sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1453

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 1453 published generation 0

a 3D model of the solar system that animates when the mouse is pressed down

Revise: the same three-dimensional model of the solar system, and this time displaying planets at their proportional sizes. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1590 published generation 1

Revise: the same dynamic, three-dimensional model of the solar system, and this time include clearly glowing orbital paths connecting all the celestial bodies. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1704 published generation 2

Revise: the same three-dimensional model of the solar system, and this time ensure the planets are accurately scaled to realistic proportions. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1768 published generation 3

Revise: the same three-dimensional model of the solar system, and this time ensure the orbital paths glow brightly connecting all the celestial bodies. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1824 published generation 4

Revise: the same three-dimensional model of the solar system, and this time featuring visible planets rendered at accurate real-world scales. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1870 rejected · operator generation 5

Revise: depart: the mathematical concept of orbital repetition taken into a series of linked, cantilevered clockwork sculptures, made of polished brass, seen at the tabletop scale, in a 1920s Bauhaus exercise. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2097 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).