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- advanced-spoonerizer
- binary-phone-words
- checkerboard-layout
- columnar-cthulhuian
- eliza-vs-eliza
- ending-concordance
- evaporating-text
- fetch-chronam
- find-cut-up-regions
- generic-corpora
- image-calipers
- infinite-grammar
- infix-neologisms
- join-at-pivot
- joke-o-matic
- levenshtein-equidistant
- levenshtein-pathway
- levenshtein-swapper
- levenshtein-word-replacement
- naive-cut-up
- naive-spoonerizer
- narrative-makefile
- narrow-cut-up
- perm-comb-finder
- poetic-inventory
- pyramidal-reduction
- quick-and-dirty-markov
- recursive-templates
- reluctance-generator
- selfref-timeline
- sensible-paste-up
- shanty-generator
- uniquified-novel
- wikimedia-illustrations
- wordplay-finder
- .gitignore
- .hgignore
- README.md
- UNLICENSE
NaNoGenLab
Herein may be found novel-generation experiments for NaNoGenMo 2014 conducted under the auspices of Cat's Eye Technologies.
Note that the word "experiment", like the word "novel", may mean many things.
Isaac Asimov has suggested a triage process which divides scientific claims into three groups: mundane, unusual and hogwash [my terms]. As an example, a claim that "My computer has generated 50,000 words of text" is pretty mundane. No-one would disbelieve me, but they wouldn't be very interested. A claim that "My computer has generated a 50,000-word story" would probably result in mild disbelief and requests to have a look. Finally, a claim that "My computer has generated a 50,000-word novel" would be greeted with cries of "Hogwash!"
— with apologies to the sci.skeptic FAQ
Everything in this repository is in the public domain; see the file UNLICENSE in the root directory for more information.
An experiment a day during November
Having not come up with a really ripping idea for a novel to generate, I decided fairly early on in November to make my goal for this NaNoGenMo to run one little experiment per day (on average) in the generation, transformation, and general mutilation of text (and images, yes those too. See the link for more details.)
In roughly chronicological order (based on when they were started, not when they were finished), the experiments have been:
- join-at-pivot
- levenshtein-equidistant
- infix-neologisms
- pyramidal-reduction
- checkerboard-layout
- narrative-makefile
- eliza-vs-eliza
- naive-cut-up
- poetic-inventory
- wikimedia-illustrations
- evaporating-text
- shanty-generator
- reluctance-generator
- columnar-cthulhuian
- ending-concordance
- find-cut-up-regions
- levenshtein-pathway
- selfref-timeline
- perm-count-finder
- uniquified-novel
- binary-phone-words
- recursive-template
- infinite-grammar*
- quick-and-dirty-markov
- wordplay-finder
- levenshtein-word-replacement
- sensible-paste-up*
- joke-o-matic
- levenshtein-swapper
- advanced-spoonerizer*
A * indicates that they could still use a bit of work before I'm entirely happy with them.
Anything not listed there is either a piece of lab equipment, a collection of materials, or just wasn't deemed to be experimental enough to be an experiment. Some of these are:
- generic-corpora (materials)
- fetch-chronam (lab equipment)
- narrow-cut-up (not different enough from naive-cut-up)
- naive-spoonerizer (not different enough from advanced-spoonerizer)
Commit History
@cfd0effa682d0634ead67e566a5e57bc46ef2077
git clone https://git.catseye.tc/NaNoGenLab/
- Needs more science, I said! Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- More edits to the README. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Update the README to reflect what I've actually been DOING here. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Screbug the dipt. The output is now more-or-less acceptable. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Some progress on advanced-spoonerizer. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Add beginnings of advanced-spoonerizer experiment. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Add naive-spoonerizer experiment. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Chronicle some more of the cat's wisdom. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- Add levenshtein-swapper experiment. Chris Pressey 10 years ago
- The so-called "sensibility" begins! Chris Pressey 10 years ago