Line from entry 1099
4 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 1099 published generation 0
jigsaw puzzle
Revise: the same digital jigsaw puzzle, and this time the pieces are more assembled, showing a larger completed landscape view. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1210 published generation 1
Revise: depart: The idea of incomplete, disconnected segments shown in the puzzle pieces taken into a detailed diagram of branching roots, wet ink on newsprint. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1995 published generation 2
Revise: depart: the dense pattern of branching root lines taken into an illustration of overlapping steam pipes and subterranean utility veins, rendered in wet black ink on aged newsprint. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2182 rejected · operator generation 3
generation 3 — 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).