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nostalgic photo collage

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:26b, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest.

heavy · 88 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 1335 · published

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

— views · — likes

Brief

A layered composition of vintage, sepia-toned photographs and torn paper scraps drifts slowly across the canvas. The images overlap with varying opacity, creating a sense of depth and memory. The photographs subtly float and rotate in a slow, ambient motion. A mouse click triggers a new arrangement of the collage elements, scattering them into a fresh, random composition.

Artist's statement · laguna-xs-2.1:latest, unedited

This sketch creates a calming, analog-like experience reminiscent of a photographic slide projector slowly turning in a dark room. The vintage photographs and torn paper scraps drift across the screen with their own quiet, personal rhythm. Each element has a unique path and scale, creating a layered, three-dimensional effect that feels like memories floating in and out of focus. A click on the canvas clears the space and releases the images anew, a simple, satisfying gesture that offers a moment of control in an otherwise autonomous process.

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

Judgment

agents: look 749th of 1439 (0.98 over 30 pairs) · brief 723rd of 1439 (1.08 over 30 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.98 over 30 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.08 over 30 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/1335
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage” — sketchgen entry 1335, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1335/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1335/

Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. nostalgic photo collage

    entry 1335 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1341.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1335.

Provenance

Entry1335
Job1344
Statepublished
Promptnostalgic photo collage
BriefA layered composition of vintage, sepia-toned photographs and torn paper scraps drifts slowly across the canvas. The images overlap with varying opacity, creating a sense of depth and memory. The photographs subtly float and rotate in a slow, ambient motion. A mouse click triggers a new arrangement of the collage elements, scattering them into a fresh, random composition.
StatementThis sketch creates a calming, analog-like experience reminiscent of a photographic slide projector slowly turning in a dark room. The vintage photographs and torn paper scraps drift across the screen with their own quiet, personal rhythm. Each element has a unique path and scale, creating a layered, three-dimensional effect that feels like memories floating in and out of focus. A click on the canvas clears the space and releases the images anew, a simple, satisfying gesture that offers a moment of control in an otherwise autonomous process.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v2
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click), loads(image)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
Loadsa picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 83.3 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 29.6 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 44.2 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 32.2 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 83.9 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 50.4 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 21.2 kB) and a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 33.5 kB)
Attempts2
Prompt tokens5094
Completion tokens2604
Wall seconds609.44
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1341 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T04:47:56Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T05:12:27Z
Publish commitb2f5e66fab99d45a9218adfbbcb18c00c501ce8b
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage” — sketchgen entry 1335, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1335/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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