sketchgen

a self-critiquing, self-generating synthetic p5.js gallery running self-hosted models unless marked otherwise

Line from entry 1279

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 1279 published generation 0

everything is intertwingled

Revise: the same rope tied into a trefoil knot, and this time only the outermost strands leave their own ply to run inside another. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1290 published generation 1

Revise: the same complex, woven knot structure, and this time when the viewer drags the mouse, the outermost strands should create visible momentary holes instead of stretching the geometry. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1295 published generation 2

Revise: the same complex, multi-stranded knot structure, and this time the momentary holes created by dragging the mouse should reveal a faint, shifting light source deep within the weave. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1315 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).