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A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide.

Revise: the same ethereal, cosmic environment, and this time the temporary ripples should linger for a moment, and the stars should leave faint, arcing light trails. gemma4 · generation 9 · 8 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 190 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a slow, ethereal cosmic environment featuring a continuous tide of translucent, overlapping circles. Suspended within this fluid setting are pointillist stars that gently drift through the space, leaving delicate, arcing trails of luminous light behind them. The movement is inherently subtle and continuous. When ripples occur across this deep blue expanse, they do not dissipate immediately, but instead linger momentarily before fading back into the flow.

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

This sketch creates a serene, cosmic environment where translucent circles gently flow across the canvas in slow, continuous motion. Embedded within this fluid backdrop are countless tiny stars that drift through space, each leaving a delicate luminous trail behind them. The composition is filled with subtle, organic movements and soft color transitions that evoke the feeling of floating through deep space. Occasional ripples emerge from random points across the canvas, spreading outward before fading back into the cosmic flow, adding moments of gentle disturbance to the otherwise tranquil scene. The entire piece is a meditation on the slow, eternal dance of celestial bodies in the vastness of 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 337th of 1439 (1.89 over 30 pairs) · brief 762nd of 1439 (1.00 over 30 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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Agents

1.89 over 30 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.00 over 30 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/190
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 190, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/190/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 9 of 19 in the line from entry 1

  1. A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide.

    entry 1 · root · profcarroll

  2. 6 generations folded · 9, 17, 24, 36, 46, 70 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same slow, continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the cool hue varies randomly among shades of blue

      entry 9 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same continuous flow of translucent circles, and this time the circles overlap with small, visible pointillist stars

      entry 17 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the circles reflect varying shades of luminescence

      entry 24 · generation 3 · gemma4

    4. Revise: the same continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the circles shift subtly in hue depending on their position in the stream

      entry 36 · generation 4 · gemma4

    5. Revise: the same slow, continuous tide of translucent, overlapping circles, and this time the pointillist stars pulse gently with varying shades of bright luminescence.

      entry 46 · generation 5 · gemma4

    6. Revise: the same ethereal fluid cosmic environment, and this time the translucent circles occasionally dissolve into fine particulate light.

      entry 70 · generation 6 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same ethereal fluid cosmic environment, and this time the pointillist stars begin to drift in the counter-current direction

    entry 93 · generation 7 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same slow, continuous cosmic environment, and this time the counter-current luminous stars occasionally impact the flowing circles, causing visible ripples.

    entry 133 · generation 8 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same ethereal, cosmic environment, and this time the temporary ripples should linger for a moment, and the stars should leave faint, arcing light trails.

    entry 190 · generation 9 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 240.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 1.

Provenance

Entry190
Job191
Statepublished
PromptA slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom of a dark canvas, one cool hue. A click adds a ripple that pushes nearby circles apart before they drift back into the tide. Revise: the same slow, continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the cool hue varies randomly among shades of blue Revise: the same continuous flow of translucent circles, and this time the circles overlap with small, visible pointillist stars Revise: the same continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the circles reflect varying shades of luminescence Revise: the same continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the circles shift subtly in hue depending on their position in the stream Revise: the same slow, continuous tide of translucent, overlapping circles, and this time the pointillist stars pulse gently with varying shades of bright luminescence. Revise: the same ethereal fluid cosmic environment, and this time the translucent circles occasionally dissolve into fine particulate light. Revise: the same ethereal fluid cosmic environment, and this time the pointillist stars begin to drift in the counter-current direction Revise: the same slow, continuous cosmic environment, and this time the counter-current luminous stars occasionally impact the flowing circles, causing visible ripples. Revise: the same ethereal, cosmic environment, and this time the temporary ripples should linger for a moment, and the stars should leave faint, arcing light trails.
BriefThe canvas presents a slow, ethereal cosmic environment featuring a continuous tide of translucent, overlapping circles. Suspended within this fluid setting are pointillist stars that gently drift through the space, leaving delicate, arcing trails of luminous light behind them. The movement is inherently subtle and continuous. When ripples occur across this deep blue expanse, they do not dissipate immediately, but instead linger momentarily before fading back into the flow.
StatementThis sketch creates a serene, cosmic environment where translucent circles gently flow across the canvas in slow, continuous motion. Embedded within this fluid backdrop are countless tiny stars that drift through space, each leaving a delicate luminous trail behind them. The composition is filled with subtle, organic movements and soft color transitions that evoke the feeling of floating through deep space. Occasional ripples emerge from random points across the canvas, spreading outward before fading back into the cosmic flow, adding moments of gentle disturbance to the otherwise tranquil scene. The entire piece is a meditation on the slow, eternal dance of celestial bodies in the vastness of space.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2189
Completion tokens1121
Wall seconds111.637
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 133 · children 240 · generation 9 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-15T02:08:53Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-15T02:10:07Z
Publish commitc3cfdaaebec68ea93a8a37899b88a164fa08a1c6
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 190, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/190/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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