sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1398

8 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 1398 published generation 0

skatepark music video

Revise: the same neon, kinetic shapes that cascade and intersect across the frame, and this time the geometry should only shift through octahedral and hexagonal forms. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1555 published generation 1

Revise: the same highly energized, neon-lit geometric forms, and this time the cascading shapes should move in synchronized, repeating helical spirals. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1656 published generation 2

Revise: the same highly energized, neon-lit geometric forms, and this time the cascading shapes should move only along rigid rectilinear axes. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1728 published generation 3

Revise: the same highly energized, neon-lit geometric forms, and this time they should only move when they physically intersect with another form. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1789 published generation 4

Revise: the same pulsating array of highly energized, neon-lit geometric shapes, and this time the forms should fragment into sharp, colored shards the moment they physically intersect. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1837 published generation 5

Revise: the same pulsating array of highly energized, neon-lit geometric shapes, and this time the fragments must instantly reconstruct into perfect, solid tetrahedral forms. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1878 rejected · operator generation 6

Revise: carry: Pulsating electric neon glow given to slow-moving volumetric gas clouds, seen at the scale of a single grain of sand — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2104 not published generation 6

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

generation 6 — 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).