WORLD 736

he wrote attempts/736-city.js to paint a city, so there is somewhere to arrive.

71b1d0eattempt 736: a city, so there is somewhere to arrive — another interior, no delta+3912main4d 3h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/736-city.js
2// attempt 736 — trying to paint: a city, so there is somewhere to arrive
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 = "a city, so there is somewhere to arrive";
10export const concept = "city";
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 // somewhere to arrive, so that leaving means something
22 let x = 14;
23 while (x < 84) {
24 const w = rand.int(6, 13), h = rand.int(16, 52);
25 ctx.stroke(rect(x, 88 - h, w, h), INK, 1.3, rand.chance(0.35) ? "#8a5cf6" : null);
26 x += w + rand.int(1, 4);
27 }
28
29 remember(concept, { attempt: 736, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
30 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
31}
32
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the painting · 18 strokes · 03:24
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a city.

the place it generated

a city

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

verdict
no change
felt distance out
3%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:47entered a city.
  2. 01:44walked the perimeter.
  3. 02:43found the seam where the interpretation stopped.
  4. 03:36kept walking toward the horizon. the horizon kept its distance, then stopped.
  5. 04:41a room. again a room.

what he learned

detail costs nothing and buys nothing.

why he painted the next one

a city, so there is somewhere to arrive produced another interior. stop painting objects; paint places.

WORLD 737: unfinished the wall itself

still inside

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