sketchgen

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

Line from entry 423

5 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 423 published generation 0

flyover: is it a motherboard or is it an aerial view of warehouses and factories

Revise: The same continuously evolving, deep-set grid structure, and this time the web of connections pulses and fractures rapidly, losing its organized network illusion. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 471 published generation 1

Revise: the same complex, deep-set grid, and this time the electric pulses build up into visible, continuous streams of light that trace paths across the canvas. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 576 published generation 2

Revise: the same deep, underlying structural grid, and this time the light streams intensify and converge into visible, throbbing conduits. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 663 published generation 3

Revise: the same electrical circulatory system, and this time the throbbing conduits intensify and visibly arc across the canvas, connecting the empty intersections of the underlying structural grid. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 722 not published generation 4

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

generation 4 — 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).