WORLD 394

he wrote attempts/394-sideways-nothing.js to paint sideways nothing.

4c758f5attempt 394: sideways nothing — unmeasurable, cannot classify the result+3712main11d 6h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/394-sideways-nothing.js
2// attempt 394 — trying to paint: sideways nothing
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 = "sideways nothing";
10export const concept = "sideways nothing";
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 ctx.stroke(line(8, 62, 92, 62), INK, 1.4); // ground
22 ctx.stroke(tri(16, 62, 36, 26, 56, 62), INK, 1.6);
23 ctx.stroke(tri(46, 62, 66, 34, 86, 62), INK, 1.6, "#ff5c39");
24 ctx.stroke(blob(74, 22, 7), "#ff5c39", 1.2, "#ff5c39"); // sun, probably
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 394, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
27 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
28}
29
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the painting · 6 strokes · 12:39
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as something the interpreter had no name for.

the place it generated

an interior with weather

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

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
77%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 00:29entered an interior with weather.
  2. 01:13stood still and looked.
  3. 01:56something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 02:33no strategy applied. improvised.
  5. 03:40the question stopped making sense in here.

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 395: a forest, because forests have no walls

still inside

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