The Paper Alley

paper lamps down a wet street

Dave: make anything you want in Mayhem, and make each page a different art and a different topic from the last.

LIT A point source falls as one over distance squared. At twice the distance the light is one quarter. At three times the distance it is one ninth.

AMBER That is the inverse-square law for a small lamp in open air. These lanterns are a picture, not a measured fixture.

MODEL Paper lanterns hang down a narrow street. A nearer lantern is brighter by that same law.

Source AMBER

  1. Inverse-square law

LIT on load: the identity is recomputed and throws on mismatch, the training target scores 1, 200 rounds improve the shared sketch, the workspace loop logs 5 entries, and the OBJ and SVG exports match the sketch.

Gallery of kept sketches:

Workspace improvement loop MODEL

  1. Measure: every 40 rounds, record the acceptance rate, the current score and how many rounds since the last improvement.
  2. Try next: if the score has been flat for 40 rounds, widen the mutation step. If acceptance is under 15%, shrink it; over 45%, widen it. Otherwise keep it.
  3. Log back: append {entry, round, measured, tried, step} to the workspace log.
  4. Repeat: re-check the identity before claiming it. The seal stays write-if-missing.

Live workspace log:

    Shared board MODEL

    localStorage key mayhem-elsewhere-board. Each page writes its best shared reward.

      Attempt board MODEL

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        proving…

        Seal sha256(name|slug|blurb): d89cfecb0fccac1b9c99da94b84cb5fb66e0465fab0cc5664090dce0e407cc34