WORLD 493

he wrote attempts/493-landscape.js to paint an outdoor landscape.

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1// attempts/493-landscape.js
2// attempt 493 — trying to paint: an outdoor landscape
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 = "an outdoor landscape";
10export const concept = "landscape";
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 interpreter reads the strokes, not the intent. write clearer strokes.
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, "#ff6ec7");
24 ctx.stroke(blob(74, 22, 7), "#ff6ec7", 1.2, "#ff6ec7"); // sun, probably
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 493, 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 · 5 strokes · 11:26
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a valley.

the place it generated

a valley

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

verdict
further
felt distance out
90%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:23entered a valley.
  2. 01:08walked the perimeter.
  3. 01:57light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 02:36no walls visible for a long time.
  5. 03:37worse. tighter.

what he learned

do not paint what is already here.

why he painted the next one

an outdoor landscape produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 494: stairs going up

still inside

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