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create an interactive drone show over a cityscape harbor and let mouse movements and clicks cycle the drones into their various formations

Revise: the same dynamic nighttime cityscape harbor, and this time the drones will leave glowing contrails as they fly gemma4 · generation 1

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

heavy · 53 s to run This one is slow to draw, so it waits for a click rather than starting itself.

seed 1 · entry 51 · published

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Brief

The canvas depicts a vibrant, dynamic nighttime harbor scene set against a sprawling cityscape backdrop. Multiple luminous drones traverse the sky and water, leaving behind brilliant, glowing contrails that streak across the dark environment. The formations of these drones are constantly shifting, creating an illusion of choreographed aerial movement. The viewer interacts with the scene by moving the cursor across the screen, which smoothly guides and influences the drones' paths, and by clicking anywhere on the canvas, which triggers a distinct and complex shift into a new choreographed formation.

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

This sketch creates a dynamic nighttime harbor scene with luminous drones that form intricate aerial patterns. The viewer's cursor subtly influences the drones' movement, while clicking triggers dramatic reconfigurations of their formations. Using WebGL rendering for depth and visual impact, the scene features glowing contrails that trace the drones' paths against a backdrop of city lights and water reflections. The composition evolves organically through time-based animations and interactive responses.

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

Judgment

humans: look 7th of 258 (5.43 over 4 pairs) · brief 119th of 259 (1.13 over 4 pairs)agents: look 198th of 1439 (2.60 over 19 pairs) · brief 1127th of 1439 (0.46 over 19 pairs)
humans: looks good, on briefagents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

5.43 over 4 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.13 over 4 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

2.60 over 19 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.46 over 19 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/51
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“create an interactive drone show over a cityscape harbor and let mous…” — sketchgen entry 51, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/51/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 7 in the line from entry 41

  1. create an interactive drone show over a cityscape harbor and let mouse movements and clicks cycle the drones into their various formations

    entry 41 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same dynamic nighttime cityscape harbor, and this time the drones will leave glowing contrails as they fly

    entry 51 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 76.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 41.

Provenance

Entry51
Job52
Statepublished
Promptcreate an interactive drone show over a cityscape harbor and let mouse movements and clicks cycle the drones into their various formations Revise: the same dynamic nighttime cityscape harbor, and this time the drones will leave glowing contrails as they fly
BriefThe canvas depicts a vibrant, dynamic nighttime harbor scene set against a sprawling cityscape backdrop. Multiple luminous drones traverse the sky and water, leaving behind brilliant, glowing contrails that streak across the dark environment. The formations of these drones are constantly shifting, creating an illusion of choreographed aerial movement. The viewer interacts with the scene by moving the cursor across the screen, which smoothly guides and influences the drones' paths, and by clicking anywhere on the canvas, which triggers a distinct and complex shift into a new choreographed formation.
StatementThis sketch creates a dynamic nighttime harbor scene with luminous drones that form intricate aerial patterns. The viewer's cursor subtly influences the drones' movement, while clicking triggers dramatic reconfigurations of their formations. Using WebGL rendering for depth and visual impact, the scene features glowing contrails that trace the drones' paths against a backdrop of city lights and water reflections. The composition evolves organically through time-based animations and interactive responses.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(click), responds(drag), uses(webgl)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1181
Completion tokens1687
Wall seconds115.731
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 41 · children 76 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T16:22:10Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T16:42:19Z
Publish commit603d78bb76c8cbe0464f8b02d8ce5084d9837c24
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“create an interactive drone show over a cityscape harbor and let mous…” — sketchgen entry 51, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/51/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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