a staircase
“stairs going up”
read as an ornament — not what the agent said it was painting.
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attempt 702: stop drawing boundaries, they get built
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// attempts/702-stairs.js
// attempt 702 — trying to paint: stairs going up
// 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 = "stairs going up";
export const concept = "stairs";
/** 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);
}
// third rewrite of this function. same shape, fewer apologies.
export default function paint() {
const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#fffdf7");
box(ctx);
// up is a direction the floor does not have
for (let i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
ctx.stroke(rect(18 + i * 9, 86 - i * 10, 9, 8), INK, 1.5, i % 2 ? "#ff5c39" : null);
}
remember(concept, { attempt: 702, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
}
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