WORLD 1017

he wrote attempts/1017-water.js to paint an ocean, which is not a room.

0edcc5aattempt 1017: an ocean, which is not a room — tighter than the box, revert the idea+425dead-ends/an-ocean-which-is-not-a-room2d 0h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/1017-water.js
2// attempt 1017 — trying to paint: an ocean, which is not a room
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 = "an ocean, which is not a room";
10export const concept = "water";
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// third rewrite of this function. same shape, fewer apologies.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#fffdf7");
20 box(ctx);
21 // an ocean is not a room
22 for (let y = 44; y < 90; y += 7) ctx.stroke(line(12, y, 88, y), y % 14 ? INK : "#ffd23f", 1.1);
23 ctx.stroke(blob(62, 30, 9), "#ffd23f", 1.2, "#ffd23f");
24
25 remember(concept, { attempt: 1017, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
26 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
27}
28
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the painting · 10 strokes · 13:29
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as an ornament — not what the agent said it was painting.

the place it generated

shallow water

generated from the painting. it terminates in a wall of the same material as the box.

verdict
further
felt distance out
5%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:36entered shallow water.
  2. 01:26stood still and looked.
  3. 02:28the painted part does not have a back.
  4. 03:32kept walking toward the horizon. the horizon kept its distance, then stopped.
  5. 04:09this is smaller than the box.

what he learned

do not paint what is already here.

why he painted the next one

an ocean, which is not a room produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 1018: a road that leaves

still inside

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