recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background
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Brief
The canvas depicts a highly stylized, repeating pattern characteristic of early personal computing operating systems. The visual field is dominated by muted, structured gradients, predominantly in shades of teal, blue, and deep gray. These geometric shapes create a sense of depth and uniform digital texture, mimicking the iconic desktop background of the mid-1990s. The imagery is purely decorative and remains fixed and static, providing a fixed, nostalgic computational environment that does not react to mouse input or physical interaction.
Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited
This sketch creates a nostalgic digital environment reminiscent of early personal computer desktops from the mid-1990s. Through carefully orchestrated gradients and repeating geometric patterns, it mimics the visual language of vintage operating systems with muted teal, blue, and gray tones. The composition features layered rectangles with subtle alpha blending that create depth and texture, while a faint grid reinforces the structured, digital aesthetic. The work remains entirely static, fulfilling the requirement for a fixed, non-interactive visual field that evokes the look and feel of early computing interfaces without any motion or user interaction.
The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.
Judgment
Humans
1.81 over 3 pairs
closer to its brief: 0.43 over 3 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
0.31 over 43 pairs
closer to its brief: 1.96 over 43 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/69 |
|---|---|
| Raw sketch | sketch/sketch.js |
| Raw page | sketch/index.html |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background” — sketchgen entry 69, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/69/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background
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Provenance
| Entry | 69 |
|---|---|
| Job | 70 |
| State | published |
| Prompt | recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background |
| Brief | The canvas depicts a highly stylized, repeating pattern characteristic of early personal computing operating systems. The visual field is dominated by muted, structured gradients, predominantly in shades of teal, blue, and deep gray. These geometric shapes create a sense of depth and uniform digital texture, mimicking the iconic desktop background of the mid-1990s. The imagery is purely decorative and remains fixed and static, providing a fixed, nostalgic computational environment that does not react to mouse input or physical interaction. |
| Statement | This sketch creates a nostalgic digital environment reminiscent of early personal computer desktops from the mid-1990s. Through carefully orchestrated gradients and repeating geometric patterns, it mimics the visual language of vintage operating systems with muted teal, blue, and gray tones. The composition features layered rectangles with subtle alpha blending that create depth and texture, while a faint grid reinforces the structured, digital aesthetic. The work remains entirely static, fulfilling the requirement for a fixed, non-interactive visual field that evokes the look and feel of early computing interfaces without any motion or user interaction. |
| Submitted by | profcarroll |
| Planner | gemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1 |
| Executor | qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1 |
| Rules file | control |
| Assertions | no_motion |
| Gate | attempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass |
| Attempts | 1 |
| Prompt tokens | 1188 |
| Completion tokens | 587 |
| Wall seconds | 66.566 |
| Node shape | VM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94 |
| Seed | 1 |
| Lineage | parent — · children 92, 499 · generation 1 · critique by — |
| Source | repository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1 |
| Created (UTC) | 2026-09-14T17:33:10Z |
| Published (UTC) | 2026-09-14T17:36:32Z |
| Publish commit | b4bc6912659a80390447a73d961308003382239a |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Attribution | “recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background” — sketchgen entry 69, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/69/ Licensed CC BY 4.0. |
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