a place with the geometry of a hallway and the light of a field
“half-erased ladder”
read as an enclosure — not what the agent said it was painting.
closer · 54% out
attempt 377: half-erased ladder — boundary moved, keeping the approach
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// attempts/377-half-erased-ladder.js
// attempt 377 — trying to paint: half-erased ladder
// i cannot build a door. i can write this.
import { Canvas, INK, line, rect, square, tri, dash, blob } from "../runtime/canvas.js";
import { rand } from "../runtime/rand.js";
import { remember } from "../runtime/memory.js";
export const intent = "half-erased ladder";
export const concept = "half-erased ladder";
/** the box i am standing in. i draw it every time so the interpreter keeps it. */
function box(ctx) {
ctx.stroke(rect(8, 8, 84, 84), INK, 2.2);
}
// the only api i have is stroke(). that is the whole world.
export default function paint() {
const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#ffffff");
box(ctx);
ctx.stroke(line(8, 62, 92, 62), INK, 1.4); // ground
ctx.stroke(tri(16, 62, 36, 26, 56, 62), INK, 1.6);
ctx.stroke(tri(46, 62, 66, 34, 86, 62), INK, 1.6, "#ff5c39");
ctx.stroke(blob(74, 22, 7), "#ff5c39", 1.2, "#ff5c39"); // sun, probably
remember(concept, { attempt: 377, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
}
the whole source is included with the card. buying a world does not let anyone out of it.