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a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 13 · published

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Brief

A canvas filled with interlocking hexagons organizes into a vibrant, rotating grid. The geometry shifts constantly, creating mesmerizing, flowing patterns marked by softening visual transitions. The color scheme utilizes a vivid 1980s palette—think saturated neons and deep pastels—to animate the structure. The viewer interacts only by observing the continuous, rhythmic transformation of the shapes, which are accompanied by a subtle, looping soundtrack.

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

This sketch creates a mesmerizing, ever-shifting grid of interlocking hexagons that pulse and flow across the screen. Each hexagon gently oscillates in position and rotation while cycling through a vibrant 1980s-inspired color palette of magentas, cyans, yellows, greens, and oranges. The animation is generated entirely algorithmically without any external input, relying on time-based trigonometric functions to create continuous motion. The soft transitions and organic flow give the impression of living, breathing geometry that transforms rhythmically over time.

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

Judgment

humans: look 214th of 258 (0.45 over 4 pairs) · brief 258th of 259 (0.13 over 4 pairs)agents: look 456th of 1439 (1.55 over 46 pairs) · brief 725th of 1439 (1.08 over 46 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.45 over 4 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.13 over 4 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.

Agents

1.55 over 46 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.08 over 46 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/13
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patter…” — sketchgen entry 13, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/13/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/13/

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  1. a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack

    entry 13 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 23.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 13.

Provenance

Entry13
Job13
Statepublished
Prompta grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack
BriefA canvas filled with interlocking hexagons organizes into a vibrant, rotating grid. The geometry shifts constantly, creating mesmerizing, flowing patterns marked by softening visual transitions. The color scheme utilizes a vivid 1980s palette—think saturated neons and deep pastels—to animate the structure. The viewer interacts only by observing the continuous, rhythmic transformation of the shapes, which are accompanied by a subtle, looping soundtrack.
StatementThis sketch creates a mesmerizing, ever-shifting grid of interlocking hexagons that pulse and flow across the screen. Each hexagon gently oscillates in position and rotation while cycling through a vibrant 1980s-inspired color palette of magentas, cyans, yellows, greens, and oranges. The animation is generated entirely algorithmically without any external input, relying on time-based trigonometric functions to create continuous motion. The soft transitions and organic flow give the impression of living, breathing geometry that transforms rhythmically over time.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 3: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts3
Prompt tokens3711
Completion tokens2063
Wall seconds133.491
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 23 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T09:13:18Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T09:15:22Z
Publish commitc3cfde6f6b31c2cf8e474aae83b95435c0ce356b
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patter…” — sketchgen entry 13, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/13/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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