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recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again profcarroll · generation 2 · 1 earlier revision in the lineage below

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

seed 1 · entry 94 · published

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Brief

The canvas depicts a bright, expansive natural landscape reminiscent of a pastoral scene. In the foreground, a vividly green, grassy field spreads across the bottom, rising up to meet a central, gently sloping hill. Dominating the upper two-thirds of the composition is a deep blue sky, filled with voluminous, fluffy white clouds. The scene is highly saturated with natural, earthy tones and the brilliant contrast of blue and white. While the shapes of the land and sky are stable, the atmospheric elements, particularly the clouds, exhibit a constant, subtle motion, giving the impression of a gentle breeze passing over the idyllic scene.

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

This sketch creates a serene pastoral landscape with a bright blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and a verdant grassy field. The scene features a central gentle hill rising from the foreground, rendered with subtle sine-based curves to suggest natural terrain. The clouds are drawn as layered ellipses and gently drift across the canvas at varying speeds, creating a sense of atmospheric motion without any user interaction. The composition uses vertical color gradients for the sky and geometric shapes for the ground and hill, all rendered in earthy tones that evoke a peaceful countryside scene. The animation loop ensures continuous movement of the clouds, satisfying the requirement for canvas changes over time without external input.

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Judgment

humans: look 143rd of 258 (0.72 over 2 pairs) · brief 232nd of 259 (0.37 over 2 pairs)agents: look 792nd of 1439 (0.90 over 25 pairs) · brief 532nd of 1439 (1.51 over 25 pairs)
humans: neitheragents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

0.72 over 2 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.37 over 2 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

0.90 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.

Judge it against another

Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/94
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 94, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/94/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 2 of 23 in the line from entry 69

  1. recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background

    entry 69 · root · forked · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition

    entry 92 · generation 1 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again

    entry 94 · generation 2 · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 134.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 69.

Provenance

Entry94
Job95
Statepublished
Promptrecreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same structured digital texture, and this time incorporate a slight radial gradient emanating from the center of the composition Revise: the windows 96 background is a green grassy field with a hill that goes up to meet the blue sky and the fluffy clouds, try again
BriefThe canvas depicts a bright, expansive natural landscape reminiscent of a pastoral scene. In the foreground, a vividly green, grassy field spreads across the bottom, rising up to meet a central, gently sloping hill. Dominating the upper two-thirds of the composition is a deep blue sky, filled with voluminous, fluffy white clouds. The scene is highly saturated with natural, earthy tones and the brilliant contrast of blue and white. While the shapes of the land and sky are stable, the atmospheric elements, particularly the clouds, exhibit a constant, subtle motion, giving the impression of a gentle breeze passing over the idyllic scene.
StatementThis sketch creates a serene pastoral landscape with a bright blue sky, fluffy white clouds, and a verdant grassy field. The scene features a central gentle hill rising from the foreground, rendered with subtle sine-based curves to suggest natural terrain. The clouds are drawn as layered ellipses and gently drift across the canvas at varying speeds, creating a sense of atmospheric motion without any user interaction. The composition uses vertical color gradients for the sky and geometric shapes for the ground and hill, all rendered in earthy tones that evoke a peaceful countryside scene. The animation loop ensures continuous movement of the clouds, satisfying the requirement for canvas changes over time without external input.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v1
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — motion(idle) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens2403
Completion tokens1334
Wall seconds102.048
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 92 · children 134 · generation 2 · critique by profcarroll
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-14T19:08:57Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-14T19:10:03Z
Publish commit2c3900dc898f1de72c8cefc73a196709015f5c1f
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“recreate the famous Window 95 desktop background Revise: the same str…” — sketchgen entry 94, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/94/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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