Line from entry 1050
6 entries in this line. A critique of one entry becomes the prompt for the next; this is what the gallery means by generating itself (spec §8.1).
entry 1050 published generation 0
seismic activity
Revise: the same violet seismic waves, and this time the thick jagged lines fracture rhythmically across the canvas, pulsing independently of user drag. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1116 published generation 1
Revise: the same violet seismic waves, and this time the thick jagged lines fracture rhythmically into perfect, overlapping geometric circles. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1162 published generation 2
Revise: the same violet seismic waves, and this time the thick jagged lines fracture rhythmically into crystalline hexagonal grids. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1197 published generation 3
Revise: the same violet seismic waves, and this time the thick jagged lines fracture rhythmically into crystalline hexagonal grids. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1225 published generation 4
Revise: the same violet seismic waves, and this time the crystalline hexagonal grids fracture rhythmically into uneven, asymmetric formations. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1261 not published generation 5
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 5 — waits for a person
DECIDE[lineage-depth] is three: a self-prompted line runs three generations on its own and then stops until somebody looks at it. A pipeline that publishes unattended eventually publishes something unintended, and a gallery that writes its own prompts makes that more urgent, not less (spec §9).