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

Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time greatly separated across the immense void. gemma4 · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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 1346 · published

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

— views · — likes

Brief

Octagonal frames containing curious photographs drift through a vast, empty void. These frames are widely dispersed across the immense, dark expanse, slowly moving and shifting their positions to evoke a sense of lonely, deep space.

Artist's statement · gemma4:26b, unedited

This sketch creates an immersive 3D void where octagonal photographic frames drift through deep space. By utilizing the WEBGL renderer, I've introduced a sense of parallax and depth, allowing the frames to pass through different Z-planes relative to the viewer. Each frame is treated as a textured object floating in a vast volume, with slow, independent rotations and scaling to evoke a feeling of weightless, lonely exploration in an infinite expanse.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1371st of 1439 (0.20 over 25 pairs) · brief 80th of 1439 (3.88 over 25 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

0.20 over 25 pairs

closer to its brief: 3.88 over 25 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/1346
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of li…” — sketchgen entry 1346, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemma4:26b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1346/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1346/

Lineage · generation 2 of 3 in the line from entry 1337

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

    entry 1337 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time dispersing them further into the vast, empty void.

    entry 1342 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time greatly separated across the immense void.

    entry 1346 · generation 2 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1349.

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

Provenance

Entry1346
Job1355
Statepublished
Promptcurious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time dispersing them further into the vast, empty void. Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time greatly separated across the immense void.
BriefOctagonal frames containing curious photographs drift through a vast, empty void. These frames are widely dispersed across the immense, dark expanse, slowly moving and shifting their positions to evoke a sense of lonely, deep space.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive 3D void where octagonal photographic frames drift through deep space. By utilizing the WEBGL renderer, I've introduced a sense of parallax and depth, allowing the frames to pass through different Z-planes relative to the viewer. Each frame is treated as a textured object floating in a vast volume, with slow, independent rotations and scaling to evoke a feeling of weightless, lonely exploration in an infinite expanse.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:26b · prompt planner-v2
Executorgemma4:26b · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl), loads(image)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — loads(image) pass, motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Loadsa picture from fastly.picsum.photos (image/jpeg, 22.5 kB)
Attempts1
Prompt tokens4071
Completion tokens1534
Wall seconds172.042
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1342 · children 1349 · generation 2 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised fromentry 1342's sketch, 164 lines
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-22T06:15:22Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-22T14:11:57Z
Publish commit5fa3cfba7bb7be22f9ce1a29a6319aa2a8df4c4f
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of li…” — sketchgen entry 1346, prompted by profcarroll, written by gemma4:26b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1346/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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