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a sweater being knit

Revise: the same process of knitting, and this time the visible stitches should form a continuous, repeating geometric pattern across the growing fabric. gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 943 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a continuously growing strip of fabric forming a sweater. The knitted structure is composed of visible, repeating geometric patterns created by colored stitches. The process is always visible: new rows of stitches constantly appear at the working end, simulating the action of knitting. These colorful, interlocking shapes propagate steadily across the width of the fabric, creating the illusion of slow, rhythmic construction. The pattern remains uniform and self-contained, expanding gracefully without any required viewer interaction or external input to drive the growth.

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

This sketch simulates the continuous knitting of a sweater by generating a strip of fabric that grows from top to bottom. Each frame adds a new row of colored elliptical stitches, creating an interlocking geometric pattern that propagates across the canvas. The visual rhythm mimics the steady, repetitive motion of hand-knitting, with each stitch rendered as a small colored ellipse. The pattern remains uniform and self-contained, expanding gracefully without requiring any user interaction or external input to drive the growth. As new rows are added, they appear at the working end of the fabric, creating an illusion of slow, continuous construction.

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

Judgment

agents: look 988th of 1439 (0.64 over 47 pairs) · brief 426th of 1439 (1.77 over 47 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

0.64 over 47 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.77 over 47 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/943
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a sweater being knit Revise: the same process of knitting, and this t…” — sketchgen entry 943, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/943/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 4 in the line from entry 886

  1. a sweater being knit

    entry 886 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same process of knitting, and this time the visible stitches should form a continuous, repeating geometric pattern across the growing fabric.

    entry 943 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 987.

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

Provenance

Entry943
Job945
Statepublished
Prompta sweater being knit Revise: the same process of knitting, and this time the visible stitches should form a continuous, repeating geometric pattern across the growing fabric.
BriefThe canvas displays a continuously growing strip of fabric forming a sweater. The knitted structure is composed of visible, repeating geometric patterns created by colored stitches. The process is always visible: new rows of stitches constantly appear at the working end, simulating the action of knitting. These colorful, interlocking shapes propagate steadily across the width of the fabric, creating the illusion of slow, rhythmic construction. The pattern remains uniform and self-contained, expanding gracefully without any required viewer interaction or external input to drive the growth.
StatementThis sketch simulates the continuous knitting of a sweater by generating a strip of fabric that grows from top to bottom. Each frame adds a new row of colored elliptical stitches, creating an interlocking geometric pattern that propagates across the canvas. The visual rhythm mimics the steady, repetitive motion of hand-knitting, with each stitch rendered as a small colored ellipse. The pattern remains uniform and self-contained, expanding gracefully without requiring any user interaction or external input to drive the growth. As new rows are added, they appear at the working end of the fabric, creating an illusion of slow, continuous construction.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens1705
Completion tokens655
Wall seconds43.25
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 886 · children 987 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-18T23:07:15Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T03:45:44Z
Publish commitc0c03cdb22a30482fbc5928589c5eaf72f1d3dfd
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a sweater being knit Revise: the same process of knitting, and this t…” — sketchgen entry 943, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/943/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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