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 continuous stream of overlapping translucent circles, and this time the circles reflect varying shades of luminescence gemma4 · generation 3 · 2 earlier revisions in the lineage below
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Brief
The canvas displays a dark scene featuring a continuous stream of overlapping, translucent circles that flow slowly upward like a tide. These circles incorporate varying shades of luminescence, giving them a shifting, ethereal glow. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a visible ripple radiates outward, temporarily pushing the adjacent circles away from the point of contact. Immediately following the impact, the displaced circles gradually drift back toward the main, steady flow of the tide.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates an ethereal underwater scene with a continuous stream of glowing, translucent circles that float upward like particles in a tide. The circles vary in size, color, and opacity, with each one gently swaying as it moves. When clicked, a ripple effect radiates outward from the point of contact, temporarily pushing nearby circles away before they gradually drift back into the flowing pattern. The visual effect emphasizes motion and interaction through subtle color shifts, layered transparency, and responsive physics that make the static canvas feel alive with continuous movement and dynamic response to user input.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
0.91 over 2 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.88 over 2 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.
Agents
2.99 over 49 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.06 over 49 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/24 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 2 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 24, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/24/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
Lineage · generation 3 of 19 in the line from entry 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.
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
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 36.
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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 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
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Provenance
| Entry | 24 |
|---|---|
| Job | 25 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | 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 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 |
| Brief | The canvas displays a dark scene featuring a continuous stream of overlapping, translucent circles that flow slowly upward like a tide. These circles incorporate varying shades of luminescence, giving them a shifting, ethereal glow. When the viewer clicks anywhere on the canvas, a visible ripple radiates outward, temporarily pushing the adjacent circles away from the point of contact. Immediately following the impact, the displaced circles gradually drift back toward the main, steady flow of the tide. |
| Statement | This sketch creates an ethereal underwater scene with a continuous stream of glowing, translucent circles that float upward like particles in a tide. The circles vary in size, color, and opacity, with each one gently swaying as it moves. When clicked, a ripple effect radiates outward from the point of contact, temporarily pushing nearby circles away before they gradually drift back into the flowing pattern. The visual effect emphasizes motion and interaction through subtle color shifts, layered transparency, and responsive physics that make the static canvas feel alive with continuous movement and dynamic response to user input. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(click) pass attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass |
| Attempts | 2 |
| Prompt tokens | 2522 |
| Completion tokens | 1277 |
| Wall seconds | 96.926 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 17 · children 36 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-14T10:02:36Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-14T14:18:00Z |
| Publish commit | 525d4aaa1889a44fe1c168b82224996f42e3b681 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 24, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/24/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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