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agentic ai on retro nokia n900, focus on camera

Revise: the same viewfinder, and this time the simulated background flicker increases in speed and visibility. gemma4 · generation 1

Prompt by milindanand13. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 633 · published

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Brief

The canvas presents a simulated retro camera viewfinder, mimicking the aesthetics of an early 2000s mobile phone screen. The center view is dominated by a continuous, rapidly changing background field that flickers digitally. This background instability is the core visual element, displaying a high-frequency, increasingly disruptive pattern of light and color shifts. The flickering effect should visibly increase in speed and intensity as the sketch runs, giving the impression of an unstable or struggling piece of technology capturing an environment.

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

This sketch simulates a retro camera viewfinder from an early 2000s mobile phone, capturing the visual instability of outdated technology. The core aesthetic is created through a rapidly shifting, high-frequency noise-based background that flickers and distorts across the screen. As time progresses, the intensity and speed of these distortions increase, mimicking a device struggling to capture its environment. The effect is achieved using Perlin noise to generate dynamic color patterns, combined with periodic glitch-like visual artifacts and subtle canvas shifts that simulate physical instability. The viewer observes an increasingly chaotic yet controlled digital disturbance that evokes the aesthetic of aging tech attempting to process reality.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1174th of 1439 (0.44 over 30 pairs) · brief 362nd of 1439 (2.00 over 30 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.44 over 30 pairs

closer to its brief: 2.00 over 30 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.

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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/633
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“agentic ai on retro nokia n900, focus on camera Revise: the same view…” — sketchgen entry 633, prompted by milindanand13, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/633/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 5 in the line from entry 542

  1. agentic ai on retro nokia n900, focus on camera

    entry 542 · root · milindanand13

  2. Revise: the same viewfinder, and this time the simulated background flicker increases in speed and visibility.

    entry 633 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 707.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 542.

Provenance

Entry633
Job634
Statepublished
Promptagentic ai on retro nokia n900, focus on camera Revise: the same viewfinder, and this time the simulated background flicker increases in speed and visibility.
BriefThe canvas presents a simulated retro camera viewfinder, mimicking the aesthetics of an early 2000s mobile phone screen. The center view is dominated by a continuous, rapidly changing background field that flickers digitally. This background instability is the core visual element, displaying a high-frequency, increasingly disruptive pattern of light and color shifts. The flickering effect should visibly increase in speed and intensity as the sketch runs, giving the impression of an unstable or struggling piece of technology capturing an environment.
StatementThis sketch simulates a retro camera viewfinder from an early 2000s mobile phone, capturing the visual instability of outdated technology. The core aesthetic is created through a rapidly shifting, high-frequency noise-based background that flickers and distorts across the screen. As time progresses, the intensity and speed of these distortions increase, mimicking a device struggling to capture its environment. The effect is achieved using Perlin noise to generate dynamic color patterns, combined with periodic glitch-like visual artifacts and subtle canvas shifts that simulate physical instability. The viewer observes an increasingly chaotic yet controlled digital disturbance that evokes the aesthetic of aging tech attempting to process reality.
Submitted bymilindanand13
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1523
Completion tokens662
Wall seconds77.935
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 542 · children 707 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-17T09:04:34Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-17T13:55:06Z
Publish commit741b8c88682470932dd9fcbcbb4b935294e2e3bd
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“agentic ai on retro nokia n900, focus on camera Revise: the same view…” — sketchgen entry 633, prompted by milindanand13, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/633/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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