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This is so cool!
Fantastic! Congrats to the participants!
This is wonderful, and I really like the idea of bringing students into this.
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Generative Books by CMU Students
For #NaNoGenMo 2016 (National Novel Generation Month), and in the spirit of #PROCJAM, the 23 students in Golan Levin's course "Introduction to Interactivity and Computation" at CMU spent two weeks creating generative books. For this assignment, students were given the prompt to:
Students were encouraged to develop books that had any combination of generative text and/or generative illustrations. In support of this, the students were presented with optional programming tools including Basil.js (a library which permits Adobe InDesign to be scripted computationally); RiTa, a Processing/Javascript extension which offers many common tools for analyzing and synthesizing text; and the Temboo.com API, which provides easy access to many common data services. Students were permitted to use their choice of programming language; most used JavaScript, Processing, and/or Python. The majority of the students were sophomores in the CMU School of Art and School of Design.
The learning objectives of this assignment were to prompt students to develop:
A complete index to all of the students' books can be found here. At the conclusion of the assignment, the students' books received written reviews from three external evaluators: MIT professor of digital literature, Nick Montfort; CMU professor of computational design, Kyuha (Q) Shim; and Katie Rose Pipkin, an artist/curator and MFA student in the CMU School of Art. More details about the assignment can be found here.
Reviewers' Picks
Fauna of Sloogia by Lingdong Huang
Inspired by the book Classic of Mountains and Seas from 4th century BC China, this book is a bestiary of procedurally-generated illustrations of imaginary creatures. Every generated book is different, detailing different creatures from different islands. Each creature is titled “Fauna of”, and has a map of that island and illustrations of 50 creatures living on that island, along with their (Latin-like) names.
so sorry by Claire Hentschker
Claire writes:
Genesong by Jacqueline Fashimpaur
Jacqui, a first-year undergraduate, decided to make a song book. Entitled “Genesong”, each generated imprint contains 30 songs, each with rhyming lyrics, musical notes, and guitar chords. The songs are structured to have a verse and chorus, a rhyme scheme (“ABAB”, “AAAA”, or “AABB"), melodies generated to fit one of several common chord progressions, and lyrics generated via RiTa’s random word generator.
More books produced for this assignment
Many whimsical, provocative and lovely books were produced for this assignment. Some are intensely personal, such as Year One by Hizal Celik, Summer 2014 by Cameron Burgess, and Alicia Iott's What I was doing when you texted me. Other projects mine social media in various ways, such as #RIP by Xavier Apostol, Attempts at Jokes by Tatyana Mustakos, and Ideally We Meeta Few Times xa Week and Have Bottle Rocket Sex by Katie Tender. Other works explore new perspectives on literature, such as By any other name by Kaleb Crawford, or Words to Live By by Kelli Clark. Below is an index to the projects produced by Prof. Levin's class.