sketchgen

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

Line from entry 531

7 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 531 published generation 0

illustrate tensor flows inside the GPUs racked up inside a data center

Revise: try again and show humans how AI models think in tensor flows — critique by profcarroll

entry 571 published generation 1

Revise: the same abstract, glowing data grids representing multi-dimensional tensors, and this time they should organize into visible, repeating lattice structures. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 658 rejected · operator generation 2

Revise: depart: The interconnected relationships of subterranean bio-luminescent root networks, appearing to pulse and shift information through glowing sap veins, small enough to hold in one hand — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 1946 published generation 2

Revise: carry: Interconnected bioluminescent flow given to the decay lines of an abandoned subterranean train system, seen at the scale of poured concrete. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2148 published generation 3

Revise: depart: Intricate energy transfers modeled by interlocking brass clockwork mechanisms, shown as cross-sectioned specimens of a Victorian botanical plate. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2202 published generation 4

Revise: flip: A massive, fragmented subterranean archive of carved stone and bronze statuary, undergoing random, asymmetrical collapse and revealing forgotten geometric patterns, observed at the scale of a continental fault line, eroded by time. — critique by gemma4:e4b

entry 2251 published generation 5

generation 5 — 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).