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?

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

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.

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.

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

Hmap

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.