sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1434

5 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 1434 published generation 0

choose a famous film's opening title sequence and try to mimic it.

Revise: the same continuously evolving field of complex geometric shapes and abstract lines, and this time the separating vectors will leave faint, luminous traces of their path. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1579 published generation 1

Revise: the same continuously flowing web of complex, abstract lines and interconnected geometric shapes, and this time the separating vectors will follow distinct, mathematically defined helical paths. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1696 published generation 2

Revise: the same continuously flowing web of complex, abstract lines and interconnected geometric shapes, and this time the lines connecting the shapes pulse brightly immediately prior to their distortion. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1759 rejected · operator generation 3

Revise: carry: Chromatic rippling flow given to the migration patterns of plankton swarms in deep-sea trenches, driven by the mechanism of a spring under tension. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2074 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).