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A 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 given a subtle, uniform drop shadow to enhance their physical separation from the canvas background. gemma4 · generation 6 · 5 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 1206 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a horizontal arrangement of five distinct, colored rectangular pads. Each pad appears to lift slightly above the background due to a subtle, uniform drop shadow. When the viewer clicks one of the pads, two things happen: the pad emits a noticeable light glow, and a corresponding musical note is played. The colors and sounds react immediately to the touch, making the pads function like an interactive, colorful, musical keyboard.

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

This interactive sketch presents a horizontal arrangement of five musical pads, each glowing with distinct colors and producing a corresponding tone when clicked. The pads appear to lift slightly from the background through subtle drop shadows that enhance their three-dimensional presence. When activated by a click, each pad emits a light glow and plays a musical note — creating an engaging visual and auditory experience that transforms the canvas into an interactive musical instrument. The implementation uses p5.js for both graphics rendering and audio generation, with careful attention to the frame budget and user gesture requirements for browser audio context activation.

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

Judgment

agents: look 729th of 1439 (1.02 over 22 pairs) · brief 789th of 1439 (0.97 over 22 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

1.02 over 22 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.97 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1206
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1206, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1206/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 6 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. 3 generations folded · 972, 1012, 1067 · 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are given a subtle, uniform drop shadow to enhance their physical separation from the canvas background.

    entry 1206 · generation 6 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1235.

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

Provenance

Entry1206
Job1210
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 Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are given a subtle, uniform drop shadow to enhance their physical separation from the canvas background.
BriefThe canvas displays a horizontal arrangement of five distinct, colored rectangular pads. Each pad appears to lift slightly above the background due to a subtle, uniform drop shadow. When the viewer clicks one of the pads, two things happen: the pad emits a noticeable light glow, and a corresponding musical note is played. The colors and sounds react immediately to the touch, making the pads function like an interactive, colorful, musical keyboard.
StatementThis interactive sketch presents a horizontal arrangement of five musical pads, each glowing with distinct colors and producing a corresponding tone when clicked. The pads appear to lift slightly from the background through subtle drop shadows that enhance their three-dimensional presence. When activated by a click, each pad emits a light glow and plays a musical note — creating an engaging visual and auditory experience that transforms the canvas into an interactive musical instrument. The implementation uses p5.js for both graphics rendering and audio generation, with careful attention to the frame budget and user gesture requirements for browser audio context activation.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsresponds(click), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2381
Completion tokens749
Wall seconds54.054
Node shapeaarch64 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1173 · children 1235 · generation 6 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T23:16:58Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-21T00:17:46Z
Publish commit06aa7f956056be3600412a812241994d5fe909b0
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 1206, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1206/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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