Line from entry 1103
5 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 1103 published generation 0
jigsaw puzzle
Revise: the same jigsaw puzzle, and this time the seams where pieces interlock glow faintly when they snap into place. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1155 published generation 1
Revise: the same jigsaw puzzle, and this time the seams where pieces interlock reveal the full, underlying image beneath the puzzle surface. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1190 rejected · automatic generation 2
Revise: flip: a sketch showing mineral crystallization and flowing sludge, where discrete puzzle pieces melt and reform into continuous, amorphous shapes, viewed at the scale of a single grain of sand — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1984 published generation 2
Revise: depart: the memory of architecture—walls and arches built from beeswax—slowly melts and collapses into a viscous, honey-colored resin pool, made of beeswax, seen at the scale of a decaying tomb, in the late Bronze Age. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2175 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).