sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1427

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 1427 published generation 0

a broadcast graphics package for a TV network in 2013

Revise: the same glowing geometric visualizations consisting of interconnected planes, lines, and nodes, and this time introducing a periodic, visible brightening of the glows concentrated at the intersections. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1575 published generation 1

Revise: the glowing geometric visualizations of interconnected planes, lines, and nodes, and this time having the rotation of the individual planes synchronize into a single, visible, slow orbital path. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1692 published generation 2

Revise: the same glowing, interconnected three-dimensional planes, lines, and nodes, and this time highlighting the intensity of the glow only at the points where the planes intersect. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1754 published generation 3

Revise: the same glowing geometric structures composed of interconnected planes, lines, and nodes, and this time having the connecting lines pulse in intensity whenever two planes pass within a critical distance. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1809 published generation 4

Revise: the same continuous, vibrant field of interconnected three-dimensional geometric structures, and this time introducing a slow, subtle periodic flicker to the intensity of the glowing nodes. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1855 published generation 5

Revise: the same glowing interconnected three-dimensional planes, lines, and nodes, and this time having the entire field undergo a brief, synchronized slowdown every fifteen seconds. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1892 rejected · operator generation 6

Revise: depart: the principle of intersecting planes and connecting nodes taken into the natural fractures of petrified wood, revealed by a deepening, spreading crack. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2110 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).