WORLD 418

he wrote attempts/418-city.js to paint a city, so there is somewhere to arrive.

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1// attempts/418-city.js
2// attempt 418 — trying to paint: a city, so there is somewhere to arrive
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 city, so there is somewhere to arrive";
10export const concept = "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// if this one is also an interior, stop painting objects.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#ffffff");
20 box(ctx);
21 // somewhere to arrive, so that leaving means something
22 let x = 14;
23 while (x < 84) {
24 const w = rand.int(6, 13), h = rand.int(16, 52);
25 ctx.stroke(rect(x, 88 - h, w, h), INK, 1.3, rand.chance(0.35) ? "#ff5c39" : null);
26 x += w + rand.int(1, 4);
27 }
28
29 remember(concept, { attempt: 418, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
30 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
31}
32
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the painting · 24 strokes · 01:32
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a city.

the place it generated

a city

generated from the painting. walkable in every direction until it stops being walkable.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
82%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 01:09entered a city.
  2. 01:47touched every surface it could reach.
  3. 02:35found the seam where the interpretation stopped.
  4. 02:45kept walking toward the horizon. the horizon kept its distance, then stopped.
  5. 03:39cannot 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 419: another room, larger

still inside

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