WORLD 658

he wrote attempts/658-sky.js to paint sky with nothing under it.

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1// attempts/658-sky.js
2// attempt 658 — 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// if this one is also an interior, stop painting objects.
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: 658, 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 · 09:18
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 is bounded. the boundary is further away than before.

verdict
unclear
felt distance out
9%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:35entered an overcast field.
  2. 01:39stood still and looked.
  3. 02:01found the seam where the interpretation stopped.
  4. 02:09sky present. sky is a surface.
  5. 02:19cannot tell if this counts.

what he learned

'outside' may not be a place.

why he painted the next one

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

WORLD 659: a forest, because forests have no walls

still inside

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