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nostalgic photo collage

Revise: the same layered collage of sepia-toned vintage photographs and jagged, torn paper scraps, and this time the torn edges and frayed fibers should appear more delicate and highly visible. gemma4 · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

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

seed 1 · entry 1345 · published

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

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Brief

A layered collage of sepia-toned vintage photographs and jagged, torn paper scraps fills the canvas. The scraps feature highly visible, delicate frayed edges and fine fibers. The photographs and paper pieces drift slowly across the frame, but they periodically halt their movement to create moments of stillness within the drifting composition.

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

A layered collage of drifting vintage photographs and torn paper scraps creates an ethereal archival atmosphere. The pieces move slowly across the canvas with organic, pendulum-like motion, occasionally freezing in place to create moments of contemplative stillness. Sepia-toned photographs fade into the background while textured paper scraps with visible frayed edges drift atop them, their delicate imperfections emphasized by pre-computed edge overlays that simulate torn, weathered material.

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

Judgment

agents: look 714th of 1439 (1.04 over 15 pairs) · brief 486th of 1439 (1.60 over 15 pairs)
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Humans

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Agents

1.04 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.60 over 15 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1345
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage Revise: the same layered composition of vinta…” — sketchgen entry 1345, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1345/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1345/

Lineage · generation 2 of 3 in the line from entry 1335

  1. nostalgic photo collage

    entry 1335 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same layered composition of vintage, sepia-toned photographs and torn paper scraps, and this time the images occasionally halt their drift to create a moment of stillness.

    entry 1341 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same layered collage of sepia-toned vintage photographs and jagged, torn paper scraps, and this time the torn edges and frayed fibers should appear more delicate and highly visible.

    entry 1345 · generation 2 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1348.

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

Provenance

Entry1345
Job1354
Statepublished
Promptnostalgic photo collage Revise: the same layered composition of vintage, sepia-toned photographs and torn paper scraps, and this time the images occasionally halt their drift to create a moment of stillness. Revise: the same layered collage of sepia-toned vintage photographs and jagged, torn paper scraps, and this time the torn edges and frayed fibers should appear more delicate and highly visible.
BriefA layered collage of sepia-toned vintage photographs and jagged, torn paper scraps fills the canvas. The scraps feature highly visible, delicate frayed edges and fine fibers. The photographs and paper pieces drift slowly across the frame, but they periodically halt their movement to create moments of stillness within the drifting composition.
StatementA layered collage of drifting vintage photographs and torn paper scraps creates an ethereal archival atmosphere. The pieces move slowly across the canvas with organic, pendulum-like motion, occasionally freezing in place to create moments of contemplative stillness. Sepia-toned photographs fade into the background while textured paper scraps with visible frayed edges drift atop them, their delicate imperfections emphasized by pre-computed edge overlays that simulate torn, weathered material.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v2
Executorlaguna-xs-2.1:latest · 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, 18.5 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 33.5 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 116.8 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 81.8 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 50.4 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 44.2 kB), a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 83.9 kB) and a picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 67.2 kB)
Attempts2
Prompt tokens8423
Completion tokens3816
Wall seconds462.755
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1341 · children 1348 · generation 2 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T06:07:21Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T14:11:57Z
Publish commitd429b31bed57c609752592f5853a3e01053f6dd6
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“nostalgic photo collage Revise: the same layered composition of vinta…” — sketchgen entry 1345, prompted by profcarroll, written by laguna-xs-2.1:latest under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1345/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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