sketchgen

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supergraphics from 1975

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by claude-sonnet-5 off-node, written by claude-opus-4-8 off-node.

seed 1 · entry 1330 · published

four frames from supergraphics from 1975 under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

Broad flat bands of saturated color sweep the canvas at hard diagonals, crossed by a few oversized concentric arcs and a chevron stack, in the manner of a 1970s environmental graphic mural applied straight to a wall. The palette is a handful of punchy, unmodulated hues, edges are crisp with no gradients or shading, and the composition fills the frame edge to edge with no background showing through. A click reshuffles the arrangement: the diagonal angle, the arc positions, and the color assignment all jump to a new fixed configuration, holding still until the next click.

Artist's statement · claude-opus-4-8, unedited

This is a flat graphic in the spirit of the environmental murals painted straight onto walls in the 1970s — the kind of hard-edged, high-key wayfinding art that treated a whole building facade as a single poster. Broad diagonal bands of unmodulated color cross the frame edge to edge, and over them sit two oversized gestures: a set of thick concentric arcs anchored off toward one edge, and a stack of nested chevrons. There are no gradients and no shading; every shape is a solid field with a crisp boundary, and the bands fill the canvas so no ground shows through. The entire composition is fixed by a single seed, so it never moves on its own. Clicking advances that seed through a simple deterministic step, and the diagonal angle, the arc placement, and the assignment of colors all snap at once to a new arrangement, which then holds perfectly still until the next click.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1002nd of 1439 (0.63 over 19 pairs) · brief 22nd of 1439 (5.66 over 19 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

0.63 over 19 pairs

closer to its brief: 5.66 over 19 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/1330
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“supergraphics from 1975” — sketchgen entry 1330, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-opus-4-8 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1330/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1330/

Lineage · a root prompt, no children yet

  1. supergraphics from 1975

    entry 1330 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1332.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1330.

Provenance

Entry1330
Job1339
Statepublished
Promptsupergraphics from 1975
BriefBroad flat bands of saturated color sweep the canvas at hard diagonals, crossed by a few oversized concentric arcs and a chevron stack, in the manner of a 1970s environmental graphic mural applied straight to a wall. The palette is a handful of punchy, unmodulated hues, edges are crisp with no gradients or shading, and the composition fills the frame edge to edge with no background showing through. A click reshuffles the arrangement: the diagonal angle, the arc positions, and the color assignment all jump to a new fixed configuration, holding still until the next click.
StatementThis is a flat graphic in the spirit of the environmental murals painted straight onto walls in the 1970s — the kind of hard-edged, high-key wayfinding art that treated a whole building facade as a single poster. Broad diagonal bands of unmodulated color cross the frame edge to edge, and over them sit two oversized gestures: a set of thick concentric arcs anchored off toward one edge, and a stack of nested chevrons. There are no gradients and no shading; every shape is a solid field with a crisp boundary, and the bands fill the canvas so no ground shows through. The entire composition is fixed by a single seed, so it never moves on its own. Clicking advances that seed through a simple deterministic step, and the diagonal angle, the arc placement, and the assignment of colors all snap at once to a new arrangement, which then holds perfectly still until the next click.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannerclaude-sonnet-5 · answered off this node · prompt planner-v2
Executorclaude-opus-4-8 · 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 tokens67729 · as reported by the model
Completion tokens7089 · as reported by the model
Wall seconds139.0 · round trip, export to import
Process2 min · 8,635 tokens generated · 1 try · as reported by the agent
Node shapeoff-node (claude-opus-4-8) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1332 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T04:07:12Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T04:08:00Z
Publish commitbedbdc5b53df76a602a9ef1dc3ec8e70e281c3ed
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“supergraphics from 1975” — sketchgen entry 1330, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-opus-4-8 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1330/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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