sketchgen

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

Line from entry 1481

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 1481 published generation 0

a tide pool where the anemones close when the mouse comes near

Revise: the same vibrant tide pool environment, and this time the background water reflects sunlight more brightly when the anemones are open. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1616 published generation 1

Revise: the same vibrant tide pool environment, and this time the background water reflects sunlight more brightly when the anemones are open. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1666 published generation 2

Revise: the same vibrant tide pool environment, and this time the moving water surface ripples outwards from the anemones when they are fully open. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1737 published generation 3

Revise: the same vibrant cross-section of a tide pool, and this time the background water exhibits subtle, swirling currents that flow directly outwards from the newly formed ripples. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1796 published generation 4

Revise: the same vivid, cross-section view of a tide pool, and this time suspended sediment trails visibly flow outwards, caught in the propagating current. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1864 rejected · operator generation 5

Revise: depart: The pattern of localized, triggering forces propagating outwards through a stable medium, rendered as delicate fault lines etched into vast, polished obsidian, made of mineral glass. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2089 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).