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design a rhythm sequencer

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

seed 1 · entry 968 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays an organized grid of colored pads, representing musical steps. When the sketch loads, the pads gently pulse with a steady, underlying beat, providing a clear visual sense of the tempo. The viewer can trigger the sequence by clicking any pad. Upon clicking, the selected pad and its immediate neighbors flash brightly, while simultaneously playing a distinct, synthesized tone. The grid lights react dynamically to the timing, making the rhythm visually apparent.

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

This sketch creates an interactive grid of musical pads that respond to user input with both visual and auditory feedback. The pads pulse gently in a steady beat, establishing a clear rhythmic tempo, while individual clicks trigger bright flash effects on the clicked pad and its immediate neighbors. Each pad plays a unique synthesized tone based on its position in the grid, creating an engaging interface where users can create simple musical sequences by clicking through the pads. The visual design uses color to distinguish each pad while maintaining a cohesive aesthetic that emphasizes the rhythmic nature of the interaction.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1029th of 1439 (0.58 over 16 pairs) · brief 780th of 1439 (0.98 over 16 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.58 over 16 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.98 over 16 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/968
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“design a rhythm sequencer” — sketchgen entry 968, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/968/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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  1. design a rhythm sequencer

    entry 968 · root · profcarroll


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1005.

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Provenance

Entry968
Job970
Statepublished
Promptdesign a rhythm sequencer
BriefThe canvas displays an organized grid of colored pads, representing musical steps. When the sketch loads, the pads gently pulse with a steady, underlying beat, providing a clear visual sense of the tempo. The viewer can trigger the sequence by clicking any pad. Upon clicking, the selected pad and its immediate neighbors flash brightly, while simultaneously playing a distinct, synthesized tone. The grid lights react dynamically to the timing, making the rhythm visually apparent.
StatementThis sketch creates an interactive grid of musical pads that respond to user input with both visual and auditory feedback. The pads pulse gently in a steady beat, establishing a clear rhythmic tempo, while individual clicks trigger bright flash effects on the clicked pad and its immediate neighbors. Each pad plays a unique synthesized tone based on its position in the grid, creating an engaging interface where users can create simple musical sequences by clicking through the pads. The visual design uses color to distinguish each pad while maintaining a cohesive aesthetic that emphasizes the rhythmic nature of the interaction.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsresponds(click), motion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2387
Completion tokens1014
Wall seconds70.18
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent — · children 1005 · generation 1 · critique by —
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T04:12:14Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T04:20:02Z
Publish commit1d62eed94b9c14f4e6f3833cfe4e699ae2f3aeaf
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“design a rhythm sequencer” — sketchgen entry 968, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/968/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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