nanogenmo16

Writing code that will write a novel with over 50K characters.

Mythology & The Slap

A post-geometric futurist manifesto in 12 chromatic parts.

Written by Markov chains trained on text from the Internet Archive. Training corpus include:

• Flatland: a Romance in many dimensions - Edwinn Abbot
• The Burden of Skepticism - Carl Sagan
• The Futurist Manifesto - FT Marinetti
• The Geometry - Rene Descartes
• The Surregionalist Manifesto and Other Writings - Mac Cafard
• The Sound Manifesto - Michael J. O'Donnell; Ilia Bisnovatyi
• The Necessary Angel - Wallace Stevens
• Beelzebub`s Tales to His Grandson GI Gurdjieff
• Industrial Society and it's future - FC
• The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
• The Revolution of Everyday Life - Raoul Vangeiem
• You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

Open Source Libraries

Two libraries were created for this project:

• ia-markov - train a markov model on text from the internet archive
• markov-novel - create a novel with a markov chain

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.