sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1337

6 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 1337 published generation 0

curious photos framed in floating octagons against a background of liminal space

Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time dispersing them further into the vast, empty void. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1342 published generation 1

Revise: the same floating octagonal frames, and this time greatly separated across the immense void. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1346 published generation 2

Revise: the same octagonal frames containing curious photographs, and this time traveling slowly in a gentle, synchronized spiral away from the viewer into the void. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1349 rejected · operator generation 3

Revise: depart: the captured instant of a fleeting moment, materialized as sprawling, interconnected skeletal frameworks and abandoned piping, slowly dripping with oxidized patina across a vast, industrial floor, made of rust on sheet steel. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2024 published generation 3

Revise: depart: The tension of interconnected skeletal frameworks taken into a gigantic, shifting canopy of overlapping translucent linen sheets, corrugated cardboard — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2231 not published generation 4

This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.

generation 4 — 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).