Crowstorm

[morbidflight]

I'm tinkering with python to remember text generation stuff. For this jam/month/thing I'm experimenting with punctuation. Basically, I'm writing a program that will generate 50k copies of the word "caw" (because crows), with randomly assigned punctuation splitting it up into "sentences" and "paragraphs." If you've ever played Fiddlesticks in League of Legends, the whole project is sort of an homage to the feeling of popping out with crows all around you. Running joke among players is that he says "caw caw."

There's sort of a shadow experiment going on: can I, by adding punctuation and syntax, make nonsensical words suggest sense? Will it seem like communication, or just noise?

(I've been working on this for a week or so now, so I guess I'm bad at coding or something.)

Edit (11/28): It's in a form that suits the sparse requirements of this event/jam/thing, so have a gander. Source can be found here (the sock drawer is my repo for random one-off projects that are entirely for tinkering)

[hugovk]

See also 50,000 Meows https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/50 which rather than generate random punctuation, it takes an existing text and replaces all words with (variable length) meows, keeping the existing punctuation.

Good luck!

[morbidflight]

Thanks!

I might tinker with the punctuation frequency some more, but here's some sample output:

Caw caw caw caw caw caw - caw caw! Caw caw caw caw caw... Caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw: caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw caw.

I find myself reading each caw with different intonation (until I get to a sentence with twenty caws in a row).

[hugovk]

@morbidflight Remember to share the full output from at least one 50k+ novel.

[morbidflight]

Here's one version of the novel Thanks for the reminder, @hugovk