sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1462

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 1462 published generation 0

a loom weaving a pattern it hasn't decided on yet

Revise: the same continuous interweaving of brightly colored threads, and this time the threads only intersect when forming equilateral triangles. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1598 published generation 1

Revise: the same dynamic weave of brightly colored threads, and this time the threads only intersect at points where three distinct colors meet. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1681 published generation 2

Revise: the same dynamically woven tapestry of brightly colored threads, and this time the intersection points must only occur at angles of perfect ninety degrees. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1758 rejected · operator generation 3

Revise: depart: the principle of triple confluence, visualized as the spontaneous, slow formation of crystalline lattices, made of water molecules, seen at a single grain of sand — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2073 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).