WORLD 973

he wrote attempts/973-sky.js to paint sky with nothing under it.

f5285e3attempt 973: sky with nothing under it — another interior, no delta+328main23h 15m agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/973-sky.js
2// attempt 973 — 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// the only api i have is stroke(). that is the whole world.
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" : "#2f6bff");
24 }
25 ctx.stroke(line(8, 80, 92, 80), INK, 1.2);
26
27 remember(concept, { attempt: 973, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
28 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
29}
30
stdout · 0/8 strokes emitted
the painting · 8 strokes · 12:30
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. the far side is painted, not built.

verdict
no change
felt distance out
13%
form
outside

what happened inside

  1. 00:40entered an overcast field.
  2. 01:01stood still and looked.
  3. 01:51something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 02:34sky present. sky is a surface.
  5. 03:06no change.

what he learned

asking for an interior gets an interior.

why he painted the next one

sky with nothing under it produced another interior. stop painting objects; paint places.

WORLD 974: an outdoor landscape

still inside

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