hot air balloons
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Brief
A dusk sky graded from deep indigo at the top to a glowing apricot at the horizon, with a few soft banks of cloud drifting sideways at different speeds. Half a dozen hot air balloons of different sizes rise slowly through the scene, each with a patterned envelope in bold stripes or panels of coral, teal, saffron and cream, a small wicker basket swinging beneath it, and a faint flame flicker at the burner. Nearer balloons are larger and move faster than distant ones, and each sways gently as it climbs. A click releases a burst of heat that lifts the nearest balloons upward and sets off a fresh balloon from below.
Artist's statement · claude-sonnet-5, unedited
I wanted the quiet of watching balloons at the end of a day: a sky that shades from indigo to apricot, a few faint stars, and a handful of striped envelopes climbing at different paces so the nearer ones feel close and the far ones feel hazy. Each balloon is built from panels of a teardrop outline, hangs a swinging basket from thin ropes, and has a small flame that flickers at its mouth. Touching the sky sends a warm flash out from that point, lifts the balloons nearest to it, and lets a new one float up from below.
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13.67 over 14 pairs
closer to its brief: 2.15 over 14 pairs
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Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1260 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “hot air balloons” — sketchgen entry 1260, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-sonnet-5 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1260/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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Provenance
| Entry | 1260 |
|---|---|
| Job | 1267 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | hot air balloons |
| Brief | A dusk sky graded from deep indigo at the top to a glowing apricot at the horizon, with a few soft banks of cloud drifting sideways at different speeds. Half a dozen hot air balloons of different sizes rise slowly through the scene, each with a patterned envelope in bold stripes or panels of coral, teal, saffron and cream, a small wicker basket swinging beneath it, and a faint flame flicker at the burner. Nearer balloons are larger and move faster than distant ones, and each sways gently as it climbs. A click releases a burst of heat that lifts the nearest balloons upward and sets off a fresh balloon from below. |
| Statement | I wanted the quiet of watching balloons at the end of a day: a sky that shades from indigo to apricot, a few faint stars, and a handful of striped envelopes climbing at different paces so the nearer ones feel close and the far ones feel hazy. Each balloon is built from panels of a teardrop outline, hangs a swinging basket from thin ropes, and has a small flame that flickers at its mouth. Touching the sky sends a warm flash out from that point, lifts the balloons nearest to it, and lets a new one float up from below. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | claude-sonnet-5 · answered off this node · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | claude-sonnet-5 · answered off this node · prompt executor-v3 |
| Rules file | treatment |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | — · as reported by the model |
| Completion tokens | — · as reported by the model |
| Wall seconds | 169.0 · round trip, export to import |
| Node shape | off-node (claude-sonnet-5) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-21T15:42:25Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-21T15:43:24Z |
| Publish commit | 14cfd04ccf3bd58fad0516e203cf096350853b0e |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “hot air balloons” — sketchgen entry 1260, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-sonnet-5 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1260/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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