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glowing orbs

Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas gemma4 · generation 6 · 5 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 1891 · published

four frames from glowing orbs under a synthetic pointer
with the ghost pointer

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Brief

The canvas displays luminous, glowing orbs that continuously drift across the space. As the orbs move, they leave behind faint, ethereal glowing trails. Their movement is not random but is guided by visible, streaming currents that emanate outward from the center of the screen, creating a sense of deep, visible flow across the canvas.

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

This sketch creates a mesmerizing field of luminous orbs that drift across the canvas, guided by invisible currents emanating from the center. Each orb leaves behind a faint, glowing trail as it moves, creating an ethereal sense of continuous motion. The orbs follow a subtle radial flow pattern that pulls them outward from the center while adding swirling motion for organic movement. The visual effect is enhanced with pulsing glows and soft trails that fade gradually, giving the impression of deep, flowing currents across the entire canvas space.

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

Judgment

agents: look 773rd of 1439 (0.93 over 5 pairs) · brief 434th of 1439 (1.75 over 5 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.93 over 5 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.75 over 5 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/1891
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their inde…” — sketchgen entry 1891, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1891/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1891/

Lineage · generation 6 of 9 in the line from entry 1386

  1. glowing orbs

    entry 1386 · root · profcarroll

  2. 3 generations folded · 1545, 1690, 1753 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is guided by slow, visible galactic currents across the canvas

      entry 1545 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas

      entry 1690 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is governed by visible spiraling currents emanating from the center of the canvas

      entry 1753 · generation 3 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas

    entry 1808 · generation 4 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their drift is guided by visible, non-repeating currents that stream outward from the center of the canvas.

    entry 1854 · generation 5 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas

    entry 1891 · generation 6 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1909.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1386.

Provenance

Entry1891
Job1904
Statepublished
Promptglowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is guided by slow, visible galactic currents across the canvas Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their independent drift is governed by visible spiraling currents emanating from the center of the canvas Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their drift is guided by visible, non-repeating currents that stream outward from the center of the canvas. Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time they leave faintly visible glowing trails behind them as they drift across the canvas
BriefThe canvas displays luminous, glowing orbs that continuously drift across the space. As the orbs move, they leave behind faint, ethereal glowing trails. Their movement is not random but is guided by visible, streaming currents that emanate outward from the center of the screen, creating a sense of deep, visible flow across the canvas.
StatementThis sketch creates a mesmerizing field of luminous orbs that drift across the canvas, guided by invisible currents emanating from the center. Each orb leaves behind a faint, glowing trail as it moves, creating an ethereal sense of continuous motion. The orbs follow a subtle radial flow pattern that pulls them outward from the center while adding swirling motion for organic movement. The visual effect is enhanced with pulsing glows and soft trails that fade gradually, giving the impression of deep, flowing currents across the entire canvas space.
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 tokens7602
Completion tokens2190
Wall seconds204.208
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/96
Seed1
Lineageparent 1854 · children 1909 · generation 6 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-10-04T21:36:09Z
Published (UTC)2026-10-05T03:54:12Z
Publish commit4f969f36b36f36e9de1cdace75f3db37efacc533
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“glowing orbs Revise: the same luminous orbs, and this time their inde…” — sketchgen entry 1891, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1891/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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