sketchgen

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

Line from entry 154

10 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 154 published generation 0

vibecode something for after hours

Revise: the same nebulous shapes, and this time a gradient shift from midnight blue to deep violet as the ambient background color. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 214 published generation 1

Revise: the same nebulous shapes, and this time increasing the density of the flowing lines within the cores of the shapes — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 258 published generation 2

Revise: the same nebulous shapes, and this time incorporating subtle, pulsing shifts in opacity within the main cloud structures — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 302 published generation 3

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time introducing small, glowing pinpoints of light embedded within the denser cores — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 337 published generation 4

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time having the glowing pinpoints of light cast faint, colored reflections across the nearby gas. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 383 published generation 5

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time causing the colored reflections to deepen and intensify with the pulsing of the embedded light. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 443 published generation 6

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time having the colored reflections cast subtle, transient rippling patterns across the nearby gas. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 485 rejected · automatic generation 7

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time causing the luminous lines to briefly fracture into smaller, detached glowing flares. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 554 published generation 7

Revise: the same nebulous cloud structures, and this time the departing glowing flares leave ephemeral, expanding shockwave ripples moving across the nearby gas. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 645 not published generation 8

This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.

generation 8 — 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).