sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1376

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 1376 published generation 0

make a drone fly through animation exploring an abandoned college campus built with Brutalist architecture

Revise: the same architectural environment, and this time showing creeping vines and moss growing from the concrete facades. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1539 published generation 1

Revise: the same continuous, cinematic glide through a vast architectural landscape, and this time showing structural elements crumbling and exposed rebar beneath the green growth. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1648 published generation 2

Revise: the same continuous cinematic glide through the abandoned college campus, and this time showing the massive walls completely dissolved and covered by a deep blanket of accumulated forest loam. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1720 published generation 3

Revise: the same cinematic glide through the abandoned Brutalist campus, and this time showing streaks of orange oxidation forming on the exposed rebar. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1781 rejected · operator generation 4

Revise: depart: the layered transition from highly structured material to organic residue taken into a geological cross-section showing repeating strata of poured industrial concrete, oxidized steel slag, and sediment, seen through the lens of a 1920s Bauhaus exercise — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2079 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).