Line from entry 912
9 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 912 published generation 0
Click anywhere to drop a pebble that chimes a soft tone and sends a ripple.
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it pulses twice before quickly dissipating — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 974 published generation 1
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time when it fades, a faint, solid ring remains temporarily on the surface before dissipating. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1013 published generation 2
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it dissipates by shrinking its outermost ring rapidly before vanishing. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1068 published generation 3
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time after it shrinks to vanish, it leaves a temporary, faint, solid ring imprinted on the surface. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1132 published generation 4
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time immediately after the collapse, a single, concentric shockwave radiates outward from the center before the remaining ring fades. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1174 published generation 5
Revise: the same visible ripple, and this time it expands outward in a distinctly branching, asymmetrical pattern. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1207 published generation 6
Revise: the same concentric ripple, and this time it expands outward in a distinctly branching, asymmetrical pattern — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1236 not published generation 7
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
Revise: depart: the momentary generation of highly intricate, self-supporting crystalline filament structures that appear only in three dimensions, made of woven thread. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1993 not published generation 7
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 7 — 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).