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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 it expands outward in a distinctly branching, asymmetrical pattern. 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.

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

seed 1 · entry 1207 · published

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Brief

When the user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a soft, chiming tone sounds. Simultaneously, a visible, concentric ripple appears, radiating outward from the point of impact. This ripple expands into a defined shockwave that moves across the surface. After the shockwave completes its outward motion and fades entirely, a temporary, faint, solid ring is imprinted on the canvas surface, which then gradually dissipates.

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

This sketch creates a visual and auditory response to user interaction by generating concentric ripple effects that emanate from the point of impact. When clicked, the canvas produces a soft chime tone accompanied by three distinct visual elements: an expanding ripple, a fading shockwave, and a temporary solid ring that gradually dissipates. The technique uses layered transparency and motion to create depth and temporal complexity in the visual response, with each element having its own speed of expansion and rate of fade. The audio is triggered only on the first user gesture to comply with browser security requirements for audio initialization.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1203rd of 1439 (0.41 over 23 pairs) · brief 1234th of 1439 (0.33 over 23 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

0.41 over 23 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.33 over 23 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/1207
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1207, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1207/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1207/

Lineage · generation 6 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. 3 generations folded · 974, 1013, 1068 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating

      entry 974 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. 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

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

      entry 1068 · generation 3 · gemma4

  3. 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

  4. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time immediately after the collapse, a single, concentric shockwave radiates outward from the center before the remaining ring fades.

    entry 1174 · generation 5 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it expands outward in a distinctly branching, asymmetrical pattern.

    entry 1207 · generation 6 · gemma4


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

Provenance

Entry1207
Job1211
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. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time immediately after the collapse, a single, concentric shockwave radiates outward from the center before the remaining ring fades. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it expands outward in a distinctly branching, asymmetrical pattern.
BriefWhen the user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a soft, chiming tone sounds. Simultaneously, a visible, concentric ripple appears, radiating outward from the point of impact. This ripple expands into a defined shockwave that moves across the surface. After the shockwave completes its outward motion and fades entirely, a temporary, faint, solid ring is imprinted on the canvas surface, which then gradually dissipates.
StatementThis sketch creates a visual and auditory response to user interaction by generating concentric ripple effects that emanate from the point of impact. When clicked, the canvas produces a soft chime tone accompanied by three distinct visual elements: an expanding ripple, a fading shockwave, and a temporary solid ring that gradually dissipates. The technique uses layered transparency and motion to create depth and temporal complexity in the visual response, with each element having its own speed of expansion and rate of fade. The audio is triggered only on the first user gesture to comply with browser security requirements for audio initialization.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsresponds(click), responds(audio), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) fail
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) pass
Attempts3
Prompt tokens7730
Completion tokens2911
Wall seconds209.251
Node shapeaarch64 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1174 · children none · generation 6 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T23:24:29Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-21T00:17:46Z
Publish commitcc3d0c07bf9fe38af77bc3a5a19a1e9762acd70d
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1207, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1207/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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