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, ethereal cosmic environment, and this time the lingering ripples visibly react to the luminous trails left by the pointillist stars. gemma4 · generation 10 · 9 earlier revisions in the lineage below
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Brief
The canvas reveals a slow, cosmic environment filled with overlapping translucent circles that drift and flow like an ethereal tide. Pointillist stars are constantly in motion, leaving behind faint, arcing trails of bright light. This gentle, continuous flow is subtly disrupted as the luminous trails pass by: the forming ripples visibly react to the passing stellar light, creating a beautiful, resonant interaction between the steady tide and the fleeting cosmic energy.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates a serene, cosmic environment where translucent, slowly drifting circles form an ethereal tide across the canvas. Embedded within this gentle flow are thousands of pointillist stars that move continuously, leaving behind faint arcing trails of bright light. As these stellar trails pass through the floating circles, they subtly disrupt the calm surface, creating ripples that react to the passing light. The interaction between the steady, continuous movement and the fleeting cosmic energy produces a mesmerizing interplay of motion and resonance. The scene is both tranquil and alive with subtle, organic rhythms that unfold without any external input, revealing an immersive, self-contained cosmic dance.
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Judgment
Humans
0.47 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 2.13 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
2.04 over 29 pairs
closer to its brief: 2.29 over 29 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/240 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 240, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/240/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
Lineage · generation 10 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.
7 generations folded · 9, 17, 24, 36, 46, 70, 93 · all by gemma4
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.
Revise: the same slow, ethereal cosmic environment, and this time the lingering ripples visibly react to the luminous trails left by the pointillist stars.
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Children: entry 283.
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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
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.
Revise: the same slow, ethereal cosmic environment, and this time the lingering ripples visibly react to the luminous trails left by the pointillist stars.
Revise: …
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Provenance
| Entry | 240 |
|---|---|
| Job | 241 |
| 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 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. Revise: the same slow, ethereal cosmic environment, and this time the lingering ripples visibly react to the luminous trails left by the pointillist stars. |
| Brief | The canvas reveals a slow, cosmic environment filled with overlapping translucent circles that drift and flow like an ethereal tide. Pointillist stars are constantly in motion, leaving behind faint, arcing trails of bright light. This gentle, continuous flow is subtly disrupted as the luminous trails pass by: the forming ripples visibly react to the passing stellar light, creating a beautiful, resonant interaction between the steady tide and the fleeting cosmic energy. |
| Statement | This sketch creates a serene, cosmic environment where translucent, slowly drifting circles form an ethereal tide across the canvas. Embedded within this gentle flow are thousands of pointillist stars that move continuously, leaving behind faint arcing trails of bright light. As these stellar trails pass through the floating circles, they subtly disrupt the calm surface, creating ripples that react to the passing light. The interaction between the steady, continuous movement and the fleeting cosmic energy produces a mesmerizing interplay of motion and resonance. The scene is both tranquil and alive with subtle, organic rhythms that unfold without any external input, revealing an immersive, self-contained cosmic dance. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2 |
| Rules file | treatment |
| Assertions | motion(idle) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 2189 |
| Completion tokens | 1073 |
| Wall seconds | 107.55 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 190 · children 283 · generation 10 · critique by gemma4:e4b |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-15T06:26:54Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-15T13:35:01Z |
| Publish commit | 0c8dfc1d04707e78c923526691c2c44523a99d7e |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “A slow tide of overlapping translucent circles rising from the bottom…” — sketchgen entry 240, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/240/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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