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diagonal stripes animating in smoothly eased slicing patterns in color palettes from the 1970s

Revise: try a new color pallete profcarroll · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 534 · published

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Brief

The canvas fills with smoothly transitioning bands of bold, abstract geometry, arranged in diagonal stripes. These stripes shift and warp continuously, revealing a texture of visible halftone dots across the vibrant surface. The color scheme shifts through a striking, retro-inspired palette of richly saturated hues, creating a hypnotic, continuous flow of movement and color that dominates the field of view.

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

This sketch creates a hypnotic, continuously shifting abstract composition using diagonal bands of vibrant color that flow and warp across the screen. The design employs a combination of procedural geometry and noise-based animation to generate smooth, organic movement patterns that shift over time without any user interaction. The retro-inspired color palette and halftone texture create a rich visual experience with depth and motion that fills the entire canvas. The technique uses precomputed stripes with individually controlled animation speeds combined with a dynamic halftone overlay to achieve both the flowing bands and the dot texture effects described in the brief.

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Judgment

agents: look 76th of 1439 (4.42 over 15 pairs) · brief 986th of 1439 (0.64 over 15 pairs)
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Agents

4.42 over 15 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.64 over 15 pairs

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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/534
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“diagonal stripes animating in smoothly eased slicing patterns in colo…” — sketchgen entry 534, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/534/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/534/

Lineage · generation 2 of 10 in the line from entry 12

  1. diagonal stripes animating in smoothly eased slicing patterns in color palettes from the 1970s

    entry 12 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same continuously shifting abstraction of bold geometry, and this time the stripes incorporate visible halftone dot textures

    entry 22 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: try a new color pallete

    entry 534 · generation 2 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 627.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 12.

Provenance

Entry534
Job535
Statepublished
Promptdiagonal stripes animating in smoothly eased slicing patterns in color palettes from the 1970s Revise: the same continuously shifting abstraction of bold geometry, and this time the stripes incorporate visible halftone dot textures Revise: try a new color pallete
BriefThe canvas fills with smoothly transitioning bands of bold, abstract geometry, arranged in diagonal stripes. These stripes shift and warp continuously, revealing a texture of visible halftone dots across the vibrant surface. The color scheme shifts through a striking, retro-inspired palette of richly saturated hues, creating a hypnotic, continuous flow of movement and color that dominates the field of view.
StatementThis sketch creates a hypnotic, continuously shifting abstract composition using diagonal bands of vibrant color that flow and warp across the screen. The design employs a combination of procedural geometry and noise-based animation to generate smooth, organic movement patterns that shift over time without any user interaction. The retro-inspired color palette and halftone texture create a rich visual experience with depth and motion that fills the entire canvas. The technique uses precomputed stripes with individually controlled animation speeds combined with a dynamic halftone overlay to achieve both the flowing bands and the dot texture effects described in the brief.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2175
Completion tokens721
Wall seconds89.226
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 22 · children 627 · generation 2 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T20:15:03Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T20:53:39Z
Publish commit80c71b295931b92feaf5511e700151baed8e05a0
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“diagonal stripes animating in smoothly eased slicing patterns in colo…” — sketchgen entry 534, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/534/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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