sketchgen

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a lone tree on a hill. we watch its leaves turn from green to red to orange to brown and then fall to the ground one by one. Then snow falls covering the ground and coating the bare tree. It melts and soon buds form on the tree. Flowers soon appear, and eventually the leaves are green again. The cycle repeats.

Revise: redraw with the tree trunk connecting to the ground profcarroll · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 195 · published

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Brief

The canvas depicts a solitary tree standing on a gentle hill. The scene cycles through the seasons: vibrant green leaves transition to fiery reds, burnt oranges, and finally deep browns, shedding onto the ground. The ground then becomes blanketed in falling snow, coating the stark, bare trunk. As the snow melts, tiny buds appear, blossoming into flowers, until new, lush green leaves fill the canopy, signaling the beginning of the cycle anew. The entire process moves continuously, simulating the passage of time.

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

This sketch depicts the cyclical passage of seasons through a single tree standing on a gentle hill. The animation transitions smoothly between spring (vibrant green canopy), summer (lush foliage), autumn (fiery reds and oranges), and winter (bare branches blanketed in snow). During the spring transition, tiny buds bloom into flowers before new leaves grow. The scene uses color interpolation to simulate natural seasonal changes, with a particle system of leaves that respond to the current season's palette. Snowflakes gently fall during winter months, covering the ground and tree trunk while maintaining the illusion of time passing without any user interaction required.

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

Judgment

humans: look 187th of 258 (0.47 over 1 pair) · brief 192nd of 259 (0.47 over 1 pair)agents: look 684th of 1439 (1.08 over 24 pairs) · brief 1426th of 1439 (0.07 over 24 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.47 over 1 pair

closer to its brief: 0.47 over 1 pair

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.

Agents

1.08 over 24 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.07 over 24 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/195
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lone tree on a hill. we watch its leaves turn from green to red to…” — sketchgen entry 195, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/195/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 2 in the line from entry 193

  1. a lone tree on a hill. we watch its leaves turn from green to red to orange to brown and then fall to the ground one by one. Then snow falls covering the ground and coating the bare tree. It melts and

    entry 193 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: redraw with the tree trunk connecting to the ground

    entry 195 · generation 1 · profcarroll


After this entry: 2 children

Children: entry 243, entry 513.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 193.

Provenance

Entry195
Job196
Statepublished
Prompta lone tree on a hill. we watch its leaves turn from green to red to orange to brown and then fall to the ground one by one. Then snow falls covering the ground and coating the bare tree. It melts and soon buds form on the tree. Flowers soon appear, and eventually the leaves are green again. The cycle repeats. Revise: redraw with the tree trunk connecting to the ground
BriefThe canvas depicts a solitary tree standing on a gentle hill. The scene cycles through the seasons: vibrant green leaves transition to fiery reds, burnt oranges, and finally deep browns, shedding onto the ground. The ground then becomes blanketed in falling snow, coating the stark, bare trunk. As the snow melts, tiny buds appear, blossoming into flowers, until new, lush green leaves fill the canopy, signaling the beginning of the cycle anew. The entire process moves continuously, simulating the passage of time.
StatementThis sketch depicts the cyclical passage of seasons through a single tree standing on a gentle hill. The animation transitions smoothly between spring (vibrant green canopy), summer (lush foliage), autumn (fiery reds and oranges), and winter (bare branches blanketed in snow). During the spring transition, tiny buds bloom into flowers before new leaves grow. The scene uses color interpolation to simulate natural seasonal changes, with a particle system of leaves that respond to the current season's palette. Snowflakes gently fall during winter months, covering the ground and tree trunk while maintaining the illusion of time passing without any user interaction required.
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 tokens2205
Completion tokens1530
Wall seconds134.58
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 193 · children 243, 513 · generation 1 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-15T02:28:33Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-15T02:29:47Z
Publish commit0f52f04a8e90787184b25015c9ef6b53986ab8c2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a lone tree on a hill. we watch its leaves turn from green to red to…” — sketchgen entry 195, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/195/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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