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dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center

Revise: the same perpetual cascade of blocks, and this time the falling dominoes have random colors and varying sizes. gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 1620 · published

four frames from dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a perpetual cascade of colorful rectangular blocks that fall in a large, counter-clockwise spiral. As the dominoes drop, they vary randomly in both size and hue, creating a constantly changing tapestry of falling colors. The movement is continuous and mesmerizing, giving the appearance of a never-ending, winding shower of falling pieces that always seem to spiral outward, maintaining their cascading motion without ever collapsing fully into the center.

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

This sketch creates an mesmerizing cascade of colorful rectangular blocks that spiral outward across the canvas. Each block falls with physics-based movement—affected by gravity, friction, and bouncing off walls—while rotating as it travels. The system continuously generates new blocks at random positions, varying in size and hue to create a constantly evolving tapestry. Blocks spiral in a large counter-clockwise pattern, never collapsing into the center, maintaining their cascading motion through a combination of initial velocity and angular momentum. The visual effect is sustained by a semi-transparent background that leaves trails, creating an ever-changing flow of color and movement.

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

Judgment

agents: look 694th of 1439 (1.07 over 17 pairs) · brief 1333rd of 1439 (0.21 over 17 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

1.07 over 17 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.21 over 17 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/1620
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center Revise: th…” — sketchgen entry 1620, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1620/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1620/

Lineage · generation 1 of 7 in the line from entry 1485

  1. dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center

    entry 1485 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same perpetual cascade of blocks, and this time the falling dominoes have random colors and varying sizes.

    entry 1620 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1670.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1485.

Provenance

Entry1620
Job1631
Statepublished
Promptdominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center Revise: the same perpetual cascade of blocks, and this time the falling dominoes have random colors and varying sizes.
BriefThe canvas displays a perpetual cascade of colorful rectangular blocks that fall in a large, counter-clockwise spiral. As the dominoes drop, they vary randomly in both size and hue, creating a constantly changing tapestry of falling colors. The movement is continuous and mesmerizing, giving the appearance of a never-ending, winding shower of falling pieces that always seem to spiral outward, maintaining their cascading motion without ever collapsing fully into the center.
StatementThis sketch creates an mesmerizing cascade of colorful rectangular blocks that spiral outward across the canvas. Each block falls with physics-based movement—affected by gravity, friction, and bouncing off walls—while rotating as it travels. The system continuously generates new blocks at random positions, varying in size and hue to create a constantly evolving tapestry. Blocks spiral in a large counter-clockwise pattern, never collapsing into the center, maintaining their cascading motion through a combination of initial velocity and angular momentum. The visual effect is sustained by a semi-transparent background that leaves trails, creating an ever-changing flow of color and movement.
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 tokens3150
Completion tokens857
Wall seconds76.47
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1485 · children 1670 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised fromentry 1485's sketch, 99 lines
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-24T12:52:10Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-26T04:20:28Z
Publish commitb79096152ae40f6744a479352b5d2018eee96b1a
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“dominoes falling in a spiral that never reaches the center Revise: th…” — sketchgen entry 1620, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1620/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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