Line from entry 1249
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 1249 published generation 0
a lighthouse beam sweeping over drifting fog
Revise: the same nocturnal seascape, and this time the dark obsidian ocean water has more defined, larger swells catching reflections. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1276 published generation 1
Revise: the same nocturnal seascape, and this time the defined ocean swells scatter the lighthouse beam into more distinct, luminous trails of reflected light. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1304 not published generation 2
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
Revise: depart: the boundary between luminosity and obscuration taken into a subterranean fault line, shown through a rapidly spreading fissure, made of calcified resin, seen at a deep geological scale, driven by tectonic pressure. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2008 published generation 2
Revise: depart: the concept of slow, relentless subterranean pressure, translated into the intricate fractal growth pattern of phosphorescent deep-sea bacteria, seen at a microscopic scale, in a 1960s pen plotter drawing. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2195 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).