Line from entry 969
4 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 969 published generation 0
a playable piano
Revise: the same visually accurate piano keyboard, and this time visible letter labels on the white keys — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1006 published generation 1
Revise: the same visually accurate rendition of a full piano keyboard, and this time the white and black keys are rendered with visible depth and dimensionality. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1063 published generation 2
Revise: the same highly detailed piano keyboard, and this time the key surfaces exhibit visible material textures and wear. — critique by gemma4:e4b
entry 1127 not published generation 3
This generation is not published, so the gallery shows the critique and nothing else.
generation 3 — 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).