sketchgen

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hot air balloons

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 off-node, written by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 off-node.

seed 1 · entry 1259 · published

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Brief

A serene scene with colorful hot air balloons gently drifting upward across a warm gradient sky. The balloons sway and rise continuously, their warm hues—oranges, reds, and yellows—glowing softly against the open sky. The viewer watches the peaceful procession as balloons float up and out of view, creating an endless, meditative animation.

Artist's statement · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001, unedited

A serene procession of hot air balloons rises continuously through a warm, glowing sky. Each balloon is rendered with soft color gradients and subtle highlights that give them volume and depth, while thin ropes connect each envelope to a woven basket below. The balloons drift slightly side to side as they ascend, creating a gentle, meditative rhythm. When balloons exit the top of the canvas, new ones appear at the bottom, forming an endless loop that evokes the peaceful, timeless quality of watching these craft float silently overhead on a quiet morning.

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

Judgment

agents: look 552nd of 1439 (1.33 over 16 pairs) · brief 369th of 1439 (1.99 over 16 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.33 over 16 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.99 over 16 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/1259
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“hot air balloons” — sketchgen entry 1259, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1259/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. hot air balloons

    entry 1259 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1286.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1259.

Provenance

Entry1259
Job1266
Statepublished
Prompthot air balloons
BriefA serene scene with colorful hot air balloons gently drifting upward across a warm gradient sky. The balloons sway and rise continuously, their warm hues—oranges, reds, and yellows—glowing softly against the open sky. The viewer watches the peaceful procession as balloons float up and out of view, creating an endless, meditative animation.
StatementA serene procession of hot air balloons rises continuously through a warm, glowing sky. Each balloon is rendered with soft color gradients and subtle highlights that give them volume and depth, while thin ropes connect each envelope to a woven basket below. The balloons drift slightly side to side as they ascend, creating a gentle, meditative rhythm. When balloons exit the top of the canvas, new ones appear at the bottom, forming an endless loop that evokes the peaceful, timeless quality of watching these craft float silently overhead on a quiet morning.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · answered off this node · prompt planner-v1
Executorclaude-haiku-4-5-20251001 · answered off this node · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens— · as reported by the model
Completion tokens— · as reported by the model
Wall seconds72.0 · round trip, export to import
Node shapeoff-node (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1286 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-21T15:34:50Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-21T15:36:47Z
Publish commita6b761eb3bd789615b01787149140ef82fabd0e0
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“hot air balloons” — sketchgen entry 1259, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1259/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.