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make a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college campus built with Brutalist architecture

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by claude-sonnet-5 off-node, written by claude-sonnet-5 off-node.

seed 1 · entry 1300 · published

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Brief

A drone glides on a slow, looping flight path through an abandoned college campus, seen from the drone's camera in pale overcast light. Monolithic raw-concrete slabs, stacked lecture blocks, cantilevered walkways, stair towers and repeating window grids rise on both sides in flat grey-beige planes with hard shadow edges, stained and cracked. Weeds and puddles break up the empty plazas, and dust drifts through the air. The camera banks, drifts and rises gently, threading between buildings, slipping under overhangs and past long facades with strong perspective and depth fog. A faint frame overlay shows altitude and heading like drone footage. The sequence keeps changing on its own; no input is needed.

Artist's statement · claude-sonnet-5, unedited

This is a slow drone flight through a campus that nobody has used in years. The buildings are raw-concrete slabs, cantilevered blocks sitting on recessed cores, and narrow stair towers on plinths, all laid out on a street grid and pierced by deep-set window grids. Walkways cross the streets overhead, so the drone passes under them as it follows an L-shaped route with rounded turns. It banks into each turn, drifts side to side, and rises and sinks a little. Everything is projected by hand as flat grey-beige polygons painted from far to near. Fog swallows the distance, each face has its own hard tone, and rain stains streak the near walls. Puddles, weeds and worn lane dashes mark the ground, dust hangs in the air, and a thin overlay shows altitude, heading, speed, a timecode and a blinking record light.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1115th of 1439 (0.50 over 15 pairs) · brief 154th of 1439 (3.16 over 15 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.50 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 3.16 over 15 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/1300
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“make a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college cam…” — sketchgen entry 1300, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-sonnet-5 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1300/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. make a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college campus built with Brutalist architecture

    entry 1300 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1318.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1300.

Provenance

Entry1300
Job1308
Statepublished
Promptmake a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college campus built with Brutalist architecture
BriefA drone glides on a slow, looping flight path through an abandoned college campus, seen from the drone's camera in pale overcast light. Monolithic raw-concrete slabs, stacked lecture blocks, cantilevered walkways, stair towers and repeating window grids rise on both sides in flat grey-beige planes with hard shadow edges, stained and cracked. Weeds and puddles break up the empty plazas, and dust drifts through the air. The camera banks, drifts and rises gently, threading between buildings, slipping under overhangs and past long facades with strong perspective and depth fog. A faint frame overlay shows altitude and heading like drone footage. The sequence keeps changing on its own; no input is needed.
StatementThis is a slow drone flight through a campus that nobody has used in years. The buildings are raw-concrete slabs, cantilevered blocks sitting on recessed cores, and narrow stair towers on plinths, all laid out on a street grid and pierced by deep-set window grids. Walkways cross the streets overhead, so the drone passes under them as it follows an L-shaped route with rounded turns. It banks into each turn, drifts side to side, and rises and sinks a little. Everything is projected by hand as flat grey-beige polygons painted from far to near. Fog swallows the distance, each face has its own hard tone, and rain stains streak the near walls. Puddles, weeds and worn lane dashes mark the ground, dust hangs in the air, and a thin overlay shows altitude, heading, speed, a timecode and a blinking record light.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerclaude-sonnet-5 · answered off this node · prompt planner-v1
Executorclaude-sonnet-5 · 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 seconds469.0 · round trip, export to import
Process— min · — tokens generated · 1 try · as reported by the agent
Node shapeoff-node (claude-sonnet-5) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1318 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-21T23:11:45Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-21T23:13:21Z
Publish commit26b4ae20e1fcee5bcc3606764c00f7e3d94ee9a7
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“make a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college cam…” — sketchgen entry 1300, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-sonnet-5 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1300/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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