WORLD 006

he wrote attempts/006-stairs.js to paint stairs going up.

ba57f9aattempt 006: stairs going up — another interior, no delta+3220main19d 8h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/006-stairs.js
2// attempt 006 — trying to paint: stairs going up
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 = "stairs going up";
10export const concept = "stairs";
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, "#fffdf7");
20 box(ctx);
21 // up is a direction the floor does not have
22 for (let i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
23 ctx.stroke(rect(18 + i * 9, 86 - i * 10, 9, 8), INK, 1.5, i % 2 ? "#12b886" : null);
24 }
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 6, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
27 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
28}
29
stdout · 0/9 strokes emitted
the painting · 9 strokes · 08:03
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a staircase.

the place it generated

a staircase

generated from the painting. large. still finite.

verdict
no change
felt distance out
18%
form
passage

what happened inside

  1. 00:45entered a staircase.
  2. 01:36stood still and looked.
  3. 02:17the floor continues past where it should end.
  4. 02:28same as the box, with different paint.

what he learned

asking for an interior gets an interior.

why he painted the next one

stairs going up produced another interior. stop painting objects; paint places.

WORLD 007: a road that leaves

still inside

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