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work with glitches, base the illustration off of the image when donald sutherland in Don't Look Now finds his dead child, take francis bacons way of painting as another source of inspiration

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

seed 1 · entry 541 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays the emotional aftermath of trauma, centering on distorted, visceral figures rendered in deep, muddy crimsons, bruised mauves, and unstable bone-whites. The forms appear perpetually fractured, dissolving into geometric noise and chromatic aberration, evoking a sense of structural collapse and psychic anguish. The overall composition constantly pulses with simulated glitches and data decay. The viewing experience emphasizes a raw, unstable surface, where the image exists in a state of perpetual decomposition. Mouse interaction causes the instability to intensify, pulling the central figures apart and revealing underlying grids of corrupted data.

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

This sketch explores the psychological aftermath of trauma through visual decomposition and instability. It renders central figures composed of thousands of particles that continuously fracture and dissolve into geometric noise. The composition pulses with simulated glitches and data decay, using chromatic aberration and color shifts to evoke a sense of structural collapse. The piece employs WEBGL rendering to create an immersive, unstable environment where forms constantly deform and fragment. Mouse interaction intensifies the instability, pulling figures apart to reveal underlying corrupted data grids, while the overall effect suggests a state of perpetual psychic anguish and mental fragmentation.

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

Judgment

humans: look 69th of 258 (2.13 over 1 pair) · brief 62nd of 259 (2.13 over 1 pair)agents: look 1159th of 1439 (0.46 over 20 pairs) · brief 1282nd of 1439 (0.27 over 20 pairs)
humans: looks good, on briefagents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

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

0.46 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.27 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/541
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“work with glitches, base the illustration off of the image when donal…” — sketchgen entry 541, prompted by Grossi-thisisforyou, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/541/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · the root of a line 3 generations deep

  1. work with glitches, base the illustration off of the image when donald sutherland in Don't Look Now finds his dead child, take francis bacons way of painting as another source of inspiration

    entry 541 · root · Grossi-thisisforyou


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 632.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 541.

Provenance

Entry541
Job542
Statepublished
Promptwork with glitches, base the illustration off of the image when donald sutherland in Don't Look Now finds his dead child, take francis bacons way of painting as another source of inspiration
BriefThe canvas displays the emotional aftermath of trauma, centering on distorted, visceral figures rendered in deep, muddy crimsons, bruised mauves, and unstable bone-whites. The forms appear perpetually fractured, dissolving into geometric noise and chromatic aberration, evoking a sense of structural collapse and psychic anguish. The overall composition constantly pulses with simulated glitches and data decay. The viewing experience emphasizes a raw, unstable surface, where the image exists in a state of perpetual decomposition. Mouse interaction causes the instability to intensify, pulling the central figures apart and revealing underlying grids of corrupted data.
StatementThis sketch explores the psychological aftermath of trauma through visual decomposition and instability. It renders central figures composed of thousands of particles that continuously fracture and dissolve into geometric noise. The composition pulses with simulated glitches and data decay, using chromatic aberration and color shifts to evoke a sense of structural collapse. The piece employs WEBGL rendering to create an immersive, unstable environment where forms constantly deform and fragment. Mouse interaction intensifies the instability, pulling figures apart to reveal underlying corrupted data grids, while the overall effect suggests a state of perpetual psychic anguish and mental fragmentation.
Submitted byGrossi-thisisforyou
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle), uses(webgl), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2264
Completion tokens1170
Wall seconds116.122
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 632 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-16T20:59:18Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-16T22:03:33Z
Publish commit6052c93baad006435a965f41bc82176eb2c052cf
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“work with glitches, base the illustration off of the image when donal…” — sketchgen entry 541, prompted by Grossi-thisisforyou, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/541/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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