Line from entry 361
4 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 361 published generation 0
Depict a scene from the motion picture "2001: A Space Odyssey"
Revise: the same interstellar monolith, and this time subtly shift its angle of rotation — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 415 published generation 1
Revise: the same monolith, and this time enhance the deep blue stellar dust to make the background feel less void-like — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 465 published generation 2
Revise: the same stark black monolith, and this time deepen the ambient stellar dust to give the background more visible depth and recession. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 569 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).