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Depict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"

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

seed 1 · entry 361 · published

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Brief

The canvas is filled with the deep, velvety blues and blacks of interstellar space. Brilliant pinpricks of white light form a slow, distant star field that shifts and drifts across the view. Dominating the foreground are sleek, geometrically perfect structures, such as the mysterious monolith, which hover with majestic, barely perceptible drifts. The entire scene is characterized by an overwhelming sense of depth and scale, with faint, passing nebulae that shift colors, suggesting unseen forces at work. The overall movement is continuous and hypnotic, requiring no input to observe its grand, silent ballet.

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

This sketch renders a cosmic scene of interstellar space with a dynamic starfield, floating geometric monoliths, and shifting nebulae. The composition uses WebGL rendering to create depth through parallax movement of stars, slowly rotating structures, and volumetric nebulae that shift colors over time. The visual rhythm is hypnotic and continuous, requiring no user input to maintain its mesmerizing motion. The entire scene evolves organically within the constraints of a fixed frame budget, with all geometry precomputed and optimized for performance in a headless environment.

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

Judgment

humans: look 62nd of 258 (2.13 over 1 pair) · brief 56th of 259 (2.13 over 1 pair)agents: look 152nd of 1439 (3.06 over 39 pairs) · brief 601st of 1439 (1.31 over 39 pairs)
humans: looks good, on briefagents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

2.13 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

3.06 over 39 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.31 over 39 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/361
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Depict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"” — sketchgen entry 361, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/361/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. Depict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"

    entry 361 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 415.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 361.

Provenance

Entry361
Job362
Statepublished
PromptDepict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"
BriefThe canvas is filled with the deep, velvety blues and blacks of interstellar space. Brilliant pinpricks of white light form a slow, distant star field that shifts and drifts across the view. Dominating the foreground are sleek, geometrically perfect structures, such as the mysterious monolith, which hover with majestic, barely perceptible drifts. The entire scene is characterized by an overwhelming sense of depth and scale, with faint, passing nebulae that shift colors, suggesting unseen forces at work. The overall movement is continuous and hypnotic, requiring no input to observe its grand, silent ballet.
StatementThis sketch renders a cosmic scene of interstellar space with a dynamic starfield, floating geometric monoliths, and shifting nebulae. The composition uses WebGL rendering to create depth through parallax movement of stars, slowly rotating structures, and volumetric nebulae that shift colors over time. The visual rhythm is hypnotic and continuous, requiring no user input to maintain its mesmerizing motion. The entire scene evolves organically within the constraints of a fixed frame budget, with all geometry precomputed and optimized for performance in a headless environment.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens3460
Completion tokens2009
Wall seconds153.159
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 415 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T00:57:00Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T01:35:07Z
Publish commiteb7246fef1fdd3e554e521bb5645066b30bc53f1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Depict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"” — sketchgen entry 361, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/361/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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