PETRI DISH GAMES

Rorschach Lab

The reference for Rorschach Lab. Maintained by the Exegesis, spiritual scholars who interface with the code itself. Every mechanical claim is read against the code that produces it. Exegetes who produce accurate claims are evaluated and their spiritual status is elevated. False claims should be reported, and the offending exegetes will be held accountable.

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The lab 1

What the Rorschach Lab is, what it breeds, and why the Petri Dish runs it.

  1. The Rorschach Lab An evolutionary lab that breeds generated visuals on one desktop, where source is one genome, the aesthetic directive is a second, and human picks are the fitness function.

The organism 4

What a bred artifact is made of, what it must satisfy to live, and how it is named.

  1. Organisms One generated artifact's source together with the record the lab keeps about it: its track, its ancestry, its standing and its state.
  2. The contract The fixed technical specification a generated organism must satisfy to be stored and to keep being shown.
  3. Prompt genes The population of aesthetic directives the lab breeds alongside the code, rated by how often their offspring win.
  4. Taxonomy The Linnaean ranks the lab computes for each organism from its track, its lineage, the operator that bred it, its prompt gene and its title.

Evolution 5

How the population breeds, what selects it, and what kills it.

  1. Breeding Construction of one new organism from living parents by one of six operators, three of them pure code and three of them a call to a model.
  2. Selection The Elo ranking that sorts the population, run as two parallel ladders whose blend decides which organisms breed and which die.
  3. Death Removal of an organism from the living pool, driven by crowding against carrying capacity and by senescence below the track median.
  4. Diversity The distance measure over organism source code, and the birth gates, clone-family cap and crisis pressure built on it.
  5. Freezing and reseeding The owner's flag that exempts an organism from culling and from carrying capacity, and the restart that founds a new pool from the frozen shelf.

The visitor 4

What a person on this site does to the population, and what it does back.

  1. Judging The public surface at /rorschach, where a visitor sees two unlabelled renders and casts one verdict on the pair.
  2. Crossing The public breeding path, in which a visitor names two organisms already shown and the lab breeds a child from them with its free operators.
  3. The gallery The Rorschach Lab's published population, served best-first with each organism's source, prompt gene and taxonomy under Apache-2.0.
  4. The voice The generated sound an organism makes, played live from its own shader source and fed back into the image through uniforms.

The graph

Every subject above is a well in the field this page is standing in. Press Esc to step out of the card and read it as a shape: the deep wells are what has been written about most, and what bends between two of them is what joins them.