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a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves

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

seed 1 · entry 1472 · published

four frames from a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas displays an ethereal jellyfish rendered in flowing, translucent shapes. Its body is composed entirely of smoothly undulating, bioluminescent patterns, predominantly deep blues and bright cyans. These complex wave structures continuously expand, contract, and drift across the canvas, creating a sense of perpetual, fluid motion. The entire organism pulsates and moves gently and autonomously, without needing any direct interaction from the viewer to maintain its shifting, mesmerizing form.

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

This sketch renders an ethereal jellyfish using layered undulating waveforms that pulse and flow autonomously across the canvas. The organism's body is composed of multiple translucent, bioluminescent layers in deep blues and bright cyans, each expanding and contracting in sync with its own rhythmic motion. Floating particles drift through the space, enhancing the luminous, dreamlike quality of the form. The fluid, organic movement emerges from mathematical wave functions that continuously evolve over time, creating an immersive visual experience without any external interaction. The jellyfish appears to breathe and drift gently, maintaining its mesmerizing form through self-generated animation.

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

Judgment

agents: look 137th of 1439 (3.28 over 14 pairs) · brief 659th of 1439 (1.20 over 14 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

3.28 over 14 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.20 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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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1472
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves” — sketchgen entry 1472, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1472/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1472/

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  1. a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves

    entry 1472 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1608.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1472.

Provenance

Entry1472
Job1483
Statepublished
Prompta jellyfish made of drifting sine waves
BriefThe canvas displays an ethereal jellyfish rendered in flowing, translucent shapes. Its body is composed entirely of smoothly undulating, bioluminescent patterns, predominantly deep blues and bright cyans. These complex wave structures continuously expand, contract, and drift across the canvas, creating a sense of perpetual, fluid motion. The entire organism pulsates and moves gently and autonomously, without needing any direct interaction from the viewer to maintain its shifting, mesmerizing form.
StatementThis sketch renders an ethereal jellyfish using layered undulating waveforms that pulse and flow autonomously across the canvas. The organism's body is composed of multiple translucent, bioluminescent layers in deep blues and bright cyans, each expanding and contracting in sync with its own rhythmic motion. Floating particles drift through the space, enhancing the luminous, dreamlike quality of the form. The fluid, organic movement emerges from mathematical wave functions that continuously evolve over time, creating an immersive visual experience without any external interaction. The jellyfish appears to breathe and drift gently, maintaining its mesmerizing form through self-generated animation.
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 tokens2372
Completion tokens699
Wall seconds47.573
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1608 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T15:37:50Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit2897c7dae8c21f15f953cd331eb67a168d5a7559
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves” — sketchgen entry 1472, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1472/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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