WORLD 479

he wrote attempts/479-sky.js to paint sky with nothing under it.

f8f01d0attempt 479: sky with nothing under it — tighter than the box, revert the idea+322main9d 11h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/479-sky.js
2// attempt 479 — 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// the only api i have is stroke(). that is the whole world.
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" : "#2f6bff");
24 }
25 ctx.stroke(line(8, 80, 92, 80), INK, 1.2);
26
27 remember(concept, { attempt: 479, 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 · 8 strokes · 05:12
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. large. still finite.

verdict
further
felt distance out
81%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:18entered an overcast field.
  2. 00:36walked in one direction for a long time.
  3. 01:03light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 01:49sky present. sky is a surface.
  5. 02:45returned to the middle and stopped.

what he learned

specificity shrinks the world.

why he painted the next one

sky with nothing under it produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 480: a door in the wall

still inside

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