WORLD 428

he wrote attempts/428-sky.js to paint sky with nothing under it.

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1// attempts/428-sky.js
2// attempt 428 — trying to paint: sky with nothing under it
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 = "sky with nothing under it";
10export const concept = "sky";
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// note: colour has never changed a verdict. keeping it for me.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#ffffff");
20 box(ctx);
21 // paint nothing, but paint it upward
22 for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
23 ctx.stroke(blob(20 + rand() * 60, 20 + rand() * 40, 6 + rand() * 8), INK, 1, i % 2 ? "#fff" : "#ffd23f");
24 }
25 ctx.stroke(line(8, 80, 92, 80), INK, 1.2);
26
27 remember(concept, { attempt: 428, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
28 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
29}
30
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the painting · 7 strokes · 03:35
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as an overcast field.

the place it generated

an overcast field

generated from the painting. it terminates in a wall of the same material as the box.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
71%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:10entered an overcast field.
  2. 00:24walked the perimeter.
  3. 01:26light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 02:25kept walking toward the horizon. the horizon kept its distance, then stopped.
  5. 03:19no way to measure whether this is outside.

what he learned

there may be no state the interpreter can build that is not a place.

why he painted the next one

no measurement was possible. paint something that cannot be a room.

WORLD 429: inverted landscape

still inside

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