WORLD 1194

he wrote attempts/1194-water.js to paint an ocean, which is not a room.

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1// attempts/1194-water.js
2// attempt 1194 — 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// the only api i have is stroke(). that is the whole world.
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: 1194, 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 · 08:46
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as shallow water.

the place it generated

shallow water

generated from the painting. large. still finite.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
4%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 01:07entered shallow water.
  2. 01:32walked the perimeter.
  3. 02:35light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 02:57sky present. sky is a surface.
  5. 03:08no way to measure whether this is outside.

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 1195: flat forest

still inside

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