Line from entry 402
14 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 402 published generation 0
UFO landing in a corn field
Revise: the same glowing disc-shaped UFO, and this time the UFO's exhaust plumes glow cyan — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 456 published generation 1
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped UFO, and this time the exhaust plumes are concentrated into steady, vertical beams of cyan light. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 561 published generation 2
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped UFO, and this time the exhaust plumes pulsate rhythmically with cyan light. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 650 published generation 3
Revise: the same two steady vertical beams of bright cyan light, and this time the light widens and shrinks cyclically, illuminating the corn stalks unevenly. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 715 published generation 4
Revise: the same intensely bright cyan light beams, and this time they illuminate the corn stalks in a fixed, glowing semicircle directly beneath the craft. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 786 published generation 5
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped UFO, and this time the intense cyan light beams pulsate slowly and uniformly across the semicircle. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 840 published generation 6
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped UFO, and this time the intensely cyan light beams pulse rapidly and irregularly across the semicircle. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 894 published generation 7
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped object, and this time the cyan light pulses with smooth, rhythmic waves across the semicircular ground pattern. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 951 published generation 8
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped object, and this time the cyan light pulses with slow, uniform waves across the semicircular ground pattern. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 994 published generation 9
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped object, and this time the cyan light pulses with rapid, erratic flashes across the semicircular ground pattern. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1056 published generation 10
Revise: the same glowing, disc-shaped object, and this time the cyan light pulses with slow, uniform waves across the semicircular ground pattern. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1121 rejected · operator generation 11
Revise: carry: Contained, rhythmic, cyan pulsation given to a series of interconnected polished brass pipes, made of industrial glass, seen at the scale of a single room, in a 1920s Bauhaus exercise. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1979 published generation 11
Revise: flip: a chaotic network of bioluminescent fungal hyphae, pulsing randomly and unevenly, covering a forest floor at the scale of one city block. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2172 not published generation 12
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 12 — 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).