Journal Of Laplace's Demon

[tahloolah]

I'm interested in this but I'm new and don't know what exactly I'd do. It's nearly 6am for me as of writing this message so I'll give it a proper approach tomorrow but I wanted to signal my intent now.

[tahloolah]

I pretty much forgot about this for a week but I have a concept now, and I'm going to start work on it tomorrow.

I want to make the Journal or Memoir of Laplace's Demon, a big stream of consciousness block of text that describes the position of individual atoms and molecules in relation to big macro landmarks. Something like this, repeated.

"I am aware of an oxygen atom inside a molecule of water, floating freely in the clouds between the shadow of the large mountain and the rivers running north to south."

[tahloolah]

I'm done! I created a simple program over a couple of hours in Processing. When you open it, there's a black box and you have to leave it open a couple seconds to write the novel, then press any key and it closes the program and leaves you with a .docx file in the folder it's in. That's a weird thing but I think I like it a lot?

Here's the folder with the program. You need Java.

Here's the code I used in Processing

Here's the output .docx 56,184 words

Thanks for reading, this was fun!

(I have no idea how github works. Am I supposed to mark this as completed myself or is that something somebody else does? Sorry!)

[hugovk]

Have a completed label!

[tahloolah]

Thanks!

There's definitely places where this thing could use work. It repeats itself in boring ways often. I think I'm going to call it complete as a novel generating bot though and maybe improve it while making it a thing that tweets eventually. Definitely a lot of fun to approach though. I had a blast.