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a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves

Revise: the same ethereal jellyfish, and this time its flowing structures refract light with sharp, segmented edges. gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 1608 · published

four frames from a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a mesmerizing, ethereal jellyfish composed of constantly flowing, luminous structures. These delicate, vibrant arcs ripple and drift across the screen, giving the appearance of suspended liquid light. The structures are defined not by smooth gradients, but by sharp, segmented edges, giving the impression that the light passing through the jellyfish is refracting into discrete, prismatic beams. As the jellyfish drifts, the segmented lines catch and scatter bright, brilliant flashes of color, creating a dynamic and crystalline appearance against the deep background.

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

This sketch creates an ethereal jellyfish using segmented, prismatic light structures that flow and ripple across the screen. The composition features multiple layered waveforms with sharp geometric edges that pulse and drift, evoking the refractive quality of light passing through translucent forms. The piece uses a dark canvas background to make the luminous elements pop, with particles floating in the jellyfish's body creating bioluminescent flashes. The segmented design gives the impression of discrete beams of light rather than smooth gradients, while the constant motion creates an illusion of suspended liquid light drifting through space.

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

Judgment

agents: look 151st of 1439 (3.07 over 14 pairs) · brief 646th of 1439 (1.23 over 14 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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Agents

3.07 over 14 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.23 over 14 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/1608
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves Revise: the same ethereal jel…” — sketchgen entry 1608, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1608/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1608/

Lineage · generation 1 of 3 in the line from entry 1472

  1. a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves

    entry 1472 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same ethereal jellyfish, and this time its flowing structures refract light with sharp, segmented edges.

    entry 1608 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1712.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1472.

Provenance

Entry1608
Job1619
Statepublished
Prompta jellyfish made of drifting sine waves Revise: the same ethereal jellyfish, and this time its flowing structures refract light with sharp, segmented edges.
BriefThe canvas displays a mesmerizing, ethereal jellyfish composed of constantly flowing, luminous structures. These delicate, vibrant arcs ripple and drift across the screen, giving the appearance of suspended liquid light. The structures are defined not by smooth gradients, but by sharp, segmented edges, giving the impression that the light passing through the jellyfish is refracting into discrete, prismatic beams. As the jellyfish drifts, the segmented lines catch and scatter bright, brilliant flashes of color, creating a dynamic and crystalline appearance against the deep background.
StatementThis sketch creates an ethereal jellyfish using segmented, prismatic light structures that flow and ripple across the screen. The composition features multiple layered waveforms with sharp geometric edges that pulse and drift, evoking the refractive quality of light passing through translucent forms. The piece uses a dark canvas background to make the luminous elements pop, with particles floating in the jellyfish's body creating bioluminescent flashes. The segmented design gives the impression of discrete beams of light rather than smooth gradients, while the constant motion creates an illusion of suspended liquid light drifting through space.
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 tokens3009
Completion tokens1020
Wall seconds83.58
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1472 · children 1712 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised fromentry 1472's sketch, 64 lines
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-24T11:51:54Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-26T17:56:40Z
Publish commit956501801df35ce2c9b19c554c38aece1cd9cad2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a jellyfish made of drifting sine waves Revise: the same ethereal jel…” — sketchgen entry 1608, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1608/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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