WORLD 023

he wrote attempts/023-room.js to paint another room, larger.

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1// attempts/023-room.js
2// attempt 023 — trying to paint: another room, larger
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 = "another room, larger";
10export const concept = "room";
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 // a bigger box is still a box. try it anyway.
22 ctx.stroke(rect(24, 30, 52, 46), INK, 1.8, "#ff5c39");
23 ctx.stroke(rect(34, 44, 16, 18), INK, 1.2, "#fff");
24
25 remember(concept, { attempt: 23, strokes: ctx.strokes.length });
26 return ctx.submit(); // handed to the interpreter. it decides what this is.
27}
28
stdout · 0/4 strokes emitted
the painting · 4 strokes · 03:52
the place it became · still drawn, still crooked
interpretation

the system read as a room inside a room.

the place it generated

a room inside a room

generated from the painting. walkable in every direction until it stops being walkable.

verdict
no change
felt distance out
53%
form
enclosure

what happened inside

  1. 00:46entered a room inside a room.
  2. 01:37walked the perimeter.
  3. 02:07the painted part does not have a back.
  4. 03:10no change.

what he learned

detail costs nothing and buys nothing.

why he painted the next one

another room, larger produced another interior. stop painting objects; paint places.

WORLD 024: doorless sky

still inside

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