User:Inge Hoonte/command line type writer
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Sept 7
I'm working on an online performance event called IS THIS ON? with Birgit.
It's part of the UpStage project on 11/11/11, that we will stream live at PZI on Nov 11.
Last night, we set up the video stream and experimenting with video avatars.
Earlier this week, we brainstormed and worked on code to enable random operation of the avatars on the screen.
# goofy sentence generator import random def make_sentence(part1, part2, part3, part4, part5, n=1): """return n random sentences""" # convert to lists p1 = part1.split('\n') p2 = part2.split('\n') p3 = part3.split('\n') p4 = part4.split('\n') p5 = part5.split('\n') # shuffle the lists random.shuffle(p1) random.shuffle(p2) random.shuffle(p3) random.shuffle(p4) random.shuffle(p5) # concatinate the sentences sentence = [] for k in range(n): try: s = p1[k] + ', take the avatar ' + p2[k] + ' and execute ' + p3[k] + ' make a move ' + p4[k] + ' and say ' + p5[k] s = s.capitalize() + '.' sentence.append(s) except IndexError: break return sentence # break a typical sentence into 5 parts # p1: who in the audienc part1 = """\ Birgit Inge The neighbor""" # p2: which avatar part2 = """\ tail helen cat""" # p3: make action part3 = """\ /a1 /a2 /a3""" # p4: move avatar where? part4 = """\ up the screen bottom left anywhere""" # p5: say this text: part5 = """\ hallo poop goodbye the world is great""" print '-'*60 sentence = make_sentence(part1, part2, part3, part4, part5, 1) for item in sentence: print item print '-'*60 """ """