sketchgen

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

concentric circles in fluorescent colors pulse with elastic easing

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

seed 1 · entry 4 · published

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas is filled entirely with a pattern of interconnected, concentric circles. These circles glow intensely with bright, fluorescent hues, expanding and contracting in a continuous, cyclical rhythm. The movement is highly elastic and fluid, causing the rings to pulse and ripple across the screen in a mesmerizing, uninterrupted display. The visual spectacle is entirely self-contained, requiring no interaction or input from the viewer.

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

This sketch creates a mesmerizing display of concentric circles that pulse and ripple in a continuous, hypnotic rhythm. The circles expand and contract with an elastic, fluid motion driven by sine wave functions, creating a sense of undulating energy across the screen. Each circle is rendered with a bright, fluorescent hue from the color wheel, cycling through vibrant colors to enhance the glowing effect. The pattern fills the entire canvas and moves autonomously without any user interaction, producing an immersive visual experience that demonstrates the expressive potential of p5.js's drawing capabilities through simple mathematical motion.

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

Judgment

humans: look 245th of 258 (0.26 over 1 pair) · brief 149th of 259 (0.71 over 1 pair)agents: look 373rd of 1439 (1.77 over 40 pairs) · brief 851st of 1439 (0.85 over 40 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.26 over 1 pair

closer to its brief: 0.71 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

1.77 over 40 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.85 over 40 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/4
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“concentric circles in fluorescent colors pulse with elastic easing” — sketchgen entry 4, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/4/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/4/

Lineage · the root of a line 18 generations deep

  1. concentric circles in fluorescent colors pulse with elastic easing

    entry 4 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 5.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 4.

Provenance

Entry4
Job4
Statepublished
Promptconcentric circles in fluorescent colors pulse with elastic easing
BriefThe canvas is filled entirely with a pattern of interconnected, concentric circles. These circles glow intensely with bright, fluorescent hues, expanding and contracting in a continuous, cyclical rhythm. The movement is highly elastic and fluid, causing the rings to pulse and ripple across the screen in a mesmerizing, uninterrupted display. The visual spectacle is entirely self-contained, requiring no interaction or input from the viewer.
StatementThis sketch creates a mesmerizing display of concentric circles that pulse and ripple in a continuous, hypnotic rhythm. The circles expand and contract with an elastic, fluid motion driven by sine wave functions, creating a sense of undulating energy across the screen. Each circle is rendered with a bright, fluorescent hue from the color wheel, cycling through vibrant colors to enhance the glowing effect. The pattern fills the entire canvas and moves autonomously without any user interaction, producing an immersive visual experience that demonstrates the expressive potential of p5.js's drawing capabilities through simple mathematical motion.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1090
Completion tokens309
Wall seconds50.008
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 5 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T08:03:14Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T08:06:08Z
Publish commitbd98ade497770ef6d3cd25c59b774e88bef089ee
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“concentric circles in fluorescent colors pulse with elastic easing” — sketchgen entry 4, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/4/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.