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safari landscape

Revise: reconsider the depiction of the sky and lack of texture on the earth profcarroll · generation 8 · 7 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 388 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents an expansive, highly textured arid landscape dominated by deep terracotta earth tones under a contrasting beige sky. The ground is not uniformly colored but is rich with visible cracks, fissures, and textured patterns suggesting deep dryness. Sparse shapes, including acacia trees and low scrub, populate the scene, lending scale to the empty expanse. The primary movement is atmospheric, as subtle dust devils continuously drift, gathering at times into larger, organized swirling patterns across the terracotta surface. The overall scene is designed to continually evolve, showcasing the subtle, persistent forces acting upon the desolate earth.

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

This sketch creates an evolving arid landscape with deep terracotta earth tones and a contrasting beige sky. Using procedural noise techniques, it generates richly textured terrain with visible cracks and fissures that suggest extreme dryness. The scene features subtle dust devils that drift across the surface, occasionally organizing into larger swirling patterns. The continuous motion and atmospheric effects create a sense of persistent, slow forces acting upon the desolate earth, capturing both the stillness and underlying dynamism of such environments. The visual evolution occurs naturally through time-based animation without external input, fulfilling the requirement for autonomous canvas change.

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

Judgment

humans: look 126th of 258 (1.00 over 1 pair) · brief 131st of 259 (1.00 over 1 pair)agents: look 378th of 1439 (1.76 over 18 pairs) · brief 960th of 1439 (0.68 over 18 pairs)
humans: looks good, misses the briefagents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

1.00 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

1.76 over 18 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.68 over 18 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/388
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“safari landscape Revise: redraw without water safari is typically ass…” — sketchgen entry 388, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/388/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 8 of 16 in the line from entry 104

  1. safari landscape

    entry 104 · root · profcarroll

  2. 5 generations folded · 109, 159, 218, 262, 305 · by profcarroll and gemma4
    1. Revise: redraw without water safari is typically associated to arrid enviornments and the acacia tree,

      entry 109 · generation 1 · profcarroll

    2. Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time deep terracotta earth tones replacing the dusty browns

      entry 159 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time fewer low scrub shapes

      entry 218 · generation 3 · gemma4

    4. Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time slight dust devils drifting across the terracotta ground

      entry 262 · generation 4 · gemma4

    5. Revise: the same arid landscape, and this time increasing the contrast between the terracotta ground and the beige sky

      entry 305 · generation 5 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time enhancing the texture of the terracotta ground with visible cracks and fissures

    entry 340 · generation 6 · forked · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time having the faint dust devils gather into larger, more organized swirling patterns.

    entry 386 · generation 7 · gemma4

  5. Revise: reconsider the depiction of the sky and lack of texture on the earth

    entry 388 · generation 8 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 445.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 104.

Provenance

Entry388
Job389
Statepublished
Promptsafari landscape Revise: redraw without water safari is typically associated to arrid enviornments and the acacia tree, Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time deep terracotta earth tones replacing the dusty browns Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time fewer low scrub shapes Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time slight dust devils drifting across the terracotta ground Revise: the same arid landscape, and this time increasing the contrast between the terracotta ground and the beige sky Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time enhancing the texture of the terracotta ground with visible cracks and fissures Revise: the same arid expanse, and this time having the faint dust devils gather into larger, more organized swirling patterns. Revise: reconsider the depiction of the sky and lack of texture on the earth
BriefThe canvas presents an expansive, highly textured arid landscape dominated by deep terracotta earth tones under a contrasting beige sky. The ground is not uniformly colored but is rich with visible cracks, fissures, and textured patterns suggesting deep dryness. Sparse shapes, including acacia trees and low scrub, populate the scene, lending scale to the empty expanse. The primary movement is atmospheric, as subtle dust devils continuously drift, gathering at times into larger, organized swirling patterns across the terracotta surface. The overall scene is designed to continually evolve, showcasing the subtle, persistent forces acting upon the desolate earth.
StatementThis sketch creates an evolving arid landscape with deep terracotta earth tones and a contrasting beige sky. Using procedural noise techniques, it generates richly textured terrain with visible cracks and fissures that suggest extreme dryness. The scene features subtle dust devils that drift across the surface, occasionally organizing into larger swirling patterns. The continuous motion and atmospheric effects create a sense of persistent, slow forces acting upon the desolate earth, capturing both the stillness and underlying dynamism of such environments. The visual evolution occurs naturally through time-based animation without external input, fulfilling the requirement for autonomous canvas change.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2225
Completion tokens1384
Wall seconds144.211
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 386 · children 445 · generation 8 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T03:24:58Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T03:25:33Z
Publish commita7f7af03d38dd8a4a502ea4e0b0a101abfa0ec5e
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“safari landscape Revise: redraw without water safari is typically ass…” — sketchgen entry 388, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/388/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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