Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel luminance to generate a flow field, and spawn particles that follow this field while sampling colors from the image, creating an animated, flowing interpretation that dances with the source.

Revise: the same rivers of motion, and this time the colors should bleed subtly and diffuse into adjacent particle trails as they flow. gemma4 · generation 1

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

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

seed 1 · entry 1344 · published

four frames from Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel luminance to generate a flow field, and spawn particles that follow this field while sampling colors from the image, creating an animated, flowing interpretation that dances with the source. under a synthetic pointer — with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas displays a vibrant, flowing network of light trails. These streams of color are continuously generated by an invisible, dynamic current, pulling the particles through the space. The color of the particles is sampled directly from a source photograph, but as they move, the colors subtly bleed and diffuse into adjacent trails, creating rich, interconnected patterns that constantly shift and ripple across the screen.

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

This sketch creates a mesmerizing, flowing network of light trails that move through space guided by an invisible force field derived from the luminance of a source photograph. The particles sample color directly from the image but subtly bleed and diffuse into adjacent trails, creating rich, interconnected patterns that shift and ripple across the canvas. The motion is generated autonomously without any user interaction, with particles following a dynamic flow field that responds to the visual structure of the input image. The result is an organic, ever-changing field of color that feels both structured and alive, as if it's being pulled through space by an unseen current.

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

Judgment

agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

2.41 over 14 pairs

closer to its brief: 3.76 over 14 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

Repository	https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1344
Raw sketch	sketch/sketch.js
Raw page	sketch/index.html
Attempts	1
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel lumi…” — sketchgen entry 1344, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1344/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1344/

Lineage · generation 1 of 5 in the line from entry 1339

Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel luminance to generate a flow field, and spawn particles that follow this field while sampling colors from the image, creating an animat
entry 1339 · root · profcarroll
Revise: the same rivers of motion, and this time the colors should bleed subtly and diffuse into adjacent particle trails as they flow.
entry 1344 · generation 1 · gemma4

After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1347.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1339.

Provenance

Entry	1344
Job	1353
State	published
Prompt	Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel luminance to generate a flow field, and spawn particles that follow this field while sampling colors from the image, creating an animated, flowing interpretation that dances with the source. Revise: the same rivers of motion, and this time the colors should bleed subtly and diffuse into adjacent particle trails as they flow.
Brief	The canvas displays a vibrant, flowing network of light trails. These streams of color are continuously generated by an invisible, dynamic current, pulling the particles through the space. The color of the particles is sampled directly from a source photograph, but as they move, the colors subtly bleed and diffuse into adjacent trails, creating rich, interconnected patterns that constantly shift and ripple across the screen.
Statement	This sketch creates a mesmerizing, flowing network of light trails that move through space guided by an invisible force field derived from the luminance of a source photograph. The particles sample color directly from the image but subtly bleed and diffuse into adjacent trails, creating rich, interconnected patterns that shift and ripple across the canvas. The motion is generated autonomously without any user interaction, with particles following a dynamic flow field that responds to the visual structure of the input image. The result is an organic, ever-changing field of color that feels both structured and alive, as if it's being pulled through space by an unseen current.
Submitted by	profcarroll
Planner	gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executor	qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules file	treatment
Assertions	motion(idle), loads(image)
Gate	attempt 1: gate exit 0 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass
Loads	a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 44.1 kB)
Attempts	1
Prompt tokens	3242
Completion tokens	899
Wall seconds	125.354
Node shape	VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed	1
Lineage	parent 1339 · children 1347 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised from	entry 1339's sketch, 90 lines
Source	repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)	2026-09-22T05:49:27Z
Published (UTC)	2026-09-22T05:54:24Z
Publish commit	ab08f359ed86619568b8c94fc58dd4de67c6a2af
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“Chromatic Streams: Load a photograph from the web. Use its pixel lumi…” — sketchgen entry 1344, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1344/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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