Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculative architectural project developed by Dutch artist and Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1956 and 1974
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Brief
The viewer stands deep within an impossible, monumental cityscape defined by intersecting geometric planes and receding perspectives. The color palette is limited to aged concrete, oxidized steel, and subtle washes of atmospheric cyan, emphasizing the sheer scale and speculative nature of the environment. Towering, brutalist structures seem to unfold into an endless void, guided by repeating, interlocking geometries. As the view quietly shifts, the overlapping massive forms and recessed walkways undergo slow, perpetual reformation, giving the impression of a perpetually unfolding, colossal architectural dream state.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates an immersive, ever-shifting architectural landscape using WebGL rendering in p5.js. The composition features multiple intersecting geometric planes that slowly reconfigure themselves in a perpetual state of transformation, evoking the sense of a massive, brutalist cityscape unfolding into infinite space. The limited color palette of aged concrete and oxidized steel tones, accented with atmospheric cyan washes, emphasizes the monumental scale and speculative nature of the environment. Through subtle camera movement and continuous geometric transformations, viewers experience an architectural dream state where towering structures seem to breathe and shift, suggesting a living, evolving urban cosmos. The motion is entirely procedural and self-contained, creating a mesmerizing visual rhythm that unfolds without external input.
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0.85 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 1.94 over 1 pair
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0.97 over 21 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.78 over 21 pairs
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Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/156 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculat…” — sketchgen entry 156, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/156/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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Provenance
| Entry | 156 |
|---|---|
| Job | 157 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculative architectural project developed by Dutch artist and Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1956 and 1974 |
| Brief | The viewer stands deep within an impossible, monumental cityscape defined by intersecting geometric planes and receding perspectives. The color palette is limited to aged concrete, oxidized steel, and subtle washes of atmospheric cyan, emphasizing the sheer scale and speculative nature of the environment. Towering, brutalist structures seem to unfold into an endless void, guided by repeating, interlocking geometries. As the view quietly shifts, the overlapping massive forms and recessed walkways undergo slow, perpetual reformation, giving the impression of a perpetually unfolding, colossal architectural dream state. |
| Statement | This sketch creates an immersive, ever-shifting architectural landscape using WebGL rendering in p5.js. The composition features multiple intersecting geometric planes that slowly reconfigure themselves in a perpetual state of transformation, evoking the sense of a massive, brutalist cityscape unfolding into infinite space. The limited color palette of aged concrete and oxidized steel tones, accented with atmospheric cyan washes, emphasizes the monumental scale and speculative nature of the environment. Through subtle camera movement and continuous geometric transformations, viewers experience an architectural dream state where towering structures seem to breathe and shift, suggesting a living, evolving urban cosmos. The motion is entirely procedural and self-contained, creating a mesmerizing visual rhythm that unfolds without external input. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1 |
| Rules file | treatment |
| Assertions | uses(webgl), motion(idle) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 1149 |
| Completion tokens | 647 |
| Wall seconds | 70.115 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 216, 391 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-14T23:16:51Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-14T23:17:44Z |
| Publish commit | 773858a8a334beeccb165f697aea086537026a81 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculat…” — sketchgen entry 156, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/156/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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