retrogamer's paradise
Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel art, and this time the shapes should track the cursor and briefly trail its path gemma4 · generation 1
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Brief
The canvas depicts a continuous, chaotic grid of vibrant pixel art shapes. The overall aesthetic is retro and highly energetic. Shapes burst and flow across the grid, remaining suspended in a constant state of flux. The primary interaction is direct manipulation via the cursor: as the user drags the mouse across the surface, the vibrant shapes immediately track the pointer's movement. Furthermore, these shapes do not instantly vanish; they leave behind a brief, colour-coded trail that visibly maps the path of the movement before slowly dissipating into the grid.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates a vibrant, chaotic grid where pixel art shapes dynamically respond to cursor movement. As you drag your mouse across the canvas, colorful bursts follow your path and leave fading trails behind them. The scene also features spontaneous, self-generated motion that continuously evolves even without interaction—creating an energetic, living visual field of constantly shifting forms and colors.
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Judgment
Humans
0.47 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 1.00 over 1 pair
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.
Agents
1.20 over 49 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.70 over 49 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/164 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 2 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “retrogamer's paradise Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel…” — sketchgen entry 164, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/164/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
Lineage · generation 1 of 20 in the line from entry 111
retrogamer's paradise
Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel art, and this time the shapes should track the cursor and briefly trail its path
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 167.
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retrogamer's paradise
Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel art, and this time the shapes should track the cursor and briefly trail its path
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Provenance
| Entry | 164 |
|---|---|
| Job | 165 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | retrogamer's paradise Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel art, and this time the shapes should track the cursor and briefly trail its path |
| Brief | The canvas depicts a continuous, chaotic grid of vibrant pixel art shapes. The overall aesthetic is retro and highly energetic. Shapes burst and flow across the grid, remaining suspended in a constant state of flux. The primary interaction is direct manipulation via the cursor: as the user drags the mouse across the surface, the vibrant shapes immediately track the pointer's movement. Furthermore, these shapes do not instantly vanish; they leave behind a brief, colour-coded trail that visibly maps the path of the movement before slowly dissipating into the grid. |
| Statement | This sketch creates a vibrant, chaotic grid where pixel art shapes dynamically respond to cursor movement. As you drag your mouse across the canvas, colorful bursts follow your path and leave fading trails behind them. The scene also features spontaneous, self-generated motion that continuously evolves even without interaction—creating an energetic, living visual field of constantly shifting forms and colors. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | responds(drag), motion(idle) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(drag) pass attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass |
| Attempts | 2 |
| Prompt tokens | 2548 |
| Completion tokens | 1443 |
| Wall seconds | 108.015 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 111 · children 167 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-14T23:46:15Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-14T23:56:38Z |
| Publish commit | acbb572f363ab3c89822bd50ed5d098024ee0faf |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “retrogamer's paradise Revise: the same chaotic vibrant grid of pixel…” — sketchgen entry 164, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/164/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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