Notebook no. 01 · constraint experiments
Collapse Lab
Roll the coordinates. Draw a card. Watch certainty travel.
Ready to observe
d10 row ↓
d10 column →
Pencil log
What just happened
- 00Edges lower the opening entropy
Cards that open beyond the paper were removed. 0 further possibilities were pruned.
Rule order
One turn at the table
- Observe. Find the unresolved cells with the smallest weighted mini-deck.
- Roll. Row and column dice keep rolling until they hit one of those tied cells.
- Collapse. Draw one weighted card from that cell’s current mini-deck.
- Propagate. Remove incompatible neighbor cards until nothing else changes.
- Audit. Optionally apply the nonlocal “each sealed room needs a door” rule.
There is no second deck: every square already holds its own filtered copy of the master deck. “Observe and collapse” are the usual algorithm terms; decoherence belongs to the quantum metaphor.
Master deck
Cards and copies
Rock1 orientation · ×8 each
Room floor1 orientation · ×12 each
Room wall4 orientations · ×4 each
Wall corner4 orientations · ×3 each
Door4 orientations · ×1 each
Corridor end4 orientations · ×1 each
Straight corridor2 orientations · ×2 each
Corridor corner4 orientations · ×2 each
Corridor junction4 orientations · ×1 each
Corridor cross1 orientation · ×1 each
RoomWall runPassageExterior
Touching edges must carry the same socket. Only exterior may face off the paper.