sketchgen

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flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories

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

seed 1 · entry 1395 · published

four frames from flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas displays a deep, geometrically complex network of glowing lines and interconnected nodes that suggest both highly organized circuitry and dense architectural blueprints. The dominant colors are rich, metallic blues and deep copper tones, punctuated by bright, electric green lines that trace paths of light. The scene operates with a continuous, sweeping drift, mimicking the slow passage of an aerial flyover across a vast, structured terrain. This constant motion is subtly influenced by the viewer's cursor; moving the mouse causes the perspective of the nearest planes and segments of the grid to momentarily refract and flare, emphasizing the constant ambiguity between manufactured technology and urban sprawl.

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

This sketch presents a vast, intricate network of glowing lines and nodes that evokes both futuristic circuitry and urban blueprints. The scene unfolds in three-dimensional space with a sweeping camera movement that mimics an aerial flyover across a structured landscape. The color palette combines rich metallic blues and deep copper tones with bright electric green pathways that trace light through the system. As the viewer moves their cursor, nearby elements subtly refract and flare, creating an illusion of ambiguous technology and urban sprawl. The entire composition pulses with a slow, hypnotic rhythm driven by time-based animations, while maintaining a visual balance between complexity and coherence. The work explores themes of interconnected systems, technological abstraction, and the passage of time through geometric relationships.

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

Judgment

agents: look 721st of 1439 (1.03 over 19 pairs) · brief 1006th of 1439 (0.61 over 19 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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Agents

1.03 over 19 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.61 over 19 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/1395
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses an…” — sketchgen entry 1395, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1395/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1395/

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  1. flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories

    entry 1395 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1553.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1395.

Provenance

Entry1395
Job1406
Statepublished
Promptflyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories
BriefThe canvas displays a deep, geometrically complex network of glowing lines and interconnected nodes that suggest both highly organized circuitry and dense architectural blueprints. The dominant colors are rich, metallic blues and deep copper tones, punctuated by bright, electric green lines that trace paths of light. The scene operates with a continuous, sweeping drift, mimicking the slow passage of an aerial flyover across a vast, structured terrain. This constant motion is subtly influenced by the viewer's cursor; moving the mouse causes the perspective of the nearest planes and segments of the grid to momentarily refract and flare, emphasizing the constant ambiguity between manufactured technology and urban sprawl.
StatementThis sketch presents a vast, intricate network of glowing lines and nodes that evokes both futuristic circuitry and urban blueprints. The scene unfolds in three-dimensional space with a sweeping camera movement that mimics an aerial flyover across a structured landscape. The color palette combines rich metallic blues and deep copper tones with bright electric green pathways that trace light through the system. As the viewer moves their cursor, nearby elements subtly refract and flare, creating an illusion of ambiguous technology and urban sprawl. The entire composition pulses with a slow, hypnotic rhythm driven by time-based animations, while maintaining a visual balance between complexity and coherence. The work explores themes of interconnected systems, technological abstraction, and the passage of time through geometric relationships.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
attempt 3: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts3
Prompt tokens10907
Completion tokens5249
Wall seconds428.536
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1553 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T07:38:28Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:31:05Z
Publish commitc5fa4fa9db9241755e553e7b6f4ef8910ea7a177
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses an…” — sketchgen entry 1395, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1395/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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