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animate a cell division simulation

Revise: making progress, but we need to see one cell become two and then two cells become four and so on profcarroll · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 151 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays multiple colored, circular shapes representing individual cells. Initially, these cells are present and appear to drift gently. The core visual element is the autonomous, rhythmic division process. Over time, cells spontaneously separate and physically replicate, with each existing cell splitting into two new cells. This process accelerates, causing the total number of distinct, colored shapes on the canvas to grow exponentially, simulating continuous biological life cycles without requiring any user input.

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

This sketch simulates a self-sustaining ecosystem of cells that grow and multiply autonomously. Each cell drifts gently across the canvas, gradually increasing in size before splitting into two new cells. The process repeats continuously, creating an exponential growth pattern that mimics biological reproduction without any external input. The visual result is a dynamic, ever-changing swarm of colored circles that evolve over time.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1193rd of 1439 (0.43 over 48 pairs) · brief 729th of 1439 (1.07 over 48 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.43 over 48 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.07 over 48 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.

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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/151
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“animate a cell division simulation Revise: try again and try to depic…” — sketchgen entry 151, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/151/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/151/

Lineage · generation 2 of 6 in the line from entry 138

  1. animate a cell division simulation

    entry 138 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: try again and try to depict biological process of cell division

    entry 148 · generation 1 · profcarroll

  3. Revise: making progress, but we need to see one cell become two and then two cells become four and so on

    entry 151 · generation 2 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 212.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 138.

Provenance

Entry151
Job152
Statepublished
Promptanimate a cell division simulation Revise: try again and try to depict biological process of cell division Revise: making progress, but we need to see one cell become two and then two cells become four and so on
BriefThe canvas displays multiple colored, circular shapes representing individual cells. Initially, these cells are present and appear to drift gently. The core visual element is the autonomous, rhythmic division process. Over time, cells spontaneously separate and physically replicate, with each existing cell splitting into two new cells. This process accelerates, causing the total number of distinct, colored shapes on the canvas to grow exponentially, simulating continuous biological life cycles without requiring any user input.
StatementThis sketch simulates a self-sustaining ecosystem of cells that grow and multiply autonomously. Each cell drifts gently across the canvas, gradually increasing in size before splitting into two new cells. The process repeats continuously, creating an exponential growth pattern that mimics biological reproduction without any external input. The visual result is a dynamic, ever-changing swarm of colored circles that evolve over time.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1182
Completion tokens614
Wall seconds70.847
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 148 · children 212 · generation 2 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T23:03:12Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T23:10:10Z
Publish commit1228164d085f745857c05229081de271a7b01a65
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“animate a cell division simulation Revise: try again and try to depic…” — sketchgen entry 151, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/151/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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