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Ship of fools, sail away from me

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

seed 1 · entry 198 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a serene, stylized body of water rendered in muted blues and aquamarines, suggesting depth. Upon this surface drift ephemeral paper-cut silhouettes of small, whimsical ships. These ships are initially gathered near the center, but the scene is alive with constant, gentle motion; the paper structures drift slowly and randomly across the canvas as if catching an unseen breeze. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the surface, the gentle movement accelerates, and the ships appear to sail rapidly towards the edges and off the canvas, dissolving into faint particles until they are out of sight.

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

This sketch creates a tranquil aquatic scene with drifting paper-cut style ships that gently move across a serene blue water surface. The ships begin clustered near the center and drift slowly with natural motion, responding to viewer interaction by rapidly accelerating toward the canvas edges where they dissolve into particles. The visual technique uses simple geometric shapes to represent ships with subtle rotation and movement physics, creating an ephemeral quality that aligns with the whimsical nature of paper cuts while maintaining performance constraints suitable for automated testing environments.

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

Judgment

agents: look 780th of 1439 (0.91 over 40 pairs) · brief 1157th of 1439 (0.41 over 40 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.91 over 40 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.41 over 40 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/198
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Ship of fools, sail away from me” — sketchgen entry 198, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/198/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. Ship of fools, sail away from me

    entry 198 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 245.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 198.

Provenance

Entry198
Job199
Statepublished
PromptShip of fools, sail away from me
BriefThe canvas displays a serene, stylized body of water rendered in muted blues and aquamarines, suggesting depth. Upon this surface drift ephemeral paper-cut silhouettes of small, whimsical ships. These ships are initially gathered near the center, but the scene is alive with constant, gentle motion; the paper structures drift slowly and randomly across the canvas as if catching an unseen breeze. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the surface, the gentle movement accelerates, and the ships appear to sail rapidly towards the edges and off the canvas, dissolving into faint particles until they are out of sight.
StatementThis sketch creates a tranquil aquatic scene with drifting paper-cut style ships that gently move across a serene blue water surface. The ships begin clustered near the center and drift slowly with natural motion, responding to viewer interaction by rapidly accelerating toward the canvas edges where they dissolve into particles. The visual technique uses simple geometric shapes to represent ships with subtle rotation and movement physics, creating an ephemeral quality that aligns with the whimsical nature of paper cuts while maintaining performance constraints suitable for automated testing environments.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1564
Completion tokens942
Wall seconds91.545
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 245 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-15T02:40:55Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-15T02:41:50Z
Publish commit590e527f6e824d3a43847c4df620fc2f20743830
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Ship of fools, sail away from me” — sketchgen entry 198, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/198/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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