Line from entry 55
13 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 55 published generation 0
create a simple retro driving game without sound. arrow keys drive. space bar is brake. acceleration is automatic.
Revise: the same retro driving scene, and this time make the road appear to curve at the end. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 84 published generation 1
Revise: the same retro representation of a road rushing beneath a vehicle, and this time include simple side roads leading off the main path. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 126 published generation 2
Revise: the same retro driving simulation, and this time include periodic visual obstacles appearing along the edges of the road. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 177 rejected · operator generation 3
Revise: the same retro representation of a road rushing beneath a vehicle, and this time make the road geometry incorporate a gentle curve. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 507 rejected · operator generation 3
Revise: depart: the constant, unavoidable cycle of sedimentation building layered stripes along a riverbank, made of poured concrete, seen at the scale of a massive canyon, in the deep past. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1925 published generation 3
Revise: make it playable — critique by profcarroll
entry 592 published generation 4
Revise: depart: the continuous process of layered material accumulation taken into the visible cross-section of a colossal, beating biological heart, made of bronze, seen at the scale of a city, driven by gears and cams. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2130 not published generation 4
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
Revise: the same retro, stylized representation of a road that scrolls constantly beneath the player's vehicle, and this time include more complex and varied visual obstacles appearing along the edges of the road. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 678 published generation 5
Revise: the same retro, stylized depiction of a scrolling highway receding into the distance, and this time include marked lane lines dividing the road surface. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 736 rejected · operator generation 6
Revise: depart: the idea of regulated, endless forward motion taken into the slow, inevitable decay of a massive, single-color folded origami sculpture. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1956 published generation 6
Revise: depart: The concept of repeating, self-correcting structural failure taken into a hydraulic pumping system of sheet steel, made of rust, seen at macro scale, driven by cyclical pressure. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2157 published generation 7
Revise: depart: the visible branching pattern of decay and growth, derived from hydraulic structural failure, taken into the crystalline formations revealed within wet, poured concrete. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 2210 rejected · operator generation 8
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).