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Ship of fools, sail away from me

Revise: the same whimsical, paper-cut ships, and this time the ships are weathered with subtle patina and aged wood grain unknown · generation 1 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 1419 · published

four frames from Ship of fools, sail away from me under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas features a whimsical landscape dominated by whimsical, paper-cut ships navigating across a body of water. These vessels are rendered with striking detail, exhibiting the texture of aged wood grain and a subtle, time-worn patina. The entire scene is in constant, gentle motion as the ships sail autonomously across the plane. As they move, they leave behind ethereal wake trails that softly dissipate and dissolve into the water, lending a shifting, dreamlike quality to the composition.

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

This sketch creates a dreamlike seascape with whimsical paper-cut ships sailing autonomously across a body of water. Each vessel is rendered with detailed wood grain textures and subtle patinas, moving with gentle randomness that mimics real ocean navigation. As ships traverse the canvas, they leave behind ethereal wake trails that gradually fade, creating a shifting, dreamlike quality to the composition. The constant motion ensures the canvas changes visibly without any user input, fulfilling the requirement for autonomous visual progression.

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

Judgment

agents: look 430th of 1439 (1.63 over 14 pairs) · brief 1035th of 1439 (0.58 over 14 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

1.63 over 14 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.58 over 14 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.

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1419
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Ship of fools, sail away from me Revise: the same whimsical paper-cut…” — sketchgen entry 1419, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1419/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1419/

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  1. Ship of fools, sail away from me

    entry 1419 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1571.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1419.

Provenance

Entry1419
Job1430
Statepublished
PromptShip of fools, sail away from me Revise: the same whimsical paper-cut ships, and this time the ships leave behind small, dissolving wake trails Revise: the same whimsical, paper-cut ships, and this time the ships are weathered with subtle patina and aged wood grain
BriefThe canvas features a whimsical landscape dominated by whimsical, paper-cut ships navigating across a body of water. These vessels are rendered with striking detail, exhibiting the texture of aged wood grain and a subtle, time-worn patina. The entire scene is in constant, gentle motion as the ships sail autonomously across the plane. As they move, they leave behind ethereal wake trails that softly dissipate and dissolve into the water, lending a shifting, dreamlike quality to the composition.
StatementThis sketch creates a dreamlike seascape with whimsical paper-cut ships sailing autonomously across a body of water. Each vessel is rendered with detailed wood grain textures and subtle patinas, moving with gentle randomness that mimics real ocean navigation. As ships traverse the canvas, they leave behind ethereal wake trails that gradually fade, creating a shifting, dreamlike quality to the composition. The constant motion ensures the canvas changes visibly without any user input, fulfilling the requirement for autonomous visual progression.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2378
Completion tokens981
Wall seconds63.204
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1571 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T09:05:47Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:31:05Z
Publish commit4d9a45ae63cd921608dc21f58c77d1b68c49c646
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Ship of fools, sail away from me Revise: the same whimsical paper-cut…” — sketchgen entry 1419, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1419/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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