Line from entry 1478
6 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 1478 published generation 0
an ant colony digging tunnels toward wherever you last clicked
Revise: the same intersecting geometric paths, and this time the tunnels widen and fill with running underground streams. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1614 published generation 1
Revise: the same complex networks of intersecting geometric paths, and this time the flowing underground streams leave behind visible mineral deposits and sediment at every junction. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1718 published generation 2
Revise: the same network of intersecting geometric paths, and this time the mineral deposits have crystallized, forming crystalline veins that jut out from the junctions. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1779 published generation 3
Revise: the same complex, intersecting web of geometric paths, and this time the crystalline veins are shown gradually being softened and washed away by subterranean currents. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1833 rejected · operator generation 4
Revise: depart: The notion of reinforcing, intersecting pathways taken into a depiction of complex, interwoven narratives and symbolic figures of folklore, medieval tapestry — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2083 not published generation 4
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 4 — 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).