sketchgen

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flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories

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

seed 1 · entry 423 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a continuously evolving, deep-set grid structure rendered with metallic blues, burnt siennas, and industrial grays. This surface appears simultaneously like a densely packed circuit board and an expansive aerial view of structured rooftops. Geometric lines crisscross, forming a chaotic yet organized network of pathways and connections. The entire field exhibits a constant, slow, transformative movement, giving the illusion of floating through a massive, subterranean landscape or a highly populated urban expanse. The visual elements shift and warp over time, making it unclear whether the repeating patterns belong to human infrastructure or complex electrical routing.

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

This sketch renders an abstract, evolving grid structure that merges the visual language of circuit boards and urban rooftops. Using a spatial hash for neighbor lookups, it creates a dynamic network of metallic blues, burnt siennas, and industrial grays that shift and transform over time. The visual field appears to float through a subterranean or densely populated landscape, with geometric lines forming a chaotic yet organized pathway system. Particles move slowly in 3D space, connecting to nearby neighbors based on proximity, creating an ever-changing web of connections that gives the illusion of complex infrastructure or electrical routing. The constant camera movement and time-based color shifts enhance the sense of depth and transformation.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1301st of 1439 (0.30 over 15 pairs) · brief 259th of 1439 (2.45 over 15 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.30 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.45 over 15 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/423
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses an…” — sketchgen entry 423, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/423/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/423/

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  1. flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories

    entry 423 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 471.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 423.

Provenance

Entry423
Job424
Statepublished
Promptflyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories
BriefThe canvas presents a continuously evolving, deep-set grid structure rendered with metallic blues, burnt siennas, and industrial grays. This surface appears simultaneously like a densely packed circuit board and an expansive aerial view of structured rooftops. Geometric lines crisscross, forming a chaotic yet organized network of pathways and connections. The entire field exhibits a constant, slow, transformative movement, giving the illusion of floating through a massive, subterranean landscape or a highly populated urban expanse. The visual elements shift and warp over time, making it unclear whether the repeating patterns belong to human infrastructure or complex electrical routing.
StatementThis sketch renders an abstract, evolving grid structure that merges the visual language of circuit boards and urban rooftops. Using a spatial hash for neighbor lookups, it creates a dynamic network of metallic blues, burnt siennas, and industrial grays that shift and transform over time. The visual field appears to float through a subterranean or densely populated landscape, with geometric lines forming a chaotic yet organized pathway system. Particles move slowly in 3D space, connecting to nearby neighbors based on proximity, creating an ever-changing web of connections that gives the illusion of complex infrastructure or electrical routing. The constant camera movement and time-based color shifts enhance the sense of depth and transformation.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens4683
Completion tokens2413
Wall seconds207.463
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 471 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T06:19:44Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T06:21:00Z
Publish commitb60b7d6466c0e70109fa9b9b42dbc01e1cabe1d2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses an…” — sketchgen entry 423, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/423/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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