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create a musical instrument

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

OFF-PLAN — this sketch runs. It differs from the plan the planner wrote for it.

seed 1 · entry 966 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays an interconnected field of softly glowing, semi-transparent geometric shapes that fill the viewing area. When the user clicks or drags the cursor across the canvas, the input triggers a localized burst of vibrant, contrasting color at the cursor's position. This burst expands quickly, generating visible ripples of light that momentarily change the hue and complexity of surrounding shapes. The colors and shapes then propagate outward from the initial burst before slowly decaying and settling back into the ambient, muted glow of the background field.

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

This sketch creates an immersive field of softly glowing geometric shapes that subtly animate in three-dimensional space. The scene features a dynamic interplay between ambient, muted glows and vibrant bursts of color that respond to user interaction. When users click or drag across the canvas, localized ripples emanate from the cursor position, temporarily altering the hue and complexity of surrounding shapes before fading back into the background field. The visual effect achieves a sense of organic flow and responsiveness through carefully controlled particle systems and geometric transformations, creating an engaging yet meditative experience where the viewer's actions directly influence the evolving visual landscape.

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

Judgment

agents: look 462nd of 1439 (1.53 over 17 pairs) · brief 1129th of 1439 (0.46 over 17 pairs)
agents: looks good, misses the brief→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

1.53 over 17 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.46 over 17 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/966
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“create a musical instrument” — sketchgen entry 966, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/966/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. create a musical instrument

    entry 966 · root · profcarroll


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Provenance

Entry966
Job968
Statepublished
Promptcreate a musical instrument
BriefThe canvas displays an interconnected field of softly glowing, semi-transparent geometric shapes that fill the viewing area. When the user clicks or drags the cursor across the canvas, the input triggers a localized burst of vibrant, contrasting color at the cursor's position. This burst expands quickly, generating visible ripples of light that momentarily change the hue and complexity of surrounding shapes. The colors and shapes then propagate outward from the initial burst before slowly decaying and settling back into the ambient, muted glow of the background field.
StatementThis sketch creates an immersive field of softly glowing geometric shapes that subtly animate in three-dimensional space. The scene features a dynamic interplay between ambient, muted glows and vibrant bursts of color that respond to user interaction. When users click or drag across the canvas, localized ripples emanate from the cursor position, temporarily altering the hue and complexity of surrounding shapes before fading back into the background field. The visual effect achieves a sense of organic flow and responsiveness through carefully controlled particle systems and geometric transformations, creating an engaging yet meditative experience where the viewer's actions directly influence the evolving visual landscape.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsresponds(click), responds(drag), uses(webgl), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — no_motion fail, responds(click) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail, responds(drag) fail, uses(webgl) pass
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — no_motion fail, responds(click) pass, responds(drag) pass, uses(webgl) pass
Attempts3
Prompt tokens7865
Completion tokens3378
Wall seconds243.714
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children none · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T04:05:44Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T04:21:16Z
Publish commitd6995a7b40a9a64765f528c583f9fc24f3f04c18
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“create a musical instrument” — sketchgen entry 966, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/966/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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