Line from entry 1368
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 1368 published generation 0
a tide chart that breathes: horizontal bands rising and falling on a slow sine, one darker band marking high water
Revise: the same visual representation of tidal movement, and this time the horizontal bands incorporate visible, erratic surface ripples. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1533 published generation 1
Revise: the same continuous cross-section of water, and this time the surface ripples gather into visibly defined, rhythmic wave patterns. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1686 published generation 2
Revise: the same continuous, cross-sectional view of water, and this time the movement is overlaid with fine, irregular surface ripples that break the clean lines of the larger wave patterns. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1750 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).