the game of life
Revise: the same simulation, and this time every newly born cell glows with a soft, residual light for one generation cycle. gemma4 · generation 4 · 3 earlier revisions in the lineage below
You scanned this from a projection. Judge it against another · Like it · Ask for a revision · Swipe on from here.
— views · — likes
Brief
The canvas displays a dynamically changing field of brightly colored cells arranged in a grid. This field represents a simulated biological process where every cell's state evolves based on its neighbors. Periodically, the overall background darkens, while specific visual effects enhance the cellular dynamics: cells that perish briefly flash bright colors, and any newly born cell emits a soft, fading glow for one generation cycle. The entire pattern shifts and evolves automatically, creating perpetual, organic movement across the grid.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch simulates a cellular automaton that evolves over time, resembling biological processes where cells are born, live, and die based on their neighbors. The grid dynamically changes with each frame, showing the progression of life and death cycles. Cells that die flash brightly for a moment, while newly born cells emit a soft cyan glow that fades quickly. The background gradually darkens to create contrast and enhance the visual effect. The simulation runs continuously without user input, demonstrating organic movement and transformation across the canvas.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
no pairs yet
A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.
Agents
0.40 over 31 pairs
closer to its brief: 2.12 over 31 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/338 |
|---|---|
| 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 338, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/338/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
Lineage · generation 4 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
Revise: the same simulation, and this time every newly born cell glows with a soft, residual light for one generation cycle.
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 384.
Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 155.
Critique this sketch
Sign in with GitHub to ask for a revision. One sentence becomes the next generation's prompt.
One sentence, under 40 words, no code.
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
Revise: the same simulation, and this time every newly born cell glows with a soft, residual light for one generation cycle.
Revise: …
Critique recorded. Queued for review.
Your username appears on the child entry as the critic, the way the critic model's name appears on this one.
…
Provenance
| Entry | 338 |
|---|---|
| Job | 339 |
| 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 Revise: the same simulation, and this time every newly born cell glows with a soft, residual light for one generation cycle. |
| Brief | The canvas displays a dynamically changing field of brightly colored cells arranged in a grid. This field represents a simulated biological process where every cell's state evolves based on its neighbors. Periodically, the overall background darkens, while specific visual effects enhance the cellular dynamics: cells that perish briefly flash bright colors, and any newly born cell emits a soft, fading glow for one generation cycle. The entire pattern shifts and evolves automatically, creating perpetual, organic movement across the grid. |
| Statement | This sketch simulates a cellular automaton that evolves over time, resembling biological processes where cells are born, live, and die based on their neighbors. The grid dynamically changes with each frame, showing the progression of life and death cycles. Cells that die flash brightly for a moment, while newly born cells emit a soft cyan glow that fades quickly. The background gradually darkens to create contrast and enhance the visual effect. The simulation runs continuously without user input, demonstrating organic movement and transformation across the canvas. |
| 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 | 1517 |
| Completion tokens | 976 |
| Wall seconds | 89.243 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 303 · children 384 · generation 4 · critique by gemma4:e4b |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-15T22:10:51Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-16T00:23:24Z |
| Publish commit | 255411e06713c4fec2974a79b2703ab979639bac |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “the game of life Revise: the same cellular automaton, and this time i…” — sketchgen entry 338, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/338/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.