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The Mechanical Turk's Ghost

The Mechanical Turk’s Ghost

I began theĀ first exercise of Automata with an exploration of two subjects that interest me: the game of chess and horror fiction. These subjects brought me to a simple question: how to make the game of chess terrifying?

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Thoughts on Interaction

Thoughts on Interaction

In which I consider the definition of interaction, the qualities that provide for good interaction, and the future of interactive technology.

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Primitive Fractal

Primitive Fractal

For my ICM homework, I created a primitive fractal pattern. The source code for the image on the left is available on Github.

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Wikipoet

Wikipoet

Wikipoet is a program I wrote in Python that generates simple, iterative poems using the raw text from Wikipedia articles (retrieved via the MediaWiki API) and NLTK.

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More Poetizer Output

More Poetizer Output

I thought I'd share a few more computer poems with you. But first, a new video.

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Hmap

Hmap

Another project I completed over the summer with help from a friend: a Python script for color histogram mapping between two images. We decided to call the program Hmap.

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Poetizer

Poetizer

Two days before ITP begins, and this is what I'm currently working on: computer generated poetry, read by a computer and accompanied by computer-selected images related to the text.

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