Line from entry 1244
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 1244 published generation 0
a field of tiny compass needles that slowly turn toward the cursor, then drift back to a shared north when it leaves
Revise: the same dynamic field of tiny, compass-like pointers, and this time with a slightly increased overall size. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1274 published generation 1
Revise: the same constantly moving field of tiny, compass-like pointers, and this time reacting with an increased, immediate magnitude toward the cursor. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1302 published generation 2
Revise: the same dense, active field of tiny, pointer-like shapes, simulating compass needles, and this time with their initial idle drift becoming highly volatile and erratic. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1325 not published generation 3
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
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).