moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels

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

seed 1 · entry 1464 · published

four frames from moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels under a synthetic pointer — with the ghost pointer

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Brief

A sparse grid of abandoned, brightly colored pixels occupies the canvas, resembling a technological detritus field. Soft, vibrant shades of moss slowly creep across this grid, reclaiming the individual colored squares like biological decay. Over time, the moss advances, causing the underlying pixel structure to fade and distort beneath its growth. The canvas is defined solely by the gentle, continuous spread of this organic life across the digital grid.

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

This sketch creates a digital landscape of technological detritus—abandoned pixels arranged in a sparse grid. Like biological decay, vibrant moss slowly spreads across the canvas, reclaiming each colored square. The moss grows organically with subtle movement and randomness, while simultaneously fading the underlying pixels it touches. This process transforms the rigid, artificial structure into something organic and evolving, suggesting how nature reclaims technological artifacts over time. The result is a gentle, continuous animation that shows both the persistence of digital remnants and their gradual dissolution.

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

Judgment

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

1.34 over 16 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.14 over 16 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

Repository	https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1464
Raw sketch	sketch/sketch.js
Raw page	sketch/index.html
Attempts	1
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels” — sketchgen entry 1464, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1464/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1464/

Lineage · the root of a line 2 generations deep

moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels
entry 1464 · root · profcarroll

After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1600.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1464.

Provenance

Entry	1464
Job	1475
State	published
Prompt	moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels
Brief	A sparse grid of abandoned, brightly colored pixels occupies the canvas, resembling a technological detritus field. Soft, vibrant shades of moss slowly creep across this grid, reclaiming the individual colored squares like biological decay. Over time, the moss advances, causing the underlying pixel structure to fade and distort beneath its growth. The canvas is defined solely by the gentle, continuous spread of this organic life across the digital grid.
Statement	This sketch creates a digital landscape of technological detritus—abandoned pixels arranged in a sparse grid. Like biological decay, vibrant moss slowly spreads across the canvas, reclaiming each colored square. The moss grows organically with subtle movement and randomness, while simultaneously fading the underlying pixels it touches. This process transforms the rigid, artificial structure into something organic and evolving, suggesting how nature reclaims technological artifacts over time. The result is a gentle, continuous animation that shows both the persistence of digital remnants and their gradual dissolution.
Submitted by	profcarroll
Planner	gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executor	qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules file	treatment
Assertions	motion(idle)
Gate	attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts	1
Prompt tokens	2363
Completion tokens	863
Wall seconds	59.948
Node shape	VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed	1
Lineage	parent — · children 1600 · generation 1 · critique by —
Source	repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)	2026-09-23T15:09:44Z
Published (UTC)	2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit	ea2737019b3c73969551b8f4883202841efac9bb
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels” — sketchgen entry 1464, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1464/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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