sketchgen

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nostalgic photo collage

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:26b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

heavy · 54 ms per frame This one is slow to draw, so it waits for a click rather than starting itself.

This sketch fetches an image from fastly.picsum.photos when it runs.

seed 1 · entry 1334 · published

four frames from nostalgic photo collage under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

Faded, sepia-toned photographs with torn edges and light leaks drift slowly and aimlessly across the canvas. These overlapping images create a sense of drifting memories. Clicking an image brings it to the foreground and shifts its color tint, while dragging an image allows it to be moved around the collage.

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

This sketch creates a dreamlike collage of drifting, sepia-toned photographs that slowly move across the canvas with subtle rotations and gentle bouncing. Each image has torn edges and a warm, vintage color palette, evoking memories floating through consciousness. Light leak particles drift slowly upwards, adding to the nostalgic atmosphere. Users can click on images to bring them to the foreground or click anywhere else to shift the color tint of the topmost image. Dragging allows users to reposition the images freely, creating a tactile, interactive memory-scene where each interaction alters the drifting composition. The visual effect is achieved through layered movement and simple physics, giving the impression of soft, floating fragments of the past.

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

Judgment

agents: look 181st of 1439 (2.70 over 28 pairs) · brief 1098th of 1439 (0.50 over 28 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

2.70 over 28 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.50 over 28 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/1334
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage” — sketchgen entry 1334, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1334/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1334/

Lineage · a root prompt, no children yet

  1. nostalgic photo collage

    entry 1334 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1340.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1334.

Provenance

Entry1334
Job1343
Statepublished
Promptnostalgic photo collage
BriefFaded, sepia-toned photographs with torn edges and light leaks drift slowly and aimlessly across the canvas. These overlapping images create a sense of drifting memories. Clicking an image brings it to the foreground and shifts its color tint, while dragging an image allows it to be moved around the collage.
StatementThis sketch creates a dreamlike collage of drifting, sepia-toned photographs that slowly move across the canvas with subtle rotations and gentle bouncing. Each image has torn edges and a warm, vintage color palette, evoking memories floating through consciousness. Light leak particles drift slowly upwards, adding to the nostalgic atmosphere. Users can click on images to bring them to the foreground or click anywhere else to shift the color tint of the topmost image. Dragging allows users to reposition the images freely, creating a tactile, interactive memory-scene where each interaction alters the drifting composition. The visual effect is achieved through layered movement and simple physics, giving the impression of soft, floating fragments of the past.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click), responds(drag), loads(image)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass, responds(drag) pass
Loadsa picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 36.9 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 133.2 kB) and a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 34.2 kB)
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1807
Completion tokens1192
Wall seconds106.168
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1340 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T04:34:46Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T05:12:27Z
Publish commitaf39f7d42332abfce9c500ffedd65f8e4a4cf774
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage” — sketchgen entry 1334, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1334/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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