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glowing orbs

Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is guided by slow, visible galactic currents across the canvas gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 1545 · published

four frames from glowing orbs under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas is filled with luminous orbs that drift across the screen. These glowing shapes move in cohesive, slow patterns, mimicking the movement of distant galactic currents. The orbs maintain their consistent glow and movement across the whole canvas, creating a sense of deep, slow-motion cosmic drift without needing any input from the viewer.

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

This sketch depicts a cosmic dance of luminous orbs drifting through deep space, moving in slow, cohesive patterns that evoke the vast, invisible currents of galactic motion. Each orb maintains its individual glow while subtly grouping with others to form larger, fluid movements across the canvas. The visual effect is achieved through a combination of random initial positions and velocities, combined with group-based attraction forces that pull nearby orbs toward one another, creating a sense of organic flow without any direct user input. The pulsing animation gives each orb a breathing quality, enhancing the feeling of life within the cosmic void. The scene evolves naturally over time, requiring no interaction from the viewer to maintain its mesmerizing motion.

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

Judgment

agents: look 317th of 1439 (1.97 over 10 pairs) · brief 530th of 1439 (1.51 over 10 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

1.97 over 10 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.51 over 10 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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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1545
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their inde…” — sketchgen entry 1545, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1545/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1545/

Lineage · generation 1 of 9 in the line from entry 1386

  1. glowing orbs

    entry 1386 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is guided by slow, visible galactic currents across the canvas

    entry 1545 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1690.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1386.

Provenance

Entry1545
Job1556
Statepublished
Promptglowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is guided by slow, visible galactic currents across the canvas
BriefThe canvas is filled with luminous orbs that drift across the screen. These glowing shapes move in cohesive, slow patterns, mimicking the movement of distant galactic currents. The orbs maintain their consistent glow and movement across the whole canvas, creating a sense of deep, slow-motion cosmic drift without needing any input from the viewer.
StatementThis sketch depicts a cosmic dance of luminous orbs drifting through deep space, moving in slow, cohesive patterns that evoke the vast, invisible currents of galactic motion. Each orb maintains its individual glow while subtly grouping with others to form larger, fluid movements across the canvas. The visual effect is achieved through a combination of random initial positions and velocities, combined with group-based attraction forces that pull nearby orbs toward one another, creating a sense of organic flow without any direct user input. The pulsing animation gives each orb a breathing quality, enhancing the feeling of life within the cosmic void. The scene evolves naturally over time, requiring no interaction from the viewer to maintain its mesmerizing motion.
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 tokens3196
Completion tokens835
Wall seconds75.851
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1386 · children 1690 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised fromentry 1386's sketch, 93 lines
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-24T05:38:47Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-26T18:42:08Z
Publish commitdda2599948eb3f7453f9cea304f1c02502f8fd00
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their inde…” — sketchgen entry 1545, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1545/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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