take the viewer inside an operating printing press
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Brief
The canvas presents a three-dimensional, immersive view deep inside a massive, intricate operating printing press. The viewer observes polished metal, gears, and belts in shades of deep charcoal, brass, and industrial beige. Continuous motion emanates from the machinery: rollers rotate, gears interlock, and sheets of paper are fed through the press at a relentless pace, leaving visible streaks of ink. The printed material and moving components create complex shapes and rhythmic color changes. While the press operates constantly, a single click from the viewer momentarily pauses the mechanism or shifts the camera's focus to a specific, detailed component like the type-setting plate, before resuming the frantic, rhythmic movement of the print cycle.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates an immersive, animated view of a massive printing press in three-dimensional space. Using p5.js's WEBGL renderer, it depicts the intricate machinery of gears, rollers, and paper sheets in motion, with detailed textures and lighting effects that give a sense of industrial scale and mechanical rhythm. The scene continuously evolves with rotating components and moving papers, while a single click toggles between an active animation state and a paused focus mode, allowing viewers to examine the press's details more closely.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
2.67 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 1.18 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
0.44 over 34 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.40 over 34 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/404 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “take the viewer inside an operating printing press” — sketchgen entry 404, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/404/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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Provenance
| Entry | 404 |
|---|---|
| Job | 405 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | take the viewer inside an operating printing press |
| Brief | The canvas presents a three-dimensional, immersive view deep inside a massive, intricate operating printing press. The viewer observes polished metal, gears, and belts in shades of deep charcoal, brass, and industrial beige. Continuous motion emanates from the machinery: rollers rotate, gears interlock, and sheets of paper are fed through the press at a relentless pace, leaving visible streaks of ink. The printed material and moving components create complex shapes and rhythmic color changes. While the press operates constantly, a single click from the viewer momentarily pauses the mechanism or shifts the camera's focus to a specific, detailed component like the type-setting plate, before resuming the frantic, rhythmic movement of the print cycle. |
| Statement | This sketch creates an immersive, animated view of a massive printing press in three-dimensional space. Using p5.js's WEBGL renderer, it depicts the intricate machinery of gears, rollers, and paper sheets in motion, with detailed textures and lighting effects that give a sense of industrial scale and mechanical rhythm. The scene continuously evolves with rotating components and moving papers, while a single click toggles between an active animation state and a paused focus mode, allowing viewers to examine the press's details more closely. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | motion(idle), responds(click), uses(webgl) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass, uses(webgl) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 1609 |
| Completion tokens | 1392 |
| Wall seconds | 113.986 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 457 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-16T04:35:15Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-16T06:03:09Z |
| Publish commit | 418b3ef00b65dc4285debf0523a21b3c63a2eb63 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “take the viewer inside an operating printing press” — sketchgen entry 404, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/404/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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