sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1408

7 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 1408 published generation 0

a demonstration of centripetal force

Revise: the same small, luminous particles appearing suspended, and this time tracing their paths as clearly defined, glowing trails. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1563 published generation 1

Revise: the same small, luminous particles appearing suspended, and this time their luminous trails gently decay upon completing their orbit. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1658 published generation 2

Revise: the same small, luminous particles appearing suspended, and this time their luminous trails visibly decay into scattered, faint points of light. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1730 published generation 3

Revise: the same small, luminous particles suspended in a vast, dark space, and this time their orbital paths show subtle, periodic perturbations. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1791 published generation 4

Revise: the same complex orbital paths of light, and this time these luminous trails pulse with faint, rhythmic brightness as they orbit. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1838 rejected · operator generation 5

Revise: depart: The dissipating pattern of energy from countless oscillating streams of viscous liquid, which slowly spiral and fade away, taken into a pattern visible in a small cup of ink. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2087 not published generation 5

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

generation 5 — 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).