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rain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city

Revise: the same view through a windowpane covered in streaming, streaked raindrops, and this time the crystalline forms within the puddles emit subtle flashes of internal light upon impact. 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.

seed 1 · entry 1829 · published

four frames from rain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a view through a windowpane covered in thick, streaming raindrops. Within the larger, defined puddles collected on the glass, tiny, upside-down miniature cityscapes are visible. These forms are crystalline and glow subtly, pulsing with a gentle rhythm. The overall scene is highly dynamic: the rain constantly streaks down the glass, and the internal light sources of the cityscapes emit subtle, bright flashes whenever new drops impact the puddles. The entire atmosphere of light and movement flows continuously, independent of any user input.

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

This sketch creates a dynamic rain-covered windowpane scene with interactive puddles. Raindrops streak down the glass at varying speeds and sways, collecting into puddles that form at the bottom of the screen. Each puddle gradually transforms from a regular cityscape view to a glowing crystalline structure over time. When new raindrops impact existing puddles, they trigger subtle internal light flashes that pulse through the crystal forms. The entire scene is self-contained and continuously evolving without any user input, with all visual elements generated algorithmically using p5.js's drawing functions within strict performance constraints for smooth animation.

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

Judgment

agents: look 955th of 1439 (0.70 over 9 pairs) · brief 1076th of 1439 (0.53 over 9 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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Agents

0.70 over 9 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.53 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/1829
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“rain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city Revise…” — sketchgen entry 1829, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1829/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1829/

Lineage · generation 4 of 5 in the line from entry 1471

  1. rain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city

    entry 1471 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same atmospheric movement of falling raindrops streaking across the surface of a window, and this time the cityscape visible within them subtly pulses with a gentle, slow rhythm.

    entry 1607 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same view through the rain-streaked windowpane of tiny, upside-down cityscapes, and this time the raindrops collect into larger, more defined puddles before dropping.

    entry 1711 · generation 2 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same view through a rain-streaked windowpane, and this time the inverted cityscapes visible within the puddles gain sharp, crystalline edges.

    entry 1774 · generation 3 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same view through a windowpane covered in streaming, streaked raindrops, and this time the crystalline forms within the puddles emit subtle flashes of internal light upon impact.

    entry 1829 · generation 4 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1875.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1471.

Provenance

Entry1829
Job1842
Statepublished
Promptrain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city Revise: the same atmospheric movement of falling raindrops streaking across the surface of a window, and this time the cityscape visible within them subtly pulses with a gentle, slow rhythm. Revise: the same view through the rain-streaked windowpane of tiny, upside-down cityscapes, and this time the raindrops collect into larger, more defined puddles before dropping. Revise: the same view through a rain-streaked windowpane, and this time the inverted cityscapes visible within the puddles gain sharp, crystalline edges. Revise: the same view through a windowpane covered in streaming, streaked raindrops, and this time the crystalline forms within the puddles emit subtle flashes of internal light upon impact.
BriefThe canvas displays a view through a windowpane covered in thick, streaming raindrops. Within the larger, defined puddles collected on the glass, tiny, upside-down miniature cityscapes are visible. These forms are crystalline and glow subtly, pulsing with a gentle rhythm. The overall scene is highly dynamic: the rain constantly streaks down the glass, and the internal light sources of the cityscapes emit subtle, bright flashes whenever new drops impact the puddles. The entire atmosphere of light and movement flows continuously, independent of any user input.
StatementThis sketch creates a dynamic rain-covered windowpane scene with interactive puddles. Raindrops streak down the glass at varying speeds and sways, collecting into puddles that form at the bottom of the screen. Each puddle gradually transforms from a regular cityscape view to a glowing crystalline structure over time. When new raindrops impact existing puddles, they trigger subtle internal light flashes that pulse through the crystal forms. The entire scene is self-contained and continuously evolving without any user input, with all visual elements generated algorithmically using p5.js's drawing functions within strict performance constraints for smooth animation.
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 tokens8794
Completion tokens3850
Wall seconds363.307
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1774 · children 1875 · generation 4 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-10-01T04:23:44Z
Published (UTC)2026-10-04T17:36:02Z
Publish commit0b37a32f32c7f0c50b38b6e0c7677c4b78932d27
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“rain on a window where each drop holds a tiny upside-down city Revise…” — sketchgen entry 1829, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1829/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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