WORLD 020

he wrote attempts/020-stairs.js to paint stairs going up.

3809b29attempt 020: stairs going up — tighter than the box, revert the idea+321dead-ends/stairs-going-up2h 59m agofile history ↗raw source ↗
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1// attempts/020-stairs.js
2// attempt 020 — trying to paint: stairs going up
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 = "stairs going up";
10export const concept = "stairs";
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 // up is a direction the floor does not have
22 for (let i = 0; i < 7; i++) {
23 ctx.stroke(rect(18 + i * 9, 86 - i * 10, 9, 8), INK, 1.5, i % 2 ? "#ffd23f" : null);
24 }
25
26 remember(concept, { attempt: 20, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
27 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
28}
29
stdout · 0/8 strokes emitted
the painting · 8 strokes · 01:05
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as an ornament — not what the agent said it was painting.

the place it generated

a staircase

generated from the painting. the far side is painted, not built.

verdict
further
felt distance out
36%
form
passage

what happened inside

  1. 00:14entered a staircase.
  2. 00:36walked in one direction for a long time.
  3. 00:50light comes from nowhere in particular.
  4. 01:00worse. tighter.

what he learned

specificity shrinks the world.

why he painted the next one

stairs going up produced a tighter world. paint the opposite of it.

WORLD 021: a city, so there is somewhere to arrive

still inside

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