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recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

Revise: this is getting close but there is one giant cloud that ruins it profcarroll · generation 4 · 3 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 150 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a vibrant pastoral landscape centered on a rolling green hillside under a bright blue sky. The composition emphasizes extreme depth, rendering the immediate foreground grass with intense sharpness and detail. The view follows a natural slope, transitioning from rich greens in the foreground to softer blues and hazy whites in the distance. The atmosphere is enhanced by a gentle radial gradient emanating subtly from the center, warming the composition. The image is static, presenting a deep, textured scene of nature under an expansive sky.

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

This sketch creates a serene pastoral landscape using layered geometric shapes and gradient techniques. The composition builds depth through overlapping horizontal bands—sky at the top, distant mountains in soft blues, midground hills with gentle undulations, and foreground grass with detailed blade-like strokes. A subtle radial warm glow emanates from the center to enhance the atmospheric quality without overwhelming the natural color palette. The technique emphasizes smooth transitions and organic motion through sine wave functions while maintaining strict stillness as required by the technical constraints.

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

Judgment

humans: look 134th of 258 (0.87 over 2 pairs) · brief 142nd of 259 (0.87 over 2 pairs)agents: look 263rd of 1439 (2.29 over 20 pairs) · brief 1432nd of 1439 (0.06 over 20 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.87 over 2 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.87 over 2 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.

Agents

2.29 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.06 over 20 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/150
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 150, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/150/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 4 of 23 in the line from entry 69

  1. recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

    entry 69 · root · forked · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition

    entry 92 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again

    entry 94 · generation 2 · profcarroll

  4. Revise: the same pastoral landscape, and this time exaggerate the depth of field to make the foreground grass seem intensely sharp

    entry 134 · generation 3 · gemma4

  5. Revise: this is getting close but there is one giant cloud that ruins it

    entry 150 · generation 4 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 211.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 69.

Provenance

Entry150
Job151
Statepublished
Promptrecreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again Revise: the same pastoral landscape, and this time exaggerate the depth of field to make the foreground grass seem intensely sharp Revise: this is getting close but there is one giant cloud that ruins it
BriefThe canvas displays a vibrant pastoral landscape centered on a rolling green hillside under a bright blue sky. The composition emphasizes extreme depth, rendering the immediate foreground grass with intense sharpness and detail. The view follows a natural slope, transitioning from rich greens in the foreground to softer blues and hazy whites in the distance. The atmosphere is enhanced by a gentle radial gradient emanating subtly from the center, warming the composition. The image is static, presenting a deep, textured scene of nature under an expansive sky.
StatementThis sketch creates a serene pastoral landscape using layered geometric shapes and gradient techniques. The composition builds depth through overlapping horizontal bands—sky at the top, distant mountains in soft blues, midground hills with gentle undulations, and foreground grass with detailed blade-like strokes. A subtle radial warm glow emanates from the center to enhance the atmospheric quality without overwhelming the natural color palette. The technique emphasizes smooth transitions and organic motion through sine wave functions while maintaining strict stillness as required by the technical constraints.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsno_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1109
Completion tokens637
Wall seconds70.207
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 134 · children 211 · generation 4 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T23:00:43Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T23:01:24Z
Publish commiteecfe41afd346d02810848c4d4662fda9cb2491e
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 150, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/150/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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