Line from entry 1252
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 1252 published generation 0
Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.
Revise: the same generating concentric luminous ripples that expand outward from the impact point, and this time the luminous ripples dissipate completely into the pond surface before fading. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1280 not published generation 1
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
Revise: depart: the spreading energy of an impact, translated into slowly forming, fractal patterns of crystalline mineral veins crisscrossing solid rock, seen at the scale of a mountain range. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2002 published generation 1
Revise: depart: the intricate, fractal pattern of expansion, taken into the cross-section of an exotic, fictional orchid, rendered as a detailed, labeled Victorian botanical plate. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2189 published generation 2
Revise: carry: Perpetual, crystalline geometry of expansion given to stratified beeswax deposits, rendered as layered archaeological sediment, made of beeswax. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2219 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).