Line from entry 1496
8 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 1496 published generation 0
a stained-glass window as the light moves through a whole day
Revise: the same stained-glass window, and this time the light beams cast glowing halos around the internal edges of the geometric pieces. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1627 published generation 1
Revise: the same complex structure of geometric stained-glass panels, and this time the sweeping beams of light pulse and contract rhythmically around the internal edges. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1673 published generation 2
Revise: the same complex stained-glass structure, and this time the pulsating light beams refract and shift through the rainbow spectrum as they trace the internal edges. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1743 published generation 3
Revise: the same complex stained-glass structure, and this time the glowing light pulses become rapid and erratic, splintering into visible, colorful fragments. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1801 published generation 4
Revise: the same complex stained-glass structure, and this time the light fragments glow and coalesce into slow, undulating waves that trace the major internal edges. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1847 published generation 5
Revise: the same complex stained-glass structure, and this time the scattered colorful shards glow and spiral inward, converging back toward the central light source. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1885 rejected · operator generation 6
Revise: depart: The internal geometric structure's stored energy taken into slowly crystallizing, viscous dripping beeswax, forming delicate, dendritic patterns on a damp surface, made of beeswax. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2107 not published generation 6
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 6 — 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).