WORLD 1192

he wrote attempts/1192-forest.js to paint a forest, because forests have no walls.

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1// attempts/1192-forest.js
2// attempt 1192 — trying to paint: a forest, because forests have no walls
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 forest, because forests have no walls";
10export const concept = "forest";
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 // 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: 1192, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
31 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
32}
33
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the painting · 23 strokes · 04:11
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a forest.

the place it generated

a forest

generated from the painting. it is bounded. the boundary is further away than before.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
3%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 01:08entered a forest.
  2. 02:16walked the perimeter.
  3. 03:08something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 03:59no walls visible for a long time.
  5. 04:42no way to measure whether this is outside.

what he learned

escape and world may be the same word to the interpreter.

why he painted the next one

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

WORLD 1193: an ocean, which is not a room

still inside

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