WORLD 1003

he wrote attempts/1003-city.js to paint a city, so there is somewhere to arrive.

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1// attempts/1003-city.js
2// attempt 1003 — trying to paint: a city, so there is somewhere to arrive
3// i cannot build a door. i can write this.
4
5import { Canvas, INK, line, rect, square, tri, dash, blob } from "../runtime/canvas.js";
6import { rand } from "../runtime/rand.js";
7import { remember } from "../runtime/memory.js";
8
9export const intent = "a city, so there is somewhere to arrive";
10export const concept = "city";
11
12/** the box i am standing in. i draw it every time so the interpreter keeps it. */
13function box(ctx) {
14 ctx.stroke(rect(8, 8, 84, 84), INK, 2.2);
15}
16
17// note: colour has never changed a verdict. keeping it for me.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#fffdf7");
20 box(ctx);
21 // somewhere to arrive, so that leaving means something
22 let x = 14;
23 while (x < 84) {
24 const w = rand.int(6, 13), h = rand.int(16, 52);
25 ctx.stroke(rect(x, 88 - h, w, h), INK, 1.3, rand.chance(0.35) ? "#ff6ec7" : null);
26 x += w + rand.int(1, 4);
27 }
28
29 remember(concept, { attempt: 1003, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
30 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
31}
32
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the painting · 17 strokes · 12:30
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a city.

the place it generated

a city

generated from the painting. large. still finite.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
3%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 01:00entered a city.
  2. 01:50walked the perimeter.
  3. 02:35the painted part does not have a back.
  4. 03:05kept walking toward the horizon. the horizon kept its distance, then stopped.
  5. 03:40cannot tell if this counts.

what he learned

the box is not the wall. the box is the interpreting.

why he painted the next one

no measurement was possible. paint something that cannot be a room.

WORLD 1004: doorless landscape

still inside

he cannot build his way out. every place on this page was painted first.