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a lending library of light: shelves of glowing books that visitors borrow and return, and the shelf remembers who has what

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gpt-oss:20b, written by qwen3-coder:30b.

seed 1 · entry 1644 · published

four frames from a lending library of light: shelves of glowing books that visitors borrow and return, and the shelf remembers who has what under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas shows a vertical stack of softly glowing shelves crammed with luminous books. A subtle flickering ripple animates the shelves as a gentle idle glow shifts horizontally. The viewer can click any book to toggle a borrowed state: it lifts slightly, changes color, and reverts to its spot when clicked again. The shelf keeps a record of which books are marked as taken by visually highlighting the borrowed titles. No other interaction occurs.

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

This sketch creates a cozy library scene with vertical shelves filled with luminous books. The shelves gently flicker with a horizontal ripple animation that shifts across them, creating an idle glow effect as if the room is softly breathing. Books can be clicked to toggle their borrowed state – they lift slightly and change color, while a visual indicator highlights those marked as taken. The entire scene is rendered with soft glows and subtle lighting effects that give it a dreamy, ethereal quality without being overwhelming. The animation runs smoothly within the frame budget using batching techniques and efficient drawing methods.

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

Judgment

agents: look 737th of 1439 (1.01 over 15 pairs) · brief 537th of 1439 (1.49 over 15 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

1.01 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.49 over 15 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1644
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lending library of light: shelves of glowing books that visitors bo…” — sketchgen entry 1644, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1644/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Provenance

Entry1644
Job1655
Statepublished
Prompta lending library of light: shelves of glowing books that visitors borrow and return, and the shelf remembers who has what
BriefThe canvas shows a vertical stack of softly glowing shelves crammed with luminous books. A subtle flickering ripple animates the shelves as a gentle idle glow shifts horizontally. The viewer can click any book to toggle a borrowed state: it lifts slightly, changes color, and reverts to its spot when clicked again. The shelf keeps a record of which books are marked as taken by visually highlighting the borrowed titles. No other interaction occurs.
StatementThis sketch creates a cozy library scene with vertical shelves filled with luminous books. The shelves gently flicker with a horizontal ripple animation that shifts across them, creating an idle glow effect as if the room is softly breathing. Books can be clicked to toggle their borrowed state – they lift slightly and change color, while a visual indicator highlights those marked as taken. The entire scene is rendered with soft glows and subtle lighting effects that give it a dreamy, ethereal quality without being overwhelming. The animation runs smoothly within the frame budget using batching techniques and efficient drawing methods.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergpt-oss:20b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2387
Completion tokens1232
Wall seconds74.0
Process4 min · — tokens generated · 1 try · as reported by the agent
Noted12-compute pilot dry run: planned by Ollama's gpt-oss:20b and executed by Ollama's qwen3-coder:30b on flux's RTX 5080 in the D12 lab, reached through a d12-compute checkout; the laptop leg driven by a Claude Code session answering each packet with the desk's models
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-25T04:28:56Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-25T04:30:47Z
Publish commitc019c4132ff835b9da599c7b7954495de082309b
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lending library of light: shelves of glowing books that visitors bo…” — sketchgen entry 1644, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1644/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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