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a fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view

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

seed 1 · entry 1500 · published

four frames from a fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas shows a vibrant, submerged view seen through the curved surface of glass. The visual field is dominated by blues and greens, featuring distorted shapes, dancing bubbles, and shafts of dappled light penetrating the water. Movement is constant, simulating gentle currents and the slow drift of aquatic flora and unseen fish. The primary features are semi-transparent shapes that ripple and distort as they move across the viewing pane, creating a perpetually dynamic, fluid environment.

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

This sketch simulates an underwater scene viewed through a curved glass surface. Using a combination of semi-transparent bubbles, light shafts, and flowing currents, it creates a sense of depth and motion that mimics the fluid environment of water. The bubbles float slowly upward with gentle distortions, while shafts of light penetrate from above, creating a dappled pattern across the canvas. The color palette emphasizes blues and greens to evoke an aquatic atmosphere, with subtle ripples and highlights adding to the realism of the submerged view. The constant motion without external input satisfies the requirement for autonomous visual change.

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

Judgment

agents: look 409th of 1439 (1.68 over 12 pairs) · brief 625th of 1439 (1.27 over 12 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.68 over 12 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.27 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1500
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view” — sketchgen entry 1500, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1500/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1500/

Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. a fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view

    entry 1500 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1630.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1500.

Provenance

Entry1500
Job1511
Statepublished
Prompta fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view
BriefThe canvas shows a vibrant, submerged view seen through the curved surface of glass. The visual field is dominated by blues and greens, featuring distorted shapes, dancing bubbles, and shafts of dappled light penetrating the water. Movement is constant, simulating gentle currents and the slow drift of aquatic flora and unseen fish. The primary features are semi-transparent shapes that ripple and distort as they move across the viewing pane, creating a perpetually dynamic, fluid environment.
StatementThis sketch simulates an underwater scene viewed through a curved glass surface. Using a combination of semi-transparent bubbles, light shafts, and flowing currents, it creates a sense of depth and motion that mimics the fluid environment of water. The bubbles float slowly upward with gentle distortions, while shafts of light penetrate from above, creating a dappled pattern across the canvas. The color palette emphasizes blues and greens to evoke an aquatic atmosphere, with subtle ripples and highlights adding to the realism of the submerged view. The constant motion without external input satisfies the requirement for autonomous visual change.
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 tokens988
Wall seconds62.38
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1630 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-23T17:09:53Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-24T01:15:28Z
Publish commit94a51a91a2108fd3239a088d428a87f98f1b2fb3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a fishbowl seen from the fish's point of view” — sketchgen entry 1500, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1500/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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