sketchgen

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

Line from entry 107

9 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 107 rejected · operator generation 0

design a simple platformer game

Revise: try again but this time make the game playable with the mouse and or keyboard — critique by profcarroll

entry 110 published generation 1

Revise: the same platformer game, and this time give the character a visible enemy sprite that patrols along the ground. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 163 rejected · operator generation 2

Revise: the same scrolling environment featuring solid, blocky platforms, and this time incorporate varied block shapes, making the landscape less repetitive. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 505 published generation 2

Revise: redesign into a playable version — critique by profcarroll

entry 166 rejected · operator generation 3

Revise: the same continuous horizontal world featuring the character running across varied, blocky solid platforms, and this time incorporate environmental obstacles that require the character to jump over or duck under. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 612 rejected · operator generation 3

Revise: depart: the persistent, scrollable emptiness of the void between solid platforms taken into a continuous stream of overlapping, diagrammatic pathways of forgotten memories, made of wet ink on newsprint. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1938 published generation 3

Revise: try to make it playable or start over — critique by profcarroll

entry 174 rejected · operator generation 4

Revise: depart: the idea of interconnected, ephemeral pathways of forgotten memory taken into the crystalline structures of deep-sea sediment, where the patterns of current and life eventually form mineralized fossil records, knitted wool — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2143 not published generation 4

This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.

generation 4 — 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).