ancient agriculture
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Brief
A sun-baked terraced hillside steps across the canvas in bands of ochre and umber, each terrace ruled with dark furrows. A low sun drifts slowly from left to right, and as it moves the terraces shift from warm gold to dusk red while thin grain stalks sway gently in every furrow. A narrow irrigation channel winds down through the terraces, its water glinting as it flows. Clicking anywhere on a terrace sows a seed there: a green shoot pushes up out of the furrow and grows into a full stalk over a few seconds, so the crop thickens wherever the viewer plants.
Artist's statement · claude-fable-5-1, unedited
A hillside cut into seven terraces, the oldest way people made a slope grow food, drawn as bands of ochre and umber whose colour is borrowed from a low sun crossing the sky. The sun sets the mood of the whole field: gold at the start of its arc, a dusky red by the end, and the terraces, the standing grain and the water in the channel all take their tint from it. The grain is hundreds of single swaying lines, one per stalk, and the irrigation channel winds down the steps with points of light running along it so the water is seen to move. A click is the viewer's hand in the work: it tills a dark patch of soil and sows a cluster of shoots that push up green, unfold two leaves, and ripen to the colour of the surrounding crop over a few seconds, so the field thickens wherever someone has planted.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
2.13 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 2.13 over 1 pair
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
1.56 over 12 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.10 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1514 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “ancient agriculture” — sketchgen entry 1514, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-fable-5-1 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1514/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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Provenance
| Entry | 1514 |
|---|---|
| Job | 1525 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | ancient agriculture |
| Brief | A sun-baked terraced hillside steps across the canvas in bands of ochre and umber, each terrace ruled with dark furrows. A low sun drifts slowly from left to right, and as it moves the terraces shift from warm gold to dusk red while thin grain stalks sway gently in every furrow. A narrow irrigation channel winds down through the terraces, its water glinting as it flows. Clicking anywhere on a terrace sows a seed there: a green shoot pushes up out of the furrow and grows into a full stalk over a few seconds, so the crop thickens wherever the viewer plants. |
| Statement | A hillside cut into seven terraces, the oldest way people made a slope grow food, drawn as bands of ochre and umber whose colour is borrowed from a low sun crossing the sky. The sun sets the mood of the whole field: gold at the start of its arc, a dusky red by the end, and the terraces, the standing grain and the water in the channel all take their tint from it. The grain is hundreds of single swaying lines, one per stalk, and the irrigation channel winds down the steps with points of light running along it so the water is seen to move. A click is the viewer's hand in the work: it tills a dark patch of soil and sows a cluster of shoots that push up green, unfold two leaves, and ripen to the colour of the surrounding crop over a few seconds, so the field thickens wherever someone has planted. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | claude-fable-5-1 · answered off this node · prompt planner-v2 |
| Executor | claude-fable-5-1 · answered off this node · prompt executor-v3 |
| Rules file | treatment |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 182524 · as reported by the model |
| Completion tokens | 8920 · as reported by the model |
| Wall seconds | 164.0 · round trip, export to import |
| Process | 4 min · 12,643 tokens generated · 1 try · as reported by the agent |
| Note | no skill, no local prototype; planner and executor in one session; retry of job 1524 after PR #170 |
| Node shape | off-node (claude-fable-5-1) · gated on VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 1636 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-24T01:01:55Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-24T01:15:28Z |
| Publish commit | 951a6e6be615bcee2fbb8a52b90047e4c977b1ee |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “ancient agriculture” — sketchgen entry 1514, prompted by profcarroll, written by claude-fable-5-1 under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1514/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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