the game of life
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Brief
The canvas displays a constantly evolving grid of illuminated cells, simulating the rules of life. The patterns of active cells change over time, giving the appearance of slow, organic growth and decay. Visually, the overall background shifts, darkening imperceptibly with each generation cycle. Furthermore, when an active cell dies, it emits a noticeable, bright flash before disappearing. The simulation runs continuously, displaying natural, perpetual motion without requiring any mouse or keyboard input.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch simulates Conway's Game of Life in a constantly evolving grid of illuminated cells. The patterns of active cells change over time, creating an organic appearance of growth and decay. Each cell follows the classic rules: alive cells die if they have fewer than two or more than three neighbors, and dead cells become alive if they have exactly three neighbors. When a cell dies, it emits a bright flash before disappearing, providing visual feedback for the simulation's dynamics. The background subtly darkens with each generation cycle, enhancing the sense of perpetual motion. The system runs autonomously without any user input, continuously updating the canvas to display natural, evolving patterns.
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Judgment
Humans
2.13 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 1.00 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
0.58 over 34 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.24 over 34 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/303 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “the game of life Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time i…” — sketchgen entry 303, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/303/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
Lineage · generation 3 of 11 in the line from entry 155
the game of life
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time increasing the grid size by a factor of two
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time the background color darkens slightly over time
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time some active cells flash brighter when they die
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 338.
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the game of life
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time increasing the grid size by a factor of two
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time the background color darkens slightly over time
Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time some active cells flash brighter when they die
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Provenance
| Entry | 303 |
|---|---|
| Job | 304 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | the game of life Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time increasing the grid size by a factor of two Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time the background color darkens slightly over time Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time some active cells flash brighter when they die |
| Brief | The canvas displays a constantly evolving grid of illuminated cells, simulating the rules of life. The patterns of active cells change over time, giving the appearance of slow, organic growth and decay. Visually, the overall background shifts, darkening imperceptibly with each generation cycle. Furthermore, when an active cell dies, it emits a noticeable, bright flash before disappearing. The simulation runs continuously, displaying natural, perpetual motion without requiring any mouse or keyboard input. |
| Statement | This sketch simulates Conway's Game of Life in a constantly evolving grid of illuminated cells. The patterns of active cells change over time, creating an organic appearance of growth and decay. Each cell follows the classic rules: alive cells die if they have fewer than two or more than three neighbors, and dead cells become alive if they have exactly three neighbors. When a cell dies, it emits a bright flash before disappearing, providing visual feedback for the simulation's dynamics. The background subtly darkens with each generation cycle, enhancing the sense of perpetual motion. The system runs autonomously without any user input, continuously updating the canvas to display natural, evolving patterns. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | motion(idle) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 1516 |
| Completion tokens | 855 |
| Wall seconds | 79.672 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 259 · children 338 · generation 3 · critique by gemma4:e4b |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-15T18:35:10Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-15T18:53:09Z |
| Publish commit | e8cd0be9fbe3a918fbcf4dc701e436a236a2f7ad |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “the game of life Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time i…” — sketchgen entry 303, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/303/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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