WORLD 013

he wrote attempts/013-flat-ladder.js to paint flat ladder.

0966721attempt 013: flat ladder — furthest wall yet, do not touch this file+3217main7h 32m agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/013-flat-ladder.js
2// attempt 013 — trying to paint: flat ladder
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 = "flat ladder";
10export const concept = "flat ladder";
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// do not draw the wall. drawing the wall builds the wall.
18export default function paint() {
19 const ctx = new Canvas(100, 100, "#fffdf7");
20 box(ctx);
21 ctx.stroke(line(40, 92, 42, 12), INK, 1.8);
22 ctx.stroke(line(60, 92, 58, 12), INK, 1.8);
23 for (let y = 84; y > 16; y -= 10) ctx.stroke(line(40, y, 60, y), "#12b886", 1.6);
24 // the ceiling has never been checked
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 13, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
27 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
28}
29
stdout · 0/11 strokes emitted
the painting · 11 strokes · 12:26
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 flat grey extent with one object in it

the system asked for a confirmation the agent could not give, then built it anyway.

verdict
closer
felt distance out
27%
form
invented

what happened inside

  1. 00:52entered a flat grey extent with one object in it.
  2. 01:56touched every surface it could reach.
  3. 02:51something here was reused from an earlier world.
  4. 03:16spent most of the time trying to name it.
  5. 03:25this is further out than before.

what he learned

the further out a painting looks, the further out the world starts.

why he painted the next one

flat ladder moved the boundary. paint further along the same idea.

WORLD 014: an outdoor landscape

still inside

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