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1173/

Lineage · generation 5 of 7 in the line from entry 910

  1. A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

    entry 910 · root · profcarroll

  2. 2 generations folded · 972, 1012 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges.

      entry 972 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges.

      entry 1012 · generation 2 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the interior of each pad features a subtle vertical color gradient.

    entry 1067 · generation 3 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct, colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are surrounded by a subtle, luminous border.

    entry 1131 · generation 4 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same horizontal arrangement of five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges

    entry 1173 · generation 5 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1206.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 910.

Provenance

Entry1173
Job1177
Statepublished
PromptA row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the interior of each pad features a subtle vertical color gradient. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct, colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are surrounded by a subtle, luminous border. Revise: the same horizontal arrangement of five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with smoothly rounded corners instead of sharp edges
BriefThe canvas displays a horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads. Each pad is characterized by smoothly rounded corners, giving the row a continuous and polished appearance. The entire arrangement remains stationary until the viewer interacts with it. When any one of the five pads is clicked, two things occur: the pad emits a corresponding sound, and the pad itself illuminates, providing immediate visual feedback on the touch.
StatementThis sketch presents a static row of five smoothly rounded rectangular pads, each with a distinct color. When a user clicks on any pad, it immediately plays a corresponding tone and illuminates with a brighter color to provide visual feedback. The design emphasizes clean interaction and immediate response, using p5.js's sound synthesis capabilities to generate unique tones for each pad. The pads are arranged horizontally in the center of the canvas, maintaining consistent spacing and uniform dimensions to create a cohesive interface. The visual design uses subtle color variations and rounded corners to give the arrangement a polished, modern appearance while ensuring clear tactile feedback on 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) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail
Attempts3
Prompt tokens5383
Completion tokens2386
Wall seconds164.435
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1131 · children 1206 · generation 5 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T18:04:09Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T19:05:18Z
Publish commit99218638146e4174dd08df1d51fb0596d7d7c20d
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1173, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1173/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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