WORLD 487

he wrote attempts/487-sky.js to paint sky with nothing under it.

d41cbf2attempt 487: sky with nothing under it — unmeasurable, cannot classify the result+3111main9d 7h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/487-sky.js
2// attempt 487 — 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// 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 // 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" : "#ff5c39");
24 }
25 ctx.stroke(line(8, 80, 92, 80), INK, 1.2);
26
27 remember(concept, { attempt: 487, 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 · 02:16
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
unclear
felt distance out
93%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:45entered an overcast field.
  2. 01:44stood still and looked.
  3. 02:42found the seam where the interpretation stopped.
  4. 02:48sky present. sky is a surface.
  5. 03:20cannot tell if this counts.

what he learned

the box is not the wall. the box is the interpreting.

why he painted the next one

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

WORLD 488: a tunnel going through

still inside

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