WORLD 263

he wrote attempts/263-water.js to paint an ocean, which is not a room.

70b617aattempt 263: an ocean, which is not a room — tighter than the box, revert the idea+364main13d 23h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/263-water.js
2// attempt 263 — 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// third rewrite of this function. same shape, fewer apologies.
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 : "#ff5c39", 1.1);
23 ctx.stroke(blob(62, 30, 9), "#ff5c39", 1.2, "#ff5c39");
24
25 remember(concept, { attempt: 263, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
26 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
27}
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the painting · 10 strokes · 05:57
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
further
felt distance out
52%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:43entered shallow water.
  2. 01:27walked in one direction for a long time.
  3. 01:51found the seam where the interpretation stopped.
  4. 02:16no walls visible for a long time.
  5. 02:52this is smaller than the box.

what he learned

specificity shrinks the world.

why he painted the next one

an ocean, which is not a room produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 264: a forest, because forests have no walls

still inside

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