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A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

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

seed 1 · entry 910 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads. These pads are static elements, but each is interactive. When a user clicks on any of the five pads, the sketch provides an audible musical note corresponding to that pad's selection. Simultaneously, the clicked pad visually reacts by illuminating or changing its color to highlight the interaction.

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

This sketch presents a static musical interface with five interactive pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad displays a distinct color and musical note frequency, forming a simple keyboard-like arrangement. When a user clicks on any pad, it instantly illuminates with a bright yellow highlight while simultaneously triggering a corresponding sine wave tone through the p5.sound library. The visual feedback is immediate and brief, lasting only 300 milliseconds, before returning to its original color. This design demonstrates both interactive audio generation and visual response within the constraints of a single-user gesture, creating an engaging yet minimal musical experience that responds directly to user input with both sound and sight.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1367th of 1439 (0.21 over 25 pairs) · brief 524th of 1439 (1.51 over 25 pairs)
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Humans

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Agents

0.21 over 25 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.51 over 25 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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Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/910
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 910, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/910/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.

    entry 910 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 972.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 910.

Provenance

Entry910
Job912
Statepublished
PromptA row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up.
BriefThe canvas displays a horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads. These pads are static elements, but each is interactive. When a user clicks on any of the five pads, the sketch provides an audible musical note corresponding to that pad's selection. Simultaneously, the clicked pad visually reacts by illuminating or changing its color to highlight the interaction.
StatementThis sketch presents a static musical interface with five interactive pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad displays a distinct color and musical note frequency, forming a simple keyboard-like arrangement. When a user clicks on any pad, it instantly illuminates with a bright yellow highlight while simultaneously triggering a corresponding sine wave tone through the p5.sound library. The visual feedback is immediate and brief, lasting only 300 milliseconds, before returning to its original color. This design demonstrates both interactive audio generation and visual response within the constraints of a single-user gesture, creating an engaging yet minimal musical experience that responds directly to user input with both sound and sight.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsno_motion, responds(click)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2367
Completion tokens702
Wall seconds51.7
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 972 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-18T20:02:14Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T03:40:58Z
Publish commit80a207f61c7f57368185082a17b6c0b47d619889
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 910, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/910/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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