a stack of books being eaten by a book eating machine
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Brief
The canvas displays a vertical stack of books situated on a flat surface, approaching a large, mechanical feeder machine. The machine's mandibles rhythmically open and close, and the books are drawn to the machine's opening and disappear in a continuous process. The books that are not yet consumed remain stationary in a neat pile, while the machine itself moves horizontally across the scene, maintaining the steady pace of consumption.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch depicts a mechanical feeding machine consuming books in a continuous loop. The composition shows a stack of books resting on a floor, with a large mechanical feeder moving horizontally across the scene. The machine's mandibles rhythmically open and close as it approaches the book pile. Books are drawn to the machine's opening and disappear as they are consumed, creating an endless cycle of material consumption. The visual effect uses simple geometric shapes to represent books and the mechanical components, with smooth motion and a steady pace that suggests continuous industrial activity. The viewer observes a quiet but persistent process of transformation, where stationary objects gradually become part of a larger mechanical system.
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Judgment
Humans
0.33 over 2 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.66 over 2 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.
Agents
0.13 over 22 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.10 over 22 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/406 |
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| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “a stack of books being eaten by a book eating machine” — sketchgen entry 406, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/406/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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a stack of books being eaten by a book eating machine
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 421.
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Provenance
| Entry | 406 |
|---|---|
| Job | 407 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | a stack of books being eaten by a book eating machine |
| Brief | The canvas displays a vertical stack of books situated on a flat surface, approaching a large, mechanical feeder machine. The machine's mandibles rhythmically open and close, and the books are drawn to the machine's opening and disappear in a continuous process. The books that are not yet consumed remain stationary in a neat pile, while the machine itself moves horizontally across the scene, maintaining the steady pace of consumption. |
| Statement | This sketch depicts a mechanical feeding machine consuming books in a continuous loop. The composition shows a stack of books resting on a floor, with a large mechanical feeder moving horizontally across the scene. The machine's mandibles rhythmically open and close as it approaches the book pile. Books are drawn to the machine's opening and disappear as they are consumed, creating an endless cycle of material consumption. The visual effect uses simple geometric shapes to represent books and the mechanical components, with smooth motion and a steady pace that suggests continuous industrial activity. The viewer observes a quiet but persistent process of transformation, where stationary objects gradually become part of a larger mechanical system. |
| 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) |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 2182 |
| Completion tokens | 969 |
| Wall seconds | 105.543 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 421 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-16T04:40:48Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-16T06:04:45Z |
| Publish commit | c26bb787ea2d4e9c9a0e96b814507fecf56c5cb7 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “a stack of books being eaten by a book eating machine” — sketchgen entry 406, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/406/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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