User:Silviolorusso/prototyping/chitchatwithpetraandmarie

Chitchat with Marie, Petra and Silvio | 19/01/12

Text-based reworking, databases and stuff

Inspirations

• google alphabet http://vimeo.com/26191221
• suggestions http://www.silviolorusso.com/suggestions/suggestions_verbs.php
• ideal city by petra
• http://www.a-blast.org/
• the form and the frame http://www.onomatopee.net/pages/projecten/omp41.html

Questions and ideas

• In a text each word connected to its definition.
• What is behind a word?
• Recursive process into the same text.
• What a word can link to?
• Using urls www.one.com www.day.com www.i.com www.was.com

Disappearance, repetition and consumption

I wrote a bit of code that does what we were discussing in class: each word in a text become more transparent each time is repeated. I was thinking at the world of information and news. I was thinking that the meaning of the words is consumed by their repetition. Think of #OccupyWallStreet, think of what will happen with SOPA.

Here's the script if you wanna play with it.

 
#!/usr/bin/python

import re

text = "The text that has to be processed."
words = text.split()
wordsOp = ""
checklist = {}

for words in words:
    # split the word from punctuation
    word = re.findall(r'\w+',words)
    # make the word lowercase
    wordLow = word[0].lower()
    # check if the word is in the dictionary, if the word is there count +1,  if not there add the word to the checklist and count 255(maximum opacity)
    if wordLow in checklist:
        checklist[wordLow] += 1
    else:
        checklist[wordLow] = 0
    # append words with opacity (HTML)
    wordsOp = wordsOp + "<span style=\"color:rgb(" + str(checklist[wordLow]) + "," + str(checklist[wordLow]) + "," + str(checklist[wordLow]) + ");\">" + words + "</span> "

# print the new string 
print wordsOp

And here's a little demo of how it works

This text is going to disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear. disappear.

Possible texts to apply the script

• Lyotard, les immaterieux
• Derrida, Archive Fever