User:Kendal/Special Issue
Prototyping
→ Generating randomised textual poems from a set of variable words/phrases
→ ASCII time, converting images into ascii via python.
from PIL import Image
from urllib.request import urlopen
f = Image.open (urlopen("PUT URL HERE"))
g = f.convert("1") #for b&w
g.save ("bw.png") #to save a new copy
import aalib
screen = aalib.AsciiScreen(width=80, height=40) #size of the canvas
h = f.resize(screen.virtual_size).convert('L',dither=Image.NONE)
screen.put_image((0, 0), h)
print (screen.render())
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-~~~~~` --------------------
→ NLTK
language = open('../txt/language.txt').read()
tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(language)
tagged = nltk.pos_tag(tokens)
# # Simple fill-up of a page, to set the reach of our canvas
# lines = [] # All the lines will be stored here
# sentence = 'Liquid is controlled chaos in a permanent state of flux. '
# line = ''
# for x in range(height):
# line += sentence
# line += ' ~ ' * width
# lines.append(line)
# # tmp_line = ''
# # for character in line:
# # if len(tmp_line) < 82:
# # tmp_line += character
# # else:
# # tmp_line = ''
# # count = 0
# # r = '\n'.join(lines)
# # print(r)
# print(lines)
# type(lines)
→ PDF STAMPING
!pdftk pdf/quilt.pdf stamp pdf/shapes.pdf output pdf/quilt-stamped.pdf
OUTPUT = File:Liquidquilt.pdf
Research & Writing
Words/publications to edit: ?!, Undecidability, Resurgence & Liquid
with Nami, Clara, Louisa
MY WORD
things that stood out:
- Feedback Loops
- Flow
- Flux
- Organic
- Boundless
- Growing
- Movement
- Circulation
- Adaptive
- Unpredictability
- Sublime
- Hypercomplexity
- Self-sustaining
- Controlled chaos
- Monstrous
- Multiplicity
→IDEA PAGE FOR INDIVIDUAL REPUBLICATION
Main focus on feedback loops, flux, flow and and text as a regenerative organism.
OBSERVATION: Information inside a boundless space. TOOLS: ASCII (AALIB), NLTK & PDFTK Stamp / Background GOAL: Ascii texture made from texts, layering and feedback loops,
"Living text that is boundless & loops"
ROLES
- Print Production
- Copy Editing