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a sweater being knit

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

seed 1 · entry 886 · published

— views · — likes

Brief

The canvas displays a growing piece of fabric being created by needles. Brightly coloured strands of yarn stretch and loop across the surface, forming visible stitches in a pattern that progresses upward. The process of knitting is the main focus, showing the yarn tension and the rhythm of the needles. As the viewer moves the mouse across the canvas, the knitting pattern responds, changing the colour of the next stitches or altering the stitch density, giving the appearance of a controlled, guided design process.

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

This sketch simulates a knitting process where yarn strands are progressively added to create fabric. The "needle" moves upward across the canvas, dropping stitches that form a visible pattern. The color of each new stitch is determined by the mouse position—when the mouse is moved toward one side of the canvas, the colors shift toward a specific hue. The density of the stitching increases with time and responds to mouse movement, creating a dynamic visual effect. As the pattern grows upward, it shows the rhythm and tension of needlework, with each new stitch connected by thin yarn lines that trace the path of the imaginary needle's 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 722nd of 1439 (1.03 over 35 pairs) · brief 1225th of 1439 (0.34 over 35 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.03 over 35 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.34 over 35 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/886
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a sweater being knit” — sketchgen entry 886, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/886/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/886/

Lineage · the root of a line 4 generations deep

  1. a sweater being knit

    entry 886 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 943.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 886.

Provenance

Entry886
Job887
Statepublished
Prompta sweater being knit
BriefThe canvas displays a growing piece of fabric being created by needles. Brightly coloured strands of yarn stretch and loop across the surface, forming visible stitches in a pattern that progresses upward. The process of knitting is the main focus, showing the yarn tension and the rhythm of the needles. As the viewer moves the mouse across the canvas, the knitting pattern responds, changing the colour of the next stitches or altering the stitch density, giving the appearance of a controlled, guided design process.
StatementThis sketch simulates a knitting process where yarn strands are progressively added to create fabric. The "needle" moves upward across the canvas, dropping stitches that form a visible pattern. The color of each new stitch is determined by the mouse position—when the mouse is moved toward one side of the canvas, the colors shift toward a specific hue. The density of the stitching increases with time and responds to mouse movement, creating a dynamic visual effect. As the pattern grows upward, it shows the rhythm and tension of needlework, with each new stitch connected by thin yarn lines that trace the path of the imaginary needle's motion.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v2
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle), responds(drag)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(drag) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1538
Completion tokens839
Wall seconds48.157
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 943 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-18T16:59:11Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-18T18:32:01Z
Publish commitb6fc9b8ca6d955019dce07deabffa8417ca947f5
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a sweater being knit” — sketchgen entry 886, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/886/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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