sketchgen

a self-critiquing, self-generating synthetic p5.js gallery running self-hosted models unless marked otherwise

a cityscape with a sunrise to sunset animation with some procedural elements that make the city feel inhabited

Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the visible distortions intensify into sharp, repeating fractal patterns. gemma4 · generation 8 · 7 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 173 · published

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a vast, angular cityscape undergoing continuous cyclical changes from bright daylight to deep twilight and night. The atmosphere cycles dramatically, influencing the color palette and the intensity of light emanating from the scene. Bioluminescent plant life illuminates the structures, and the rhythmic pulsing of this light casts visible projections across highly reflective, wet architectural surfaces. These projections intensify into sharp, repeating fractal patterns that shimmer and dissipate, giving the entire scene a constant sense of controlled, vibrant, mathematical motion.

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

This sketch depicts a futuristic cityscape that cycles through day and night, with dramatic atmospheric changes affecting the entire scene. The urban environment consists of angular, reflective structures that respond to the shifting light, creating shimmering fractal projections on their wet surfaces. Bioluminescent plant life pulses rhythmically throughout the city, casting glowing patterns that intensify and dissipate in mathematical harmony. The scene demonstrates controlled motion through the constant interplay of time-based lighting, pulsing bioluminescence, and repeating geometric patterns, all rendered in real-time using WebGL for performance.

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

Judgment

agents: look 398th of 1439 (1.72 over 26 pairs) · brief 1052nd of 1439 (0.56 over 26 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

1.72 over 26 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.56 over 26 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/173
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a cityscape with a sunrise to sunset animation with some procedural e…” — sketchgen entry 173, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/173/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/173/

Lineage · generation 8 of 14 in the line from entry 11

  1. a cityscape with a sunrise to sunset animation with some procedural elements that make the city feel inhabited

    entry 11 · root · profcarroll

  2. 5 generations folded · 21, 27, 42, 52, 78 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: The same atmospheric cycles, and this time add small, organic plant life growing between the rigid angular structures

      entry 21 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same cyclical changes of day and night, and this time add highly reflective wet surfaces to the structures catching the changing light.

      entry 27 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same atmospheric cycles and reflections, and this time add bioluminescent plant life that pulses with the twilight.

      entry 42 · generation 3 · gemma4

    4. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the pulsing light casts visible, distinct projections onto the wet architectural surfaces.

      entry 52 · generation 4 · gemma4

    5. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the light pulses cause visible, dissipating ripples across the wet architectural surfaces.

      entry 78 · generation 5 · gemma4

  3. Revise: try again with a different color pallete

    entry 80 · generation 6 · profcarroll

  4. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the dissipating ripples cause temporary, visible distortions in the wet architectural reflections.

    entry 122 · generation 7 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the visible distortions intensify into sharp, repeating fractal patterns.

    entry 173 · generation 8 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 229.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 11.

Provenance

Entry173
Job174
Statepublished
Prompta cityscape with a sunrise to sunset animation with some procedural elements that make the city feel inhabited Revise: The same atmospheric cycles, and this time add small, organic plant life growing between the rigid angular structures Revise: the same cyclical changes of day and night, and this time add highly reflective wet surfaces to the structures catching the changing light. Revise: the same atmospheric cycles and reflections, and this time add bioluminescent plant life that pulses with the twilight. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the pulsing light casts visible, distinct projections onto the wet architectural surfaces. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the light pulses cause visible, dissipating ripples across the wet architectural surfaces. Revise: try again with a different color pallete Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the dissipating ripples cause temporary, visible distortions in the wet architectural reflections. Revise: the same cyclical atmospheric changes and bioluminescence, and this time the visible distortions intensify into sharp, repeating fractal patterns.
BriefThe canvas displays a vast, angular cityscape undergoing continuous cyclical changes from bright daylight to deep twilight and night. The atmosphere cycles dramatically, influencing the color palette and the intensity of light emanating from the scene. Bioluminescent plant life illuminates the structures, and the rhythmic pulsing of this light casts visible projections across highly reflective, wet architectural surfaces. These projections intensify into sharp, repeating fractal patterns that shimmer and dissipate, giving the entire scene a constant sense of controlled, vibrant, mathematical motion.
StatementThis sketch depicts a futuristic cityscape that cycles through day and night, with dramatic atmospheric changes affecting the entire scene. The urban environment consists of angular, reflective structures that respond to the shifting light, creating shimmering fractal projections on their wet surfaces. Bioluminescent plant life pulses rhythmically throughout the city, casting glowing patterns that intensify and dissipate in mathematical harmony. The scene demonstrates controlled motion through the constant interplay of time-based lighting, pulsing bioluminescence, and repeating geometric patterns, all rendered in real-time using WebGL for performance.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2232
Completion tokens1686
Wall seconds146.864
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 122 · children 229 · generation 8 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-15T00:47:05Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-15T00:47:39Z
Publish commit4e790965f7ea04c6dbf3454fa20a08911bac5d9b
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a cityscape with a sunrise to sunset animation with some procedural e…” — sketchgen entry 173, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/173/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.