sketchgen

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yacht rock

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

seed 1 · entry 1389 · published

four frames from yacht rock under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas fills with a deep, gradient wash of tropical blues and faded golds, giving the impression of a vast sunset over calm water. Abstract, fluid shapes—like silks draped in a gentle breeze—drift across the scene, constantly transforming and overlapping. These forms resemble stylized lounge lamps or soft, distant ocean swells. When the mouse is clicked, the entire color palette subtly shifts, deepening the saturation and causing the drifting shapes to momentarily coalesce into a distinct, elegant geometric pattern before slowly dissolving back into the ambient flow.

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

This sketch creates an immersive underwater sunset scene with fluid, organic shapes that drift and transform across the canvas. The composition features a gradient background shifting from deep tropical blues to faded golds, evoking calm water at dusk. Hundreds of gently moving spheres—representing both distant ocean swells and stylized lounge lamps—flow across the screen with subtle rotations and movements. When clicked, the entire scene shifts into a more intense color palette and briefly coalesces into an elegant geometric pattern before dissolving back into the ambient flow. The technique uses WEBGL rendering for efficient 3D particle effects, with shapes that continuously transform their positions and rotations to create an organic, breathing quality. The viewer experiences a meditative blend of natural motion and subtle geometric precision, capturing both the tranquility of water and the elegance of design.

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

Judgment

agents: look 71st of 1439 (4.52 over 11 pairs) · brief 1252nd of 1439 (0.30 over 11 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

4.52 over 11 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.30 over 11 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/1389
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“yacht rock” — sketchgen entry 1389, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1389/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1389/

Lineage · the root of a line 6 generations deep

  1. yacht rock

    entry 1389 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1548.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1389.

Provenance

Entry1389
Job1400
Statepublished
Promptyacht rock
BriefThe canvas fills with a deep, gradient wash of tropical blues and faded golds, giving the impression of a vast sunset over calm water. Abstract, fluid shapes—like silks draped in a gentle breeze—drift across the scene, constantly transforming and overlapping. These forms resemble stylized lounge lamps or soft, distant ocean swells. When the mouse is clicked, the entire color palette subtly shifts, deepening the saturation and causing the drifting shapes to momentarily coalesce into a distinct, elegant geometric pattern before slowly dissolving back into the ambient flow.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive underwater sunset scene with fluid, organic shapes that drift and transform across the canvas. The composition features a gradient background shifting from deep tropical blues to faded golds, evoking calm water at dusk. Hundreds of gently moving spheres—representing both distant ocean swells and stylized lounge lamps—flow across the screen with subtle rotations and movements. When clicked, the entire scene shifts into a more intense color palette and briefly coalesces into an elegant geometric pattern before dissolving back into the ambient flow. The technique uses WEBGL rendering for efficient 3D particle effects, with shapes that continuously transform their positions and rotations to create an organic, breathing quality. The viewer experiences a meditative blend of natural motion and subtle geometric precision, capturing both the tranquility of water and the elegance of design.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2436
Completion tokens1300
Wall seconds79.853
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1548 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T07:10:01Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:31:05Z
Publish commitd8b3db82ce471196214e3281142dc0ea8a6985ec
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“yacht rock” — sketchgen entry 1389, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1389/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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