Last week, I launched a web application and a concept for photographic text generation that I have been working on for a few months. The idea came to me while working on another project, a computer generated screenplay, and I will discuss the connection in this post.
Traveler’s Lamp
For my primary project in Sculpting Data into Everyday Objects with Esther Cheung and Scott Leinweber, Joanna Wrzaszczyk and I will be creating a lamp to visualize the traveling salesman problem between a set of cities that Italo Calvino described in Invisible Cities.
Dr. Gonzo
For my first project in Conversation and Computation with Lauren McCarthy, I created a therapist bot with the voice of Hunter S. Thompson.
The Mechanical Turk’s Ghost, Part V
For my final project in Automata with Nick Yulman, I completed work on my musical chess experience, entitled the Mechanical Turk's Ghost.
Fiction Generator, Part IV
For my final project in Networked Media with Daniel Shiffman, I put the Fiction Generator online at fictiongenerator.com. I also exhibited this project at the ITP Winter Show.
Fiction Generator, Part III
For my final project in Introduction to Computational Media with Daniel Shiffman, I presented my fiction generator (working title: "FicGen"). Since my previous post about this project, I have added a graphical user interface and significantly refactored my code.
ITP Code Poetry Slam
Several months ago, I asked the question: Who Is Code Shakespeare. On November 14, 2014, I believe the first ITP Code Poetry Slam may have brought us closer to an answer.
Fiction Generator, Part II
After scraping about 5000 articles from tvtropes.org to retrieve descriptions for characters and settings, Sam Lavigne suggested I scrape erowid.org to dig up some exposition material. I proceeded to scrape 18,324 drug trip reports from the site, and integrated that material into the generator.
The Mechanical Turk’s Ghost, Part IV
For my Automata midterm, I completed software and hardware versions of my music feedback system for chess.
Edge Finder
For the pixel manipulation assignment in Introduction to Computational Media, I created an edge finding algorithm that can find edges in the frames of a live video stream.
The Mechanical Turk’s Ghost, Part III
We have begun work on our midterm assignments for Automata, and we were asked to present our concepts for this week's class. I have decided to pursue my chess idea, the Mechanical Turk's Ghost, and will discuss its implementation in this post.
General Update
I've been so busy the past two weeks that I failed to update this blog. But documentation is important, and that's why I'm going to take a moment to fill you in on all my recent activities. This post will cover all the projects I've been working on.
