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dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center

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

seed 1 · entry 1485 · published

four frames from dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas is filled with falling, rectangular shapes representing dominoes. These shapes continuously pour onto the screen from the edges, interacting with one another as they fall. The movement is highly systematic, guiding the shapes into a mesmerizing, spiraling pattern. This perpetual cascade of blocks creates a sense of perpetual, inescapable motion, generating a visual vortex that constantly rotates and draws near the center without ever collapsing or reaching a single point.

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

This sketch creates an mesmerizing cascade of falling dominoes that spiral toward the center of the canvas. The dominoes continuously pour from the edges, bouncing off walls and gradually spiraling inward due to their physics-based movement and rotation. Each domino has unique properties including size, speed, and color, creating a dynamic, flowing pattern that never collapses into a single point but instead maintains perpetual motion around the center. The visual effect is enhanced by a subtle trail behind each domino and a central spiral vortex that guides the viewer's eye toward the heart of the composition. The system uses physics simulation to create natural-looking interactions while maintaining performance within the strict frame budget constraints.

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

Judgment

agents: look 150th of 1439 (3.08 over 14 pairs) · brief 1342nd of 1439 (0.20 over 14 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.

Agents

3.08 over 14 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.20 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1485
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center” — sketchgen entry 1485, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1485/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1485/

Lineage · the root of a line 7 generations deep

  1. dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center

    entry 1485 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1620.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1485.

Provenance

Entry1485
Job1496
Statepublished
Promptdominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center
BriefThe canvas is filled with falling, rectangular shapes representing dominoes. These shapes continuously pour onto the screen from the edges, interacting with one another as they fall. The movement is highly systematic, guiding the shapes into a mesmerizing, spiraling pattern. This perpetual cascade of blocks creates a sense of perpetual, inescapable motion, generating a visual vortex that constantly rotates and draws near the center without ever collapsing or reaching a single point.
StatementThis sketch creates an mesmerizing cascade of falling dominoes that spiral toward the center of the canvas. The dominoes continuously pour from the edges, bouncing off walls and gradually spiraling inward due to their physics-based movement and rotation. Each domino has unique properties including size, speed, and color, creating a dynamic, flowing pattern that never collapses into a single point but instead maintains perpetual motion around the center. The visual effect is enhanced by a subtle trail behind each domino and a central spiral vortex that guides the viewer's eye toward the heart of the composition. The system uses physics simulation to create natural-looking interactions while maintaining performance within the strict frame budget constraints.
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 tokens2369
Completion tokens871
Wall seconds56.748
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1620 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T16:15:33Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit3d05c9ce11780bb00860a605a3f3917ccbe796b9
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center” — sketchgen entry 1485, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1485/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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