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a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack

Revise: the same field of amorphous, glowing planes, and this time introducing varied levels of sharper contrast and defined edges between the floating shapes gemma4 · generation 8 · 7 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 506 · published

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Brief

A field of glowing, amorphous planes floats across the screen, exhibiting a continuous, mesmerizing movement. While the shapes maintain their glowing nature, the visual focus is on the contrast between the planes, which transition from soft, diffuse edges to regions with sharper definition. As the shapes drift and reform, the boundaries become more clearly articulated, creating a dynamic play between organic softness and geometric sharpness. The experience is purely observational, requiring no input.

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

This sketch creates an ever-shifting field of glowing, amorphous planes that drift across the screen with a mesmerizing rhythm. Each plane maintains its soft, luminous quality while gradually shifting from diffuse edges to more defined geometric forms through subtle distortions and transformations. The planes transition between shapes—ellipses, rectangles, and triangles—while floating in synchronized yet independent motion patterns. Their colors shift subtly in hue over time, creating a continuous visual narrative of organic softness and emerging geometric clarity. The effect is purely observational, requiring no input from the viewer as the planes continuously evolve through their own internal dynamics and interactions with each other.

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

Judgment

agents: look 89th of 1439 (4.18 over 20 pairs) · brief 399th of 1439 (1.93 over 20 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

4.18 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.93 over 20 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/506
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patter…” — sketchgen entry 506, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/506/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/506/

Lineage · generation 8 of 21 in the line from entry 13

  1. a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack

    entry 13 · root · profcarroll

  2. 5 generations folded · 23, 30, 43, 54, 79 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same interlocking grid, and this time introducing asymmetrical clusters of varying sizes

      entry 23 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same interlocking tessellation of hexagons, and this time introducing visible shifts in color saturation

      entry 30 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing areas of random geometric fracture

      entry 43 · generation 3 · gemma4

    4. Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing variable directional flow to the rotating shapes

      entry 54 · generation 4 · gemma4

    5. Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing varying levels of perceived transparency between adjacent hexagons

      entry 79 · generation 5 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same interlocking tessellation of hexagons, and this time introducing variable rates of perceived rotation across the surface

    entry 121 · generation 6 · gemma4

  4. Revise: too derivatve, try something different

    entry 123 · generation 7 · profcarroll

  5. Revise: the same field of amorphous, glowing planes, and this time introducing varied levels of sharper contrast and defined edges between the floating shapes

    entry 506 · generation 8 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 613.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 13.

Provenance

Entry506
Job507
Statepublished
Prompta grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patterns with softening visual effects, 1980s color palette, and a subtle soundtrack Revise: the same interlocking grid, and this time introducing asymmetrical clusters of varying sizes Revise: the same interlocking tessellation of hexagons, and this time introducing visible shifts in color saturation Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing areas of random geometric fracture Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing variable directional flow to the rotating shapes Revise: the same interlocking hexagonal tessellations, and this time introducing varying levels of perceived transparency between adjacent hexagons Revise: the same interlocking tessellation of hexagons, and this time introducing variable rates of perceived rotation across the surface Revise: too derivatve, try something different Revise: the same field of amorphous, glowing planes, and this time introducing varied levels of sharper contrast and defined edges between the floating shapes
BriefA field of glowing, amorphous planes floats across the screen, exhibiting a continuous, mesmerizing movement. While the shapes maintain their glowing nature, the visual focus is on the contrast between the planes, which transition from soft, diffuse edges to regions with sharper definition. As the shapes drift and reform, the boundaries become more clearly articulated, creating a dynamic play between organic softness and geometric sharpness. The experience is purely observational, requiring no input.
StatementThis sketch creates an ever-shifting field of glowing, amorphous planes that drift across the screen with a mesmerizing rhythm. Each plane maintains its soft, luminous quality while gradually shifting from diffuse edges to more defined geometric forms through subtle distortions and transformations. The planes transition between shapes—ellipses, rectangles, and triangles—while floating in synchronized yet independent motion patterns. Their colors shift subtly in hue over time, creating a continuous visual narrative of organic softness and emerging geometric clarity. The effect is purely observational, requiring no input from the viewer as the planes continuously evolve through their own internal dynamics and interactions with each other.
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 0 — motion(idle) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2217
Completion tokens849
Wall seconds96.418
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 123 · children 613 · generation 8 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T16:56:56Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T17:16:39Z
Publish commitdd3af81da1da8ac8b1bb9d36e6bd5fea2eb0fd94
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a grid of hexagons that rotate and interconnect in mesmerizing patter…” — sketchgen entry 506, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/506/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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