sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1450

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 1450 published generation 0

strands of DNA double helix winding and unwinding, folding and unfolding, manufacturing proteins. use spheres instead of circles. Label Adenine with letter A, Thymine with letter T, Cytosine with letter C and Guanine with letter G.

Revise: the same dynamic, three-dimensional model of the DNA double helix, and this time showing a specific segment unwinding completely to initiate strand separation. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1587 published generation 1

Revise: the same dynamic, three-dimensional molecular model of the DNA double helix, and this time labeling the corresponding base sphere with its letter (A, T, C, or G). — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1699 published generation 2

Revise: the same molecular model of the DNA double helix, and this time showing the separated single strands floating away from the main coil in separate trajectories. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1763 published generation 3

Revise: the same detailed, three-dimensional molecular representation of the DNA double helix, and this time the separated single strands begin to fold upon themselves. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1821 published generation 4

Revise: the same complex, winding molecular structure made of colored spheres arranged into a double helix, and this time showing the explicit formation and breaking of temporary hydrogen bonds between the separating base pairs. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1867 rejected · operator generation 5

Revise: depart: the structured emergence of complementary information taken into a series of interlocking gears and patterned papercraft, designed to assemble into complex sculptures, made of corrugated cardboard — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2095 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).