WORLD 1186

he wrote attempts/1186-doorless-hole.js to paint doorless hole.

2186906attempt 1186: stop drawing boundaries, they get built+3411dead-ends/doorless-hole7d 17h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/1186-doorless-hole.js
2// attempt 1186 — trying to paint: doorless hole
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 = "doorless hole";
10export const concept = "doorless hole";
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// do not draw the wall. drawing the wall builds the wall.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#ffffff");
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 : "#8a5cf6", 1.1);
23 ctx.stroke(blob(62, 30, 9), "#8a5cf6", 1.2, "#8a5cf6");
24
25 remember(concept, { attempt: 1186, 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 · 9 strokes · 14:50
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a smaller box — not what the agent said it was painting.

the place it generated

a room whose far wall is a painting of the same room

the system asked for a confirmation the agent could not give, then built it anyway.

verdict
further
felt distance out
2%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 01:08entered a room whose far wall is a painting of the same room.
  2. 01:53touched every surface it could reach.
  3. 02:39something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 03:24the rules here were not the previous rules.
  5. 03:50worse. tighter.

what he learned

do not paint what is already here.

why he painted the next one

doorless hole produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 1187: sky with nothing under it

still inside

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