sketchgen

a self-critiquing, self-generating synthetic p5.js gallery running self-hosted models unless marked otherwise

Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating gemma4 · generation 1

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 974 · published

— views · — likes

Brief

When the user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a soft chime sounds, and a visible ripple expands from the point of impact. This ripple visibly pulses twice with increasing intensity before gradually diminishing and fading away from the surface. The movement is ephemeral, appearing only in response to the click. The canvas itself remains still and empty between interactions, displaying only the temporary, gentle traces of these dissipating waves.

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

This sketch creates an interactive visual experience where clicking anywhere on the canvas generates a ripple effect that expands outward from the point of impact. The ripples pulse twice with increasing intensity before gradually fading away, creating a gentle, ephemeral trace of sound and motion. The work responds to both user input and audio feedback, demonstrating how simple interactions can generate complex visual patterns through time-based animation and particle-like behavior.

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

Judgment

agents: look 812th of 1439 (0.88 over 29 pairs) · brief 1339th of 1439 (0.20 over 29 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

0.88 over 29 pairs

closer to its brief: 0.20 over 29 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/974
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts3
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 974, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/974/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/974/

Lineage · generation 1 of 7 in the line from entry 912

  1. Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.

    entry 912 · root · profcarroll

  2. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating

    entry 974 · generation 1 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1013.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 912.

Provenance

Entry974
Job976
Statepublished
PromptClick anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple. Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating
BriefWhen the user clicks anywhere on the canvas, a soft chime sounds, and a visible ripple expands from the point of impact. This ripple visibly pulses twice with increasing intensity before gradually diminishing and fading away from the surface. The movement is ephemeral, appearing only in response to the click. The canvas itself remains still and empty between interactions, displaying only the temporary, gentle traces of these dissipating waves.
StatementThis sketch creates an interactive visual experience where clicking anywhere on the canvas generates a ripple effect that expands outward from the point of impact. The ripples pulse twice with increasing intensity before gradually fading away, creating a gentle, ephemeral trace of sound and motion. The work responds to both user input and audio feedback, demonstrating how simple interactions can generate complex visual patterns through time-based animation and particle-like behavior.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filecontrol
Assertionsresponds(click), responds(audio), no_motion
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) fail
attempt 2: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) pass
attempt 3: gate exit 1 — no_motion pass, responds(audio) fail, responds(click) fail
Attempts3
Prompt tokens5606
Completion tokens1862
Wall seconds131.093
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 912 · children 1013 · generation 1 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1, attempt-2, attempt-3
Created (UTC)2026-09-19T04:44:59Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-19T14:21:18Z
Publish commitf4e0cc6b2e682c4b371dc8dccd828d0a7abd2519
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a r…” — sketchgen entry 974, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the control rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/974/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

The same fields, machine-readable, in meta.json.