spw.quest

A line at rest

One line of Spw, drawn as bodies inside bodies. Push a part and it comes home. Let a visitor in and the line stays as written. Keep the visitor, and the line says so.

~draft

This line has no { } body, so nothing is inside it to move. Try one with a body.

Stand on the opening line instead

The rules tried here

  1. The line is kept. The picture is not. Every picture has a rest, and a push changes no reading.
  2. A mark is its body's law. The mark in front of a word is felt by the parts inside that word's braces, and by no others. A body inside it feels a share.
  3. Each body has its own clock. A touch warms the body it lands in and, by the share, the bodies inside it. Never the one beside it, and never the one around it.
  4. key: value is a joint. It has a rest length. The value moves with its key and comes back to that length.
  5. @name is a sight line. It shows how far away a thing is. It moves nothing.
  6. Closed braces are neutral from outside. What happens inside a body is not felt beyond its brace.
  7. A visitor joins the line only by an edit that writes it. A bare word moves a neighbour only by touching it. A marked word carries its mark: the parts near it feel that law, less with distance. Either way it is a visitor until it is kept.
The marks that have a law on this floor
.groundsettles: its parts rest low
^ascensionlifts: its parts rest high
*valueholds: its parts give less to a push and come home fast
~potentialdrifts: its parts give more to a push and come home slowly
@perspectivegathers: its parts rest nearer the middle
?wonderopens: its parts rest further apart
!actionmakes room: its parts keep more room around them

These are proposals from the workbench's notebook on depiction, made small enough to check by hand. The other marks have no law here yet. The canvas at factshift.center keeps physics of its own.

Bring a line

Pivot a line · Constructs · The bench · Take one line apart · Learn it a mark at a time