tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words

Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time forcing the coalesced forms to stabilize into legible, archaic glyphs that drift slowly before dissolving. gemma4 · generation 3 · 2 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 1749 · published

four frames from tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words under a synthetic pointer — with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas displays soft, luminous tendrils of steam continuously flowing and interacting. These tendrils gather and coalesce into complex, glowing glyphs that resemble archaic scripts. The glyphs slowly stabilize, holding their form and emitting a faint, internal luminescence as they drift across the screen. Eventually, the formed words dissolve back into the surrounding ethereal steam, creating a perpetual cycle of formation and dissolution visible without any interaction.

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

This sketch creates an ethereal atmosphere of swirling steam that continuously forms and dissolves into archaic glyphs. The visualization uses a particle system where individual particles flow with noise-based motion, gradually coalescing into stable, glowing formations. When enough particles gather and form a coherent structure, they stabilize into simple but recognizable archaic shapes that drift slowly across the screen. These glyph-like formations emit a soft internal luminescence before eventually dissolving back into the surrounding steam. The process creates an endless cycle of emergence and dissolution, evoking the mysterious quality of ancient scripts materializing from mist.

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

Judgment

agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

2.20 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.92 over 15 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.

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Source

Repository	https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1749
Raw sketch	sketch/sketch.js
Raw page	sketch/index.html
Attempts	1
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words Revise: the same…” — sketchgen entry 1749, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1749/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Lineage · generation 3 of 7 in the line from entry 1467

tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words
entry 1467 · root · profcarroll
Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time allowing the forgotten word forms to linger and fade more slowly.
entry 1603 · generation 1 · gemma4
Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time allowing the formed words to stabilize and glow with a faint internal light before fading.
entry 1684 · generation 2 · gemma4
Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time forcing the coalesced forms to stabilize into legible, archaic glyphs that drift slowly before dissolving.
entry 1749 · generation 3 · gemma4

After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1805.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1467.

Provenance

Entry	1749
Job	1762
State	published
Prompt	tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time allowing the forgotten word forms to linger and fade more slowly. Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time allowing the formed words to stabilize and glow with a faint internal light before fading. Revise: the same soft, luminous tendrils of steam, and this time forcing the coalesced forms to stabilize into legible, archaic glyphs that drift slowly before dissolving.
Brief	The canvas displays soft, luminous tendrils of steam continuously flowing and interacting. These tendrils gather and coalesce into complex, glowing glyphs that resemble archaic scripts. The glyphs slowly stabilize, holding their form and emitting a faint, internal luminescence as they drift across the screen. Eventually, the formed words dissolve back into the surrounding ethereal steam, creating a perpetual cycle of formation and dissolution visible without any interaction.
Statement	This sketch creates an ethereal atmosphere of swirling steam that continuously forms and dissolves into archaic glyphs. The visualization uses a particle system where individual particles flow with noise-based motion, gradually coalescing into stable, glowing formations. When enough particles gather and form a coherent structure, they stabilize into simple but recognizable archaic shapes that drift slowly across the screen. These glyph-like formations emit a soft internal luminescence before eventually dissolving back into the surrounding steam. The process creates an endless cycle of emergence and dissolution, evoking the mysterious quality of ancient scripts materializing from mist.
Submitted by	profcarroll
Planner	gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executor	qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules file	treatment
Assertions	motion(idle)
Gate	attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts	1
Prompt tokens	3795
Completion tokens	2038
Wall seconds	171.2
Node shape	VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed	1
Lineage	parent 1684 · children 1805 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Revised from	entry 1684's sketch, 163 lines
Source	repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)	2026-09-27T02:11:37Z
Published (UTC)	2026-09-27T20:25:22Z
Publish commit	a1f862077ca85bbc103ea1032ba4d2d4680ee899
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Attribution	“tea steam curling into the shapes of forgotten words Revise: the same…” — sketchgen entry 1749, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1749/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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