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Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculative architectural project developed by Dutch artist and Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1956 and 1974

Revise: iterate into a network of makeshift branching tunnels profcarroll · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 391 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a deep, continuously shifting perspective into a massive, artificial underground architecture. You are enveloped by branching tunnels formed from modular, temporary-feeling structures. Shapes are geometric and rectilinear, rendered in muted industrial tones that occasionally bleed into vibrant, speculative colors. The view suggests endless exploration, with passing light sources defining the narrow paths. As the viewer drags the cursor, the entire network shifts and expands, revealing new passages, architectural junctions, and the iterative evolution of the makeshift tunnel system around you.

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

This sketch creates an immersive, shifting underground environment where viewers navigate through a network of geometric tunnels. The architecture is composed of modular, rectilinear structures rendered in muted industrial tones that occasionally shift to vibrant speculative colors. As the viewer drags their cursor, the entire tunnel system responds by shifting and expanding, revealing new passages and architectural junctions. The scene features dynamic lighting from ambient sources that define narrow paths through the network, while subtle particle effects float through the air, suggesting movement and life within this artificial space. The visual effect suggests endless exploration with a constantly evolving perspective into an expansive, makeshift tunnel system.

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

Judgment

agents: look 604th of 1439 (1.25 over 13 pairs) · brief 49th of 1439 (4.42 over 13 pairs)
agents: looks good, on brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.

Agents

1.25 over 13 pairs

closer to its brief: 4.42 over 13 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/391
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculat…” — sketchgen entry 391, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/391/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/391/

Lineage · generation 1 of 11 in the line from entry 156

  1. Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculative architectural project developed by Dutch artist and Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1956 and 1974

    entry 156 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: iterate into a network of makeshift branching tunnels

    entry 391 · generation 1 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 446.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 156.

Provenance

Entry391
Job392
Statepublished
PromptRender a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculative architectural project developed by Dutch artist and Situationist Constant Nieuwenhuys between 1956 and 1974 Revise: iterate into a network of makeshift branching tunnels
BriefThe canvas presents a deep, continuously shifting perspective into a massive, artificial underground architecture. You are enveloped by branching tunnels formed from modular, temporary-feeling structures. Shapes are geometric and rectilinear, rendered in muted industrial tones that occasionally bleed into vibrant, speculative colors. The view suggests endless exploration, with passing light sources defining the narrow paths. As the viewer drags the cursor, the entire network shifts and expands, revealing new passages, architectural junctions, and the iterative evolution of the makeshift tunnel system around you.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive, shifting underground environment where viewers navigate through a network of geometric tunnels. The architecture is composed of modular, rectilinear structures rendered in muted industrial tones that occasionally shift to vibrant speculative colors. As the viewer drags their cursor, the entire tunnel system responds by shifting and expanding, revealing new passages and architectural junctions. The scene features dynamic lighting from ambient sources that define narrow paths through the network, while subtle particle effects float through the air, suggesting movement and life within this artificial space. The visual effect suggests endless exploration with a constantly evolving perspective into an expansive, makeshift tunnel system.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsuses(webgl), responds(drag), motion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens4688
Completion tokens2098
Wall seconds182.207
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 156 · children 446 · generation 1 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T03:38:46Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T03:39:52Z
Publish commit019b34f83c555bad49f765f685dd75d2e1b8e99d
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Render a perspective from within New Babylon, the visionary, speculat…” — sketchgen entry 391, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/391/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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