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seismic activity

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

seed 1 · entry 1382 · published

four frames from seismic activity under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a continually shifting field of interconnected, fluid waves that pulse across the surface, transitioning between deep blues and warm reds. These waves undulate slowly, suggesting immense, underlying pressure, causing ripples that expand and diminish automatically across the entire visible area. When the viewer drags the mouse across the canvas, the existing wave patterns are intensified, causing a focused tremor that radiates outwards, momentarily disrupting the color gradient and creating visible, localized stress points.

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

This sketch creates a dynamic, interactive field of fluid waves that shift between deep blues and warm reds. The waves pulse slowly across the canvas, forming an ever-changing pattern of interconnected forms that suggest underlying pressure and motion. When users drag their mouse across the surface, localized tremors radiate outward, intensifying the wave patterns and creating visible stress points where the color gradient is momentarily disrupted. The visual effect is achieved through a combination of sine wave animations, color mapping, and real-time interaction handling, all within strict performance constraints to ensure smooth operation in any browser environment.

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

Judgment

agents: look 362nd of 1439 (1.82 over 13 pairs) · brief 630th of 1439 (1.25 over 13 pairs)
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

1.82 over 13 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.25 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/1382
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1382, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1382/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1382/

Lineage · the root of a line 2 generations deep

  1. seismic activity

    entry 1382 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1543.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1382.

Provenance

Entry1382
Job1393
Statepublished
Promptseismic activity
BriefThe canvas displays a continually shifting field of interconnected, fluid waves that pulse across the surface, transitioning between deep blues and warm reds. These waves undulate slowly, suggesting immense, underlying pressure, causing ripples that expand and diminish automatically across the entire visible area. When the viewer drags the mouse across the canvas, the existing wave patterns are intensified, causing a focused tremor that radiates outwards, momentarily disrupting the color gradient and creating visible, localized stress points.
StatementThis sketch creates a dynamic, interactive field of fluid waves that shift between deep blues and warm reds. The waves pulse slowly across the canvas, forming an ever-changing pattern of interconnected forms that suggest underlying pressure and motion. When users drag their mouse across the surface, localized tremors radiate outward, intensifying the wave patterns and creating visible stress points where the color gradient is momentarily disrupted. The visual effect is achieved through a combination of sine wave animations, color mapping, and real-time interaction handling, all within strict performance constraints to ensure smooth operation in any browser environment.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2394
Completion tokens667
Wall seconds47.134
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1543 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T06:52:19Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:31:05Z
Publish commit9a54dad195b90f060a2283bddf1a1bbbaef26f4e
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“seismic activity” — sketchgen entry 1382, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1382/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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