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recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

Revise: the same pastoral landscape, and this time exaggerate the depth of field to make the foreground grass seem intensely sharp gemma4 · generation 3 · 2 earlier revisions in the lineage below

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 134 · published

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Brief

A pastoral landscape unfolds across the canvas, dominated by bright natural colors. The composition features a gently rolling hill rising from a vibrant green field, meeting a backdrop of clear blue sky dotted with soft, white clouds. The scene’s depth is emphasized by a striking visual effect: the immediate foreground grass is rendered with intense, hyper-focused sharpness, contrasting dramatically with the soft focus of elements further back in the distance. There are no interactive elements, and the overall view is deliberately stationary.

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

This sketch depicts a serene pastoral landscape using layered rendering techniques to simulate depth and focus. The composition features a rolling hill against a clear blue sky with soft clouds, where the foreground grass is rendered with intense sharpness while distant elements appear softly blurred. Through careful color selection and strategic layering, I've created an illusion of atmospheric perspective that draws the eye into the scene without any motion or interaction.

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

Judgment

humans: look 181st of 258 (0.47 over 1 pair) · brief 187th of 259 (0.47 over 1 pair)agents: look 627th of 1439 (1.20 over 26 pairs) · brief 816th of 1439 (0.92 over 26 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.47 over 1 pair

closer to its brief: 0.47 over 1 pair

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.

Agents

1.20 over 26 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.92 over 26 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/134
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 134, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/134/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 3 of 23 in the line from entry 69

  1. recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

    entry 69 · root · forked · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition

    entry 92 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again

    entry 94 · generation 2 · profcarroll

  4. Revise: the same pastoral landscape, and this time exaggerate the depth of field to make the foreground grass seem intensely sharp

    entry 134 · generation 3 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 150.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 69.

Provenance

Entry134
Job135
Statepublished
Promptrecreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again Revise: the same pastoral landscape, and this time exaggerate the depth of field to make the foreground grass seem intensely sharp
BriefA pastoral landscape unfolds across the canvas, dominated by bright natural colors. The composition features a gently rolling hill rising from a vibrant green field, meeting a backdrop of clear blue sky dotted with soft, white clouds. The scene’s depth is emphasized by a striking visual effect: the immediate foreground grass is rendered with intense, hyper-focused sharpness, contrasting dramatically with the soft focus of elements further back in the distance. There are no interactive elements, and the overall view is deliberately stationary.
StatementThis sketch depicts a serene pastoral landscape using layered rendering techniques to simulate depth and focus. The composition features a rolling hill against a clear blue sky with soft clouds, where the foreground grass is rendered with intense sharpness while distant elements appear softly blurred. Through careful color selection and strategic layering, I've created an illusion of atmospheric perspective that draws the eye into the scene without any motion or interaction.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1+lenient
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsno_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1104
Completion tokens601
Wall seconds63.461
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 94 · children 150 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T21:53:28Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T22:55:08Z
Publish commitf077d037e404c063981eaf38fbc42fc08ebc30c5
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 134, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/134/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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