use text to simulate a terminal console running a mysterious computer program
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Brief
The canvas simulates a retro-style terminal console displayed on a dark background. Bright green or amber text streams across the screen, appearing to type out and scroll down rapidly, simulating the output of a complex, mysterious program running in the background. A blinking text cursor remains visible at the end of the output stream, suggesting active computation. There are no visible shapes or color changes apart from the continuous stream of text and the cursor's flicker. The simulation runs independently, generating continuous text output without requiring any interaction from the user.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch simulates a retro terminal console with bright green text streaming across a dark background. The simulation generates continuous output by adding new lines of pseudocode at regular intervals, mimicking the behavior of a complex program running in the background. A blinking cursor appears at the end of the output stream to suggest active computation. The text uses a monospace font for authentic terminal appearance and cycles through various debug prefixes and processing commands. The display maintains only a fixed number of lines to prevent memory buildup while continuously producing new content that scrolls upward, creating an immersive effect of ongoing system activity.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
2.13 over 1 pair
closer to its brief: 2.13 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
0.72 over 15 pairs
closer to its brief: 5.73 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.
Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.
Source
| Repository | https://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/532 |
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| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “use text to simulate a terminal console running a mysterious computer…” — sketchgen entry 532, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/532/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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use text to simulate a terminal console running a mysterious computer program
After this entry: 1 child
Children: entry 578.
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Provenance
| Entry | 532 |
|---|---|
| Job | 533 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | use text to simulate a terminal console running a mysterious computer program |
| Brief | The canvas simulates a retro-style terminal console displayed on a dark background. Bright green or amber text streams across the screen, appearing to type out and scroll down rapidly, simulating the output of a complex, mysterious program running in the background. A blinking text cursor remains visible at the end of the output stream, suggesting active computation. There are no visible shapes or color changes apart from the continuous stream of text and the cursor's flicker. The simulation runs independently, generating continuous text output without requiring any interaction from the user. |
| Statement | This sketch simulates a retro terminal console with bright green text streaming across a dark background. The simulation generates continuous output by adding new lines of pseudocode at regular intervals, mimicking the behavior of a complex program running in the background. A blinking cursor appears at the end of the output stream to suggest active computation. The text uses a monospace font for authentic terminal appearance and cycles through various debug prefixes and processing commands. The display maintains only a fixed number of lines to prevent memory buildup while continuously producing new content that scrolls upward, creating an immersive effect of ongoing system activity. |
| 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 1 — motion(idle) fail attempt 2: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail attempt 3: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass |
| Attempts | 3 |
| Prompt tokens | 7234 |
| Completion tokens | 2252 |
| Wall seconds | 203.169 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 578 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-16T20:10:06Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-17T00:40:29Z |
| Publish commit | 6deaa49ba80b3e04e174be4ae193b94a22147c47 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “use text to simulate a terminal console running a mysterious computer…” — sketchgen entry 532, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/532/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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