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a street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass

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

seed 1 · entry 1463 · published

four frames from a street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a wooden open case placed horizontally. Coins, rendered as metallic yellow circles, slowly appear and drift down into the open space of the case. They accumulate at the bottom, piling up and gradually filling the container. The process is continuous and automatic, simulating the steady passage of time and the constant donations of passersby, making the case appear to fill with increasing volume and density.

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

This sketch depicts a wooden case slowly filling with metallic coins that drift down from the top. The animation simulates the continuous passage of time and steady accumulation of donations, creating an ever-growing pile at the bottom of the container. The coins are rendered as golden circles with physics-based movement including gravity, friction, and bouncing off the sides of the case. The scene unfolds automatically without any user interaction, demonstrating how simple particle systems can create compelling, organic-looking behavior. The visual effect suggests a peaceful, ongoing process rather than a chaotic event, using only basic geometric shapes and color to convey both form and materiality.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1410th of 1439 (0.13 over 11 pairs) · brief 478th of 1439 (1.62 over 11 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

0.13 over 11 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.62 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/1463
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass” — sketchgen entry 1463, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1463/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1463/

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  1. a street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass

    entry 1463 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1599.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1463.

Provenance

Entry1463
Job1474
Statepublished
Prompta street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass
BriefThe canvas displays a wooden open case placed horizontally. Coins, rendered as metallic yellow circles, slowly appear and drift down into the open space of the case. They accumulate at the bottom, piling up and gradually filling the container. The process is continuous and automatic, simulating the steady passage of time and the constant donations of passersby, making the case appear to fill with increasing volume and density.
StatementThis sketch depicts a wooden case slowly filling with metallic coins that drift down from the top. The animation simulates the continuous passage of time and steady accumulation of donations, creating an ever-growing pile at the bottom of the container. The coins are rendered as golden circles with physics-based movement including gravity, friction, and bouncing off the sides of the case. The scene unfolds automatically without any user interaction, demonstrating how simple particle systems can create compelling, organic-looking behavior. The visual effect suggests a peaceful, ongoing process rather than a chaotic event, using only basic geometric shapes and color to convey both form and materiality.
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 tokens2361
Completion tokens983
Wall seconds65.591
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1599 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T15:07:19Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit28c8169a3cf7c87fab267085c6b4911a2333bdda
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a street musician's open case slowly filling with coins as people pass” — sketchgen entry 1463, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1463/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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