Inspiration - Githubissues

ikarth commented 8 years ago

Since at this point there are hundreds of projects from past NaNoGenMos, I thought it might be a good idea to list a few of them so that people who weren't aware of them can draw some inspiration.

This is not even close to an exhaustive list. If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

superMDguy commented 8 years ago

Wow, these are really good! Thanks.

tra38 commented 8 years ago

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0 was very inspiring for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on rearranging user content in the future, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s plot curves and sentiment analysis. There are limits to inspiration though...you don't want to be stuck in a local maxima by only using one technique over and over.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other inspirations.

enkiv2 commented 8 years ago

"Fake Press Coverage" should probably be classified under templates & expansion (since it uses rather complex templating), and "stupid plotto" should probably be classified under "50000 meows" (since it's just random entries run through existing filters).

I recommend placing "scene sequel" under simulation, though, since it's a goal-directed planner just like SAGA.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:32 PM Tariq Ali notifications@github.com wrote:

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0 https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/180 was very inspiring for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed https://github.com/tra38/Prolefeed that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on rearranging user content in the focus, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s plot curves http://visual.ly/kurt-vonnegut-shapes-stories-0?utm_source=visually_embed and sentiment analysis.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other inspirations.

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enkiv2 commented 8 years ago

Nevermind on moving scene/sequel: it's also reasonable to stick it under story compilers. I just didn't see it the first time :)

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:09 AM John Ohno john.ohno@gmail.com wrote:

"Fake Press Coverage" should probably be classified under templates & expansion (since it uses rather complex templating), and "stupid plotto" should probably be classified under "50000 meows" (since it's just random entries run through existing filters).

I recommend placing "scene sequel" under simulation, though, since it's a goal-directed planner just like SAGA.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:32 PM Tariq Ali notifications@github.com wrote:

If you have a project or idea that you find inspiring (from a past NaNoGenMo or elsewhere) I encourage you to post it in this thread.

While it was a project of my own, (NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0 https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/180 was very inspiring for me because it illustrated the power of rearranging paragraphs in an existing essay to create a new essay with a new "tone". This approach shouldn't work as well as it does, yet humans' tendencies to see patterns where none exist ("apophenia") makes the approach worthwhile and useful.

Most of my text experiments since November were based on selecting paragraphs from a corpus and randomly arranging them, and ultimately, I built a Ruby gem called Prolefeed https://github.com/tra38/Prolefeed that automates the process of rearranging content. And I'll focus on rearranging user content in the focus, probably by using Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s plot curves http://visual.ly/kurt-vonnegut-shapes-stories-0?utm_source=visually_embed and sentiment analysis.

Of course, "(NaNoGenMo: Dada 2.0) 2.0" was inspired by "Fake press coverage of NaNoGenMo: a novel". Inspiration tends to beget other inspirations.

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NaNoGenMo / 2016

Inspiration #84

Simulations and Plot Generators

Graphic Novels and Visual Things

Literary Things

Recipes, Lists and Instruction Books

Travel Stories and guidebooks

Puzzles, Mazes, and Games

Text transformation (Markov chains, WordNet, word2vec, Bayesian Poisoning...)

Statistics and other interesting corpora

Neural Networks

Twitter searches as corpus

Text expansion and grammars

Story Compilers

50000 Meows