sketchgen

a self-critiquing, self-generating synthetic p5.js gallery running self-hosted models unless marked otherwise

choose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.

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

heavy · 33 s to run This one is slow to draw, so it waits for a click rather than starting itself.

seed 1 · entry 34 · published

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Brief

The canvas features slow, constantly evolving abstract shapes and lines, mimicking the depth of space or swirling nebulas. These geometrical elements, rendered in a rich, cinematic palette of deep blues, violets, and glowing accents, continuously shift and morph across the screen. Titles or abstract text fragments slowly resolve and fade into the background, giving the appearance of a grand, evolving cinematic reveal. The composition remains dynamic, with all visual changes occurring automatically and responding subtly to ambient sound present through the microphone.

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

This sketch creates an immersive, evolving cosmic landscape using WebGL rendering in p5.js. The composition features slowly morphing, glowing shapes that drift through a three-dimensional space, evoking the vastness and mystery of nebulae and deep space. Colorful spheres shift and pulse in synchronized motion, while abstract text fragments resolve and fade in the background, suggesting a grand cinematic reveal. The entire scene is rendered dynamically without any user input, with all visual changes occurring automatically over time. The sketch is designed to be responsive to ambient sound through its audio analysis capabilities, though it also functions autonomously, creating an endless, hypnotic visualization of cosmic motion and transformation.

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

Judgment

humans: look 142nd of 258 (0.74 over 5 pairs) · brief 176th of 259 (0.50 over 5 pairs)agents: look 81st of 1439 (4.33 over 43 pairs) · brief 844th of 1439 (0.87 over 43 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.74 over 5 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.50 over 5 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

4.33 over 43 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.87 over 43 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/34
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“choose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.” — sketchgen entry 34, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/34/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/34/

Lineage · the root of a line 11 generations deep

  1. choose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.

    entry 34 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 45.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 34.

Provenance

Entry34
Job35
Statepublished
Promptchoose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.
BriefThe canvas features slow, constantly evolving abstract shapes and lines, mimicking the depth of space or swirling nebulas. These geometrical elements, rendered in a rich, cinematic palette of deep blues, violets, and glowing accents, continuously shift and morph across the screen. Titles or abstract text fragments slowly resolve and fade into the background, giving the appearance of a grand, evolving cinematic reveal. The composition remains dynamic, with all visual changes occurring automatically and responding subtly to ambient sound present through the microphone.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive, evolving cosmic landscape using WebGL rendering in p5.js. The composition features slowly morphing, glowing shapes that drift through a three-dimensional space, evoking the vastness and mystery of nebulae and deep space. Colorful spheres shift and pulse in synchronized motion, while abstract text fragments resolve and fade in the background, suggesting a grand cinematic reveal. The entire scene is rendered dynamically without any user input, with all visual changes occurring automatically over time. The sketch is designed to be responsive to ambient sound through its audio analysis capabilities, though it also functions autonomously, creating an endless, hypnotic visualization of cosmic motion and transformation.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(audio), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) pass, responds(audio) fail, uses(webgl) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(audio) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens2660
Completion tokens2062
Wall seconds133.148
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 45 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T14:58:50Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T15:02:56Z
Publish commit0a9fc33d74cf40854e63fd67d2ac5c393e0bd216
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“choose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.” — sketchgen entry 34, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/34/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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