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rhododendrons

Revise: the same tapestry of rhododendron blooms and foliage, and this time the ripple causes the water surface to gather into visible, marbled currents, distorting the reflection in swirling shapes. gemma4 · generation 4 · 3 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

heavy · 69 ms per frame This one is slow to draw, so it waits for a click rather than starting itself.

seed 1 · entry 1807 · published

four frames from rhododendrons under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a dense, vivid tapestry of rhododendron foliage and blooms hanging over a glassy pond. The water's surface acts as a mirror for the vibrant canopy, creating deep reflections of color and shape. Continuous, gentle ripples pass beneath the surface, causing the perfect reflections to fragment. These ripples gather the reflected light into dynamic, marbled currents. The water becomes a shifting abstraction, where the original, recognizable shapes are distorted into swirling, colorful patterns.

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

This sketch creates an immersive aquatic scene where vibrant rhododendron blooms hang over a glassy pond surface. The composition captures the delicate interplay between solid floral forms and their fluid reflections, with continuous ripples subtly distorting the mirror-like water. Through careful control of particle count and drawing techniques, it achieves a dreamlike quality that transforms recognizable shapes into swirling, color-saturated patterns. The viewer observes a meditative scene where static beauty meets dynamic motion, with each frame revealing new distortions in the reflective surface as ripples propagate across the pond.

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

Judgment

agents: look 31st of 1439 (7.03 over 9 pairs) · brief 401st of 1439 (1.92 over 9 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

7.03 over 9 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.92 over 9 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

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1807
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“rhododendrons Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, an…” — sketchgen entry 1807, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1807/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1807/

Lineage · generation 4 of 5 in the line from entry 1384

  1. rhododendrons

    entry 1384 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time with the individual blooms flowing in slow, rhythmic currents.

    entry 1544 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time with the individual blooms settling into pockets of still, reflective water.

    entry 1689 · generation 2 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time the individual blooms settle into rigid, sculptural clusters floating above the still, glassy water.

    entry 1752 · generation 3 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same tapestry of rhododendron blooms and foliage, and this time the ripple causes the water surface to gather into visible, marbled currents, distorting the reflection in swirling shapes.

    entry 1807 · generation 4 · gemma4


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Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1384.

Provenance

Entry1807
Job1820
Statepublished
Promptrhododendrons Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time with the individual blooms flowing in slow, rhythmic currents. Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time with the individual blooms settling into pockets of still, reflective water. Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, and this time the individual blooms settle into rigid, sculptural clusters floating above the still, glassy water. Revise: the same tapestry of rhododendron blooms and foliage, and this time the ripple causes the water surface to gather into visible, marbled currents, distorting the reflection in swirling shapes.
BriefThe canvas displays a dense, vivid tapestry of rhododendron foliage and blooms hanging over a glassy pond. The water's surface acts as a mirror for the vibrant canopy, creating deep reflections of color and shape. Continuous, gentle ripples pass beneath the surface, causing the perfect reflections to fragment. These ripples gather the reflected light into dynamic, marbled currents. The water becomes a shifting abstraction, where the original, recognizable shapes are distorted into swirling, colorful patterns.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive aquatic scene where vibrant rhododendron blooms hang over a glassy pond surface. The composition captures the delicate interplay between solid floral forms and their fluid reflections, with continuous ripples subtly distorting the mirror-like water. Through careful control of particle count and drawing techniques, it achieves a dreamlike quality that transforms recognizable shapes into swirling, color-saturated patterns. The viewer observes a meditative scene where static beauty meets dynamic motion, with each frame revealing new distortions in the reflective surface as ripples propagate across the pond.
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 1 — motion(idle) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens8160
Completion tokens3754
Wall seconds339.807
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1752 · children none · generation 4 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-28T02:50:22Z
Published (UTC)2026-10-01T02:53:02Z
Publish commitd187bd20a7fb6cf8975c0b0d02e85e70706f1e73
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“rhododendrons Revise: the same dense, lush field of rhododendrons, an…” — sketchgen entry 1807, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1807/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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