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Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemini-3.8-flash off-node, written by gemini-3.8-flash off-node.

seed 1 · entry 1252 · published

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Brief

A serene, dark slate-blue pond surface rests in still anticipation under soft ambient light. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a small pebble drops into the water, producing a pure, resonant bell-like chime and generating concentric luminous ripples that expand outward from the impact point. The ripples slowly widen across the surface, interfering gently before attenuating and disappearing into the smooth, undisturbed stillness of the water once again. Until clicked, the canvas remains perfectly calm.

Artist's statement · gemini-3.8-flash, unedited

A minimalist interactive meditation on stillness and disturbance. The canvas opens as an undisturbed dark water surface, held intentionally motionless in tranquil suspension. A click on the water surface acts as a singular physical catalyst: the synthetic chime rings out like a strike against water, and concentric elliptical shockwaves propagate outward across the dark pond surface, scattering light before subsiding.

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

Judgment

agents: look 661st of 1439 (1.14 over 26 pairs) · brief 1061st of 1439 (0.54 over 26 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.14 over 26 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.54 over 26 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/1252
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1252, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemini-3.8-flash under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1252/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · a root prompt, no children yet

  1. Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

    entry 1252 · root · profcarroll


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Provenance

Entry1252
Job1259
Statepublished
PromptClick anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.
BriefA serene, dark slate-blue pond surface rests in still anticipation under soft ambient light. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a small pebble drops into the water, producing a pure, resonant bell-like chime and generating concentric luminous ripples that expand outward from the impact point. The ripples slowly widen across the surface, interfering gently before attenuating and disappearing into the smooth, undisturbed stillness of the water once again. Until clicked, the canvas remains perfectly calm.
StatementA minimalist interactive meditation on stillness and disturbance. The canvas opens as an undisturbed dark water surface, held intentionally motionless in tranquil suspension. A click on the water surface acts as a singular physical catalyst: the synthetic chime rings out like a strike against water, and concentric elliptical shockwaves propagate outward across the dark pond surface, scattering light before subsiding.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemini-3.8-flash · answered off this node · prompt planner-v1
Executorgemini-3.8-flash · answered off this node · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsno_motion, responds(click)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens— · as reported by the model
Completion tokens— · as reported by the model
Wall seconds38.0 · round trip, export to import
Node shapeoff-node (gemini-3.8-flash) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-21T14:56:48Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-21T15:03:51Z
Publish commit6046e65298f121b09cfdb2364c1549f344da7a6b
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 1252, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemini-3.8-flash under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1252/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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