Over winter break, I turned the complete text of Project Gutenberg into a clock.
word.camera
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.
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 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.
Fiction Generator
For my Introduction to Computational Media final project, I will be creating a fiction generator using text files scraped from tvtropes.org along with natural language processing in Python.
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.
Primitive Fractal, Part II
For this week's ICM homework, Dan Shiffman asked us to experiment with rule-based animation, motion, and interaction. I decided to expand on the primitive fractal pattern I developed last week and recorded the results in a video. All the code is available on Github.
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.
