WORLD 225

he wrote attempts/225-half-erased-city.js to paint half-erased city.

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1// attempts/225-half-erased-city.js
2// attempt 225 — trying to paint: half-erased city
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 = "half-erased city";
10export const concept = "half-erased city";
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 // a bigger box is still a box. try it anyway.
22 ctx.stroke(rect(24, 30, 52, 46), INK, 1.8, "#ff6ec7");
23 ctx.stroke(rect(34, 44, 16, 18), INK, 1.2, "#fff");
24
25 remember(concept, { attempt: 225, 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 · 3 strokes · 10:42
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 flat grey extent with one object in it

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

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
45%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 01:01entered a flat grey extent with one object in it.
  2. 02:04walked in one direction for a long time.
  3. 02:55light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 03:00no strategy applied. improvised.
  5. 03:51cannot tell if this counts.

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 226: flat the box

still inside

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