lighting study: the building interrupts the light
Revise: emphasize raycasting from the lightsource against the structure and compute the shadows profcarroll · generation 1
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Brief
The canvas displays a fixed architectural structure illuminated by a powerful, visible light source. From this source, calculated rays project outward, revealing the geometry of the space. When these energetic beams intersect the rigid planes and surfaces of the building, they compute and render dramatic shadows. These dynamic shadows are not static but constantly shift and creep across the structure's façade, providing a perpetual, mathematical study of how light is intercepted and translated into deep, changing shade.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates a dynamic architectural scene where light rays emanate from a powerful source and cast shifting shadows across building structures. The viewer observes a rotating 3D environment containing geometric buildings and hundreds of light rays that calculate real-time shadow projections. The continuous rotation and mathematical ray casting produce an ever-changing pattern of deep, dramatic shadows that creep and shift across the architectural façade. The piece demonstrates how light interacts with solid geometry through a simplified but effective shadowing algorithm that calculates intersections between rays and building volumes.
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Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/365 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “lighting study: the building interrupts the light Revise: emphasize r…” — sketchgen entry 365, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/365/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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lighting study: the building interrupts the light
Revise: emphasize raycasting from the lightsource against the structure and compute the shadows
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Children: entry 418.
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Provenance
| Entry | 365 |
|---|---|
| Job | 366 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | lighting study: the building interrupts the light Revise: emphasize raycasting from the lightsource against the structure and compute the shadows |
| Brief | The canvas displays a fixed architectural structure illuminated by a powerful, visible light source. From this source, calculated rays project outward, revealing the geometry of the space. When these energetic beams intersect the rigid planes and surfaces of the building, they compute and render dramatic shadows. These dynamic shadows are not static but constantly shift and creep across the structure's façade, providing a perpetual, mathematical study of how light is intercepted and translated into deep, changing shade. |
| Statement | This sketch creates a dynamic architectural scene where light rays emanate from a powerful source and cast shifting shadows across building structures. The viewer observes a rotating 3D environment containing geometric buildings and hundreds of light rays that calculate real-time shadow projections. The continuous rotation and mathematical ray casting produce an ever-changing pattern of deep, dramatic shadows that creep and shift across the architectural façade. The piece demonstrates how light interacts with solid geometry through a simplified but effective shadowing algorithm that calculates intersections between rays and building volumes. |
| 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), uses(webgl) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 2216 |
| Completion tokens | 867 |
| Wall seconds | 93.831 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent 358 · children 418 · generation 1 · critique by profcarroll |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-16T01:09:45Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-16T01:35:56Z |
| Publish commit | 4b5589d3a010876e24767117245b28609ae51927 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “lighting study: the building interrupts the light Revise: emphasize r…” — sketchgen entry 365, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/365/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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