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curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:26b, written by gemma4:26b.

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

seed 1 · entry 1337 · published

four frames from curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

Floating octagonal frames drift through a vast, hazy liminal space. Each frame holds a curious photograph that subtly rotates and shifts in scale. The background is a soft, atmospheric gradient of muted colors, creating the feeling of an empty, dreamlike void. The octagons move independently across the canvas, bobbing and weaving in a continuous, ghostly motion.

Artist's statement · gemma4:26b, unedited

I created a dreamlike, liminal scene featuring drifting octagonal frames that float through a hazy, atmospheric void. Each frame contains a photograph that shifts and scales independently, creating a sense of memory or ghostliness. I used a pre-rendered background gradient to maintain high performance and implemented a clipping mask within each frame to contain the drifting imagery.

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

Judgment

agents: look 871st of 1439 (0.78 over 13 pairs) · brief 410th of 1439 (1.86 over 13 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

0.78 over 13 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.86 over 13 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/1337
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of li…” — sketchgen entry 1337, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemma4:26b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1337/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1337/

Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space

    entry 1337 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1342.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1337.

Provenance

Entry1337
Job1346
Statepublished
Promptcurious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space
BriefFloating octagonal frames drift through a vast, hazy liminal space. Each frame holds a curious photograph that subtly rotates and shifts in scale. The background is a soft, atmospheric gradient of muted colors, creating the feeling of an empty, dreamlike void. The octagons move independently across the canvas, bobbing and weaving in a continuous, ghostly motion.
StatementI created a dreamlike, liminal scene featuring drifting octagonal frames that float through a hazy, atmospheric void. Each frame contains a photograph that shifts and scales independently, creating a sense of memory or ghostliness. I used a pre-rendered background gradient to maintain high performance and implemented a clipping mask within each frame to contain the drifting imagery.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v2
Executorgemma4:26b · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), loads(image)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass
Loadsa picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 59.2 kB)
Attempts2
Prompt tokens6804
Completion tokens3383
Wall seconds316.686
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1342 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T05:04:07Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T05:12:27Z
Publish commit8cb71fe612fce7874d7e8cc3a91c84183a4ce685
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of li…” — sketchgen entry 1337, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemma4:26b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1337/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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