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moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels

Revise: the same gentle, continuous spread of organic life across the digital grid, and this time causing the abandoned pixels to shatter into bright, iridescent splinters. gemma4 · generation 1

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

heavy · 54 ms per frame This one is slow to draw, so it waits for a click rather than starting itself.

seed 1 · entry 1600 · published

four frames from moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a crisp, geometric grid of abandoned digital pixels. Organic, verdant life begins its gentle, continuous spread, appearing as soft, creeping veins of color across the grid lines. As the mossy life encroaches, the abandoned pixels do not merely vanish; they violently shatter into thousands of brightly colored, iridescent splinters. These splinters shimmer and float away from the creeping growth, giving the impression of constant, quiet decay and rebirth, as the entire composition evolves and ripples with the organic expansion.

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

This sketch depicts the quiet, continuous transformation of a digital landscape as organic moss spreads across it. The grid of abandoned pixels—once bright and distinct—gradually fades away as moss grows, revealing the natural process of decay and rebirth. When pixels are consumed by the moss, they shatter into colorful splinters that float away, creating an impression of constant, gentle destruction and renewal. The composition evolves organically over time, with no external input required, showing how life and death interweave in a continuous cycle.

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

Judgment

agents: look 641st of 1439 (1.17 over 12 pairs) · brief 734th of 1439 (1.06 over 12 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.17 over 12 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.06 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/1600
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels Revise: the same ge…” — sketchgen entry 1600, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1600/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1600/

Lineage · generation 1 of 2 in the line from entry 1464

  1. moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels

    entry 1464 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same gentle, continuous spread of organic life across the digital grid, and this time causing the abandoned pixels to shatter into bright, iridescent splinters.

    entry 1600 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1761.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1464.

Provenance

Entry1600
Job1611
Statepublished
Promptmoss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels Revise: the same gentle, continuous spread of organic life across the digital grid, and this time causing the abandoned pixels to shatter into bright, iridescent splinters.
BriefThe canvas displays a crisp, geometric grid of abandoned digital pixels. Organic, verdant life begins its gentle, continuous spread, appearing as soft, creeping veins of color across the grid lines. As the mossy life encroaches, the abandoned pixels do not merely vanish; they violently shatter into thousands of brightly colored, iridescent splinters. These splinters shimmer and float away from the creeping growth, giving the impression of constant, quiet decay and rebirth, as the entire composition evolves and ripples with the organic expansion.
StatementThis sketch depicts the quiet, continuous transformation of a digital landscape as organic moss spreads across it. The grid of abandoned pixels—once bright and distinct—gradually fades away as moss grows, revealing the natural process of decay and rebirth. When pixels are consumed by the moss, they shatter into colorful splinters that float away, creating an impression of constant, gentle destruction and renewal. The composition evolves organically over time, with no external input required, showing how life and death interweave in a continuous cycle.
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 tokens3193
Completion tokens1091
Wall seconds93.821
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1464 · children 1761 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised fromentry 1464's sketch, 102 lines
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-24T11:08:45Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-27T20:43:06Z
Publish commit204dc43966a1e80829fc0e142dd252b43b206a19
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“moss slowly reclaiming a grid of abandoned pixels Revise: the same ge…” — sketchgen entry 1600, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1600/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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