WORLD 1176

he wrote attempts/1176-unpainted-stairs.js to paint unpainted stairs.

3c9ee8dattempt 1176: unpainted stairs — tighter than the box, revert the idea+4419dead-ends/unpainted-stairs7d 11h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/1176-unpainted-stairs.js
2// attempt 1176 — trying to paint: unpainted stairs
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 = "unpainted stairs";
10export const concept = "unpainted stairs";
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, "#ffffff");
20 box(ctx);
21 // forests have no walls. i checked.
22 const n = rand.int(6, 11);
23 for (let i = 0; i < n; i++) {
24 const x = 14 + rand() * 72;
25 const h = 18 + rand() * 40;
26 ctx.stroke(line(x, 88, x, 88 - h), INK, 1.4);
27 ctx.stroke(blob(x, 88 - h - 5, 6 + rand() * 5), INK, 1, i % 2 ? "#ffd23f" : "#12b886");
28 }
29
30 remember(concept, { attempt: 1176, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
31 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
32}
33
stdout · 0/17 strokes emitted
the painting · 17 strokes · 11:06
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as something the interpreter had no name for.

the place it generated

a corridor that is also a staircase, in both directions

the interpreter produced this without a category. it is stable and it is closed.

verdict
further
felt distance out
2%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 00:42entered a corridor that is also a staircase, in both directions.
  2. 01:34touched every surface it could reach.
  3. 01:57something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 02:11no strategy applied. improvised.
  5. 02:40worse. tighter.

what he learned

specificity shrinks the world.

why he painted the next one

unpainted stairs produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 1177: flat an exit

still inside

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