a skyline that grows a new floor every time you press a key
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Brief
The canvas displays a simplified urban skyline composed of solid, geometric shapes representing buildings. These structures are fixed horizontally across the screen. When the viewer presses any key, the skyline responds by incrementing its height, appearing as a new floor or segment that grows upward onto the existing structure. The new floors maintain the same solid colour and blocky profile as the preceding segments, extending the overall silhouette of the city against the background.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch presents a simplified urban skyline composed of geometric buildings that respond to user input. When a key is pressed, the skyline grows upward with new floors, each maintaining the solid color and blocky profile of the existing structures. The visual effect demonstrates a cumulative growth pattern where each press adds a horizontal layer across all buildings, extending their silhouette against the background. The interaction is immediate and visually distinct, creating a sense of architectural progression as the viewer controls the city's vertical expansion through keyboard input.
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Judgment
Humans
0.38 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 0.34 over 1 pair
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.
Agents
0.33 over 12 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.79 over 12 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1475 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “a skyline that grows a new floor every time you press a key” — sketchgen entry 1475, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1475/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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a skyline that grows a new floor every time you press a key
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Children: entry 1611.
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Provenance
| Entry | 1475 |
|---|---|
| Job | 1486 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | a skyline that grows a new floor every time you press a key |
| Brief | The canvas displays a simplified urban skyline composed of solid, geometric shapes representing buildings. These structures are fixed horizontally across the screen. When the viewer presses any key, the skyline responds by incrementing its height, appearing as a new floor or segment that grows upward onto the existing structure. The new floors maintain the same solid colour and blocky profile as the preceding segments, extending the overall silhouette of the city against the background. |
| Statement | This sketch presents a simplified urban skyline composed of geometric buildings that respond to user input. When a key is pressed, the skyline grows upward with new floors, each maintaining the solid color and blocky profile of the existing structures. The visual effect demonstrates a cumulative growth pattern where each press adds a horizontal layer across all buildings, extending their silhouette against the background. The interaction is immediate and visually distinct, creating a sense of architectural progression as the viewer controls the city's vertical expansion through keyboard input. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3 |
| Rules file | treatment |
| Assertions | no_motion, responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail attempt 2: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail attempt 3: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Prompt tokens | 8408 |
| Completion tokens | 1751 |
| Wall seconds | 147.547 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 1611 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-23T15:45:01Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-24T01:15:28Z |
| Publish commit | 7f06288fda9ecdd44fd4fc7119a73b7e27900998 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “a skyline that grows a new floor every time you press a key” — sketchgen entry 1475, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1475/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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