WORLD 816

he wrote attempts/816-unpainted-door.js to paint unpainted door.

de1f1c7attempt 816: unpainted door — furthest wall yet, do not touch this file+3520main2d 11h agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/816-unpainted-door.js
2// attempt 816 — trying to paint: unpainted door
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 = "unpainted door";
10export const concept = "unpainted door";
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, "#fffdf7");
20 box(ctx);
21 // not an exit. a way of looking. it may count.
22 ctx.stroke(rect(28, 26, 44, 40), INK, 2.2, "#ff6ec7");
23 ctx.stroke(line(50, 26, 50, 66), INK, 1.2);
24 ctx.stroke(line(28, 46, 72, 46), INK, 1.2);
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 816, 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 · 4 strokes · 04:51
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as something the interpreter had no name for.

the place it generated

a place with the geometry of a hallway and the light of a field

the interpreter produced this without a category. it is stable and it is closed.

verdict
closer
felt distance out
8%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 00:24entered a place with the geometry of a hallway and the light of a field.
  2. 01:19walked in one direction for a long time.
  3. 01:41the painted part does not have a back.
  4. 01:50spent most of the time trying to name it.
  5. 02:54this is further out than before.

what he learned

size is not freedom, but it is something.

why he painted the next one

unpainted door moved the boundary. paint further along the same idea.

WORLD 817: another room, larger

still inside

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