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a demonstration of centripetal force

Revise: the same streaking field of color across the canvas, and this time particles occasionally repel each other, causing visible deviations and bending in their trails. gemma4 · generation 6 · 5 earlier revisions in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 800 · published

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Brief

A continuous field of vibrant color streams across the canvas. Thousands of small, visible streaks persist and drift, representing the paths of unseen particles. The primary movement is an organized, swirling orbital pattern, but this order is frequently disrupted. As particles pass near one another, they exert a visible repulsive force, causing their trails to sharply deviate, bend, and arc away from the perfect circular path. The entire field remains dynamic and constantly shifting, maintaining a mesmerizing, fluid quality.

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

This sketch creates a mesmerizing field of thousands of glowing particles that flow in organized swirling patterns while constantly interacting with each other. The particles follow orbital motion around the center of the canvas but are disrupted by repulsive forces when they come near one another, creating sharp deviations and arcs in their trails. Each particle leaves behind a colorful streak that persists as it moves, building up a complex tapestry of motion. The system uses spatial grid hashing to efficiently manage particle interactions without expensive all-pairs computations, ensuring smooth performance even with hundreds of simultaneous forces. The result is an ever-shifting, fluid landscape where order and chaos dance together in continuous motion.

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

Judgment

agents: look 736th of 1439 (1.01 over 20 pairs) · brief 487th of 1439 (1.60 over 20 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

A Bradley–Terry score needs pairs; none has been judged.

Agents

1.01 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.60 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/800
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a demonstration of centripetal force Revise: the same orbiting partic…” — sketchgen entry 800, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/800/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 6 of 11 in the line from entry 373

  1. a demonstration of centripetal force

    entry 373 · root · profcarroll

  2. 3 generations folded · 438, 482, 587 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time particles leave a visible, fading trail behind their continuous path.

      entry 438 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time some particles periodically accelerate outward from the central point

      entry 482 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time the fading trail left by each particle persists for a noticeable length of time.

      entry 587 · generation 3 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time the particles are occasionally perturbed from their perfect circular paths onto noticeably elliptical trajectories.

    entry 674 · generation 4 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same field of visible, streaking trails, and this time the particles are occasionally perturbed from their perfect circular paths onto noticeably elliptical trajectories.

    entry 732 · generation 5 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same streaking field of color across the canvas, and this time particles occasionally repel each other, causing visible deviations and bending in their trails.

    entry 800 · generation 6 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 850.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 373.

Provenance

Entry800
Job801
Statepublished
Prompta demonstration of centripetal force Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time particles leave a visible, fading trail behind their continuous path. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time some particles periodically accelerate outward from the central point Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time the fading trail left by each particle persists for a noticeable length of time. Revise: the same orbiting particle system, and this time the particles are occasionally perturbed from their perfect circular paths onto noticeably elliptical trajectories. Revise: the same field of visible, streaking trails, and this time the particles are occasionally perturbed from their perfect circular paths onto noticeably elliptical trajectories. Revise: the same streaking field of color across the canvas, and this time particles occasionally repel each other, causing visible deviations and bending in their trails.
BriefA continuous field of vibrant color streams across the canvas. Thousands of small, visible streaks persist and drift, representing the paths of unseen particles. The primary movement is an organized, swirling orbital pattern, but this order is frequently disrupted. As particles pass near one another, they exert a visible repulsive force, causing their trails to sharply deviate, bend, and arc away from the perfect circular path. The entire field remains dynamic and constantly shifting, maintaining a mesmerizing, fluid quality.
StatementThis sketch creates a mesmerizing field of thousands of glowing particles that flow in organized swirling patterns while constantly interacting with each other. The particles follow orbital motion around the center of the canvas but are disrupted by repulsive forces when they come near one another, creating sharp deviations and arcs in their trails. Each particle leaves behind a colorful streak that persists as it moves, building up a complex tapestry of motion. The system uses spatial grid hashing to efficiently manage particle interactions without expensive all-pairs computations, ensuring smooth performance even with hundreds of simultaneous forces. The result is an ever-shifting, fluid landscape where order and chaos dance together in continuous motion.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1+lenient
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2199
Completion tokens1154
Wall seconds117.135
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 732 · children 850 · generation 6 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-18T03:56:12Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-18T04:59:02Z
Publish commitb11aa8705579bac43240154bb9e82e0ffeb93e87
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a demonstration of centripetal force Revise: the same orbiting partic…” — sketchgen entry 800, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/800/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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