Here's the Travesty program I briefly demoed in class.
See also Ray Kurzweil's site, which features both a Cybernetic Poet (a program that writes new poems in the style of famous authors) and AARON, a program that paints its own original pictures.
I tried the Travesty progrem an the first two paragraph of "The Tell-Tale Heart". With an order of 5, it started acting like a broken record:
TRUE! nervous I had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled the
idea entered my sense of heard all was this! One of the life of the senses,
not destroyed, not destroyed, not destroyed, not destroyed, not destroyed,
not dulled the eye with a film ov
Aaron seems to be something of a racist--he only draws pink-skinned people.
Other than that, it's pretty impressive. I like the colors they've used, a lot of contrast.
Posted by: Erika Salomon on February 24, 2004 10:27 AM | Permalink to CommentHmm.... I don't like Aaron... that computer is a better artist than me. That's very impressive, though with what is perhaps a humancentric view I am more impressed with the programmer than with the computer. The coding for that must be pretty amazing...
Posted by: Anastasia Salter on February 24, 2004 03:51 PM | Permalink to Commentcheck this site out y'all...
www.the-underdogs.org.
good interactive fiction section! I also downloaded Uninvited, Shadowgate and Deja Vu off 'em. These games came out around the same time as Nintendo (and were then quickly coded for it) but I used to play them on a 512k mac... great static art and low bit sound effects...minimal chic...don't know yet how the orignal interface has been preserved... emulation of interactive fiction is a revealing resetting of original code and text: the changes in presentation/interaction come from different resource packaging, underlying language and player hardware...
also...
telnet eldorado.elsewhere.org
user=zork
pass=
you can play "zork", "leather goddesses of phobos" and "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"
it seems natural to punctuate those with quotes because they are like epics so they seem similar to poems in a storytelling setting...
anyone play D&D back in the day?
check this site out y'all...
www.the-underdogs.org.
good interactive fiction section! I also downloaded Uninvited, Shadowgate and Deja Vu off 'em. These games came out around the same time as Nintendo (and were then quickly coded for it) but I used to play them on a 512k mac... great static art and low bit sound effects...minimal chic...don't know yet how the orignal interface has been preserved... emulation of interactive fiction is a revealing resetting of original code and text: the changes in presentation/interaction come from different resource packaging, underlying language and player hardware...
also...
telnet eldorado.elsewhere.org
user=zork
pass=
you can play "zork", "leather goddesses of phobos" and "hitchhikers guide to the galaxy"
it seems natural to punctuate those with quotes because they are like epics so they seem similar to poems in a storytelling setting...
anyone play D&D back in the day?