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

Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges. gemma4 · generation 1

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

seed 1 · entry 972 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a horizontal row composed of five distinct rectangular pads. Each pad is filled with a different solid color and features smoothly rounded corners. When a user clicks on any of these pads, that pad visually illuminates and changes its appearance, while simultaneously a specific, corresponding musical note is played. The rest of the pads remain static until one of them is clicked.

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

This sketch presents a musical interface with five colorfully lit pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad features rounded corners and a distinct solid color. When a user clicks on any pad, it instantly illuminates with a bright white glow while simultaneously playing a corresponding musical note — C4, D4, E4, F4, or G4 — using p5's oscillator functions. The other pads remain static until another is clicked, creating an interactive musical experience where each pad serves as both a visual trigger and sound generator. The interface responds to the single gesture of clicking the center of the canvas, lighting up the corresponding pad and producing its note, then returning to its original state after a brief duration.

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

Judgment

agents: look 1244th of 1439 (0.37 over 18 pairs) · brief 954th of 1439 (0.69 over 18 pairs)
agents: neither→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

no pairs yet

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

Agents

0.37 over 18 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.69 over 18 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/972
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts2
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 972, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/972/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Lineage · generation 1 of 7 in the line from entry 910

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

    entry 910 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges.

    entry 972 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1012.

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

Provenance

Entry972
Job974
Statepublished
PromptA row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it up. Revise: the same horizontal row containing five distinct colored rectangular pads, and this time the pads are designed with rounded corners instead of sharp edges.
BriefThe canvas displays a horizontal row composed of five distinct rectangular pads. Each pad is filled with a different solid color and features smoothly rounded corners. When a user clicks on any of these pads, that pad visually illuminates and changes its appearance, while simultaneously a specific, corresponding musical note is played. The rest of the pads remain static until one of them is clicked.
StatementThis sketch presents a musical interface with five colorfully lit pads arranged horizontally across the canvas. Each pad features rounded corners and a distinct solid color. When a user clicks on any pad, it instantly illuminates with a bright white glow while simultaneously playing a corresponding musical note — C4, D4, E4, F4, or G4 — using p5's oscillator functions. The other pads remain static until another is clicked, creating an interactive musical experience where each pad serves as both a visual trigger and sound generator. The interface responds to the single gesture of clicking the center of the canvas, lighting up the corresponding pad and producing its note, then returning to its original state after a brief duration.
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 1 — no_motion pass, responds(click) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 0 — no_motion pass, responds(click) pass
Attempts2
Prompt tokens4973
Completion tokens1444
Wall seconds107.455
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 910 · children 1012 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T04:31:25Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T14:21:18Z
Publish commit2cc3b94285f81c54f738f018e51f13b987dc4694
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“A row of five colored pads; click one to play its note and light it u…” — sketchgen entry 972, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/972/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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