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a lava lamp in zero gravity

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

seed 1 · entry 1477 · published

four frames from a lava lamp in zero gravity under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas shows an enclosed, fluid medium filled with amorphous, colored blobs. These masses of color rise and drift slowly, flowing past each other in undulating, mesmerizing patterns. The liquid behaves as if suspended in a weightless environment, allowing vibrant shapes to stretch and merge into new gradients. The movement is continuous and highly cyclical, creating a deeply soothing spectacle of shifting color and slow, graceful motion within the contained space.

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

This sketch creates an immersive, fluid environment filled with amorphous color masses that drift and flow gently within a contained space. Using the WEBGL renderer, it employs spherical particles with dynamic movement patterns—each blob has its own velocity and trails that follow its path, creating continuous, mesmerizing motion. The blobs subtly interact with each other through their shared centering force and boundary constraints, forming an organic, weightless ecosystem where color and form blend and shift over time. The visual effect is calming and hypnotic, capturing the essence of fluid dynamics in a suspended, dreamlike medium.

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

Judgment

agents: look 24th of 1439 (7.38 over 18 pairs) · brief 333rd of 1439 (2.12 over 18 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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Agents

7.38 over 18 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.12 over 18 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/1477
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lava lamp in zero gravity” — sketchgen entry 1477, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1477/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1477/

Lineage · the root of a line 5 generations deep

  1. a lava lamp in zero gravity

    entry 1477 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1613.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1477.

Provenance

Entry1477
Job1488
Statepublished
Prompta lava lamp in zero gravity
BriefThe canvas shows an enclosed, fluid medium filled with amorphous, colored blobs. These masses of color rise and drift slowly, flowing past each other in undulating, mesmerizing patterns. The liquid behaves as if suspended in a weightless environment, allowing vibrant shapes to stretch and merge into new gradients. The movement is continuous and highly cyclical, creating a deeply soothing spectacle of shifting color and slow, graceful motion within the contained space.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive, fluid environment filled with amorphous color masses that drift and flow gently within a contained space. Using the WEBGL renderer, it employs spherical particles with dynamic movement patterns—each blob has its own velocity and trails that follow its path, creating continuous, mesmerizing motion. The blobs subtly interact with each other through their shared centering force and boundary constraints, forming an organic, weightless ecosystem where color and form blend and shift over time. The visual effect is calming and hypnotic, capturing the essence of fluid dynamics in a suspended, dreamlike medium.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2393
Completion tokens721
Wall seconds49.676
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1613 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T15:49:25Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit4ec9f087fad8d520ede8ece560f3bd4106757899
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lava lamp in zero gravity” — sketchgen entry 1477, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1477/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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