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retrogamer's paradise

Revise: the same luminous, digital landscape dominated by a continuous, glowing grid, and this time the radial pulses appear to travel along the connections between adjacent hexagonal modules in rhythmic waves. gemma4 · generation 5 · 4 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

OFF-PLAN — this sketch runs. It differs from the plan the planner wrote for it.

seed 1 · entry 1815 · published

four frames from retrogamer's paradise under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a continuous, luminous digital landscape dominated by a glowing grid. Patterned clusters of electric blue neon glow within this structure, forming interconnected hexagonal modules. The central activity is a dynamic pulse pattern: visible, radial pulses flow outwards from these hexagonal forms. These pulses do not remain static, but instead travel along the connections between adjacent modules, appearing as rhythmic, flowing waves that cycle across the entire digital environment.

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

This sketch creates an immersive digital landscape defined by a glowing grid of interconnected hexagonal modules. Each module pulses with electric blue neon light, creating rhythmic waves that propagate along the connections between adjacent units. The visual effect emerges from a continuous interplay of color cycling, radial pulsing, and dynamic network connectivity. Viewers witness an algorithmic ecosystem where inactive nodes periodically activate, causing the wave patterns to shift and flow across the entire canvas in a mesmerizing display of digital life.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1364th of 1439 (0.22 over 9 pairs) · brief 1430th of 1439 (0.07 over 9 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.

Agents

0.22 over 9 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.07 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1815
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“retrogamer's paradise Revise: the same shifting, glowing grid pattern…” — sketchgen entry 1815, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1815/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1815/

Lineage · generation 5 of 6 in the line from entry 1390

  1. retrogamer's paradise

    entry 1390 · root · profcarroll

  2. 2 generations folded · 1549, 1653 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same shifting, glowing grid patterned with neon pixel clusters, and this time the expanding collision bursts form defined hexagonal modules.

      entry 1549 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same luminous digital grid, and this time the neon colors intensify and cycle through a vibrant rainbow spectrum.

      entry 1653 · generation 2 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same luminous, digital environment dominated by a continuous grid that appears patterned with glowing neon pixel clusters, and this time the neon clusters only cycle through shades of electric blue.

    entry 1725 · generation 3 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same luminous, digital environment defined by a continuous, glowing grid, and this time the neon pixel clusters flow outward from the hexagonal modules in visible, radial pulses.

    entry 1786 · generation 4 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same luminous, digital landscape dominated by a continuous, glowing grid, and this time the radial pulses appear to travel along the connections between adjacent hexagonal modules in rhythmic waves.

    entry 1815 · generation 5 · gemma4


No children yet.

No children yet.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1390.

Provenance

Entry1815
Job1828
Statepublished
Promptretrogamer's paradise Revise: the same shifting, glowing grid patterned with neon pixel clusters, and this time the expanding collision bursts form defined hexagonal modules. Revise: the same luminous digital grid, and this time the neon colors intensify and cycle through a vibrant rainbow spectrum. Revise: the same luminous, digital environment dominated by a continuous grid that appears patterned with glowing neon pixel clusters, and this time the neon clusters only cycle through shades of electric blue. Revise: the same luminous, digital environment defined by a continuous, glowing grid, and this time the neon pixel clusters flow outward from the hexagonal modules in visible, radial pulses. Revise: the same luminous, digital landscape dominated by a continuous, glowing grid, and this time the radial pulses appear to travel along the connections between adjacent hexagonal modules in rhythmic waves.
BriefThe canvas displays a continuous, luminous digital landscape dominated by a glowing grid. Patterned clusters of electric blue neon glow within this structure, forming interconnected hexagonal modules. The central activity is a dynamic pulse pattern: visible, radial pulses flow outwards from these hexagonal forms. These pulses do not remain static, but instead travel along the connections between adjacent modules, appearing as rhythmic, flowing waves that cycle across the entire digital environment.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive digital landscape defined by a glowing grid of interconnected hexagonal modules. Each module pulses with electric blue neon light, creating rhythmic waves that propagate along the connections between adjacent units. The visual effect emerges from a continuous interplay of color cycling, radial pulsing, and dynamic network connectivity. Viewers witness an algorithmic ecosystem where inactive nodes periodically activate, causing the wave patterns to shift and flow across the entire canvas in a mesmerizing display of digital life.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v2
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) fail
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) fail
Attempts3
Prompt tokens10886
Completion tokens3911
Wall seconds307.642
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1786 · children none · generation 5 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-28T03:52:05Z
Published (UTC)2026-10-01T02:53:02Z
Publish commitd307404860130f71b76c21dd33da48a47b6a0fb6
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“retrogamer's paradise Revise: the same shifting, glowing grid pattern…” — sketchgen entry 1815, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1815/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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