this week i decided to write the complimentary decoder for my week1 encoder. this time converting all the dogs back to their original letters.
input: using the resulting text from week1 - dogs of the wild
output: the return of the wild (compare to original document of jack london’s the call of the wild)
source: DogWalk.java
Archive for January, 2007
I was thinking how I could focus on a word in a text. We know some focusing ways: to underline, highlight and change the word (the bold, big and colored fonts). However, I think making the word disappear in the text could be one of the interesting ways. The disappearing could emphasize […]
This is a pretty simple program that scans a text, looking for acronyms, and then rates how nerdy the author is by how many acronyms he or she used.
http://itp.nyu.edu/~cnr220/Spring07/a2z/NerdoMeter.txt
Also, I guess I forgot to put up my homework last week. Or really, it took me another few days of wrestling with it to get it […]
Greeklish, Hitchhiker’s Guide
Published by January 30th, 2007 in week 1 and interactive fiction. 0 CommentsI had never played IF before, and at first, before I really know what the heck was going on, and how I was supposed to proceed, I got very frustrated. After briefly playing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with a friend of mine who had played it before, and sort of knew what he was […]
My app randomly mashes up 2 txt files of lyrics and creates a new text file from that.
Example shown is Wu-Tang Clan’s (Protect Yo’ Neck) mixed with Harry Bellafonte ( Day-O )
I put a simple random # function in there as well, so everytime you run it, even on the same text files you should […]
I took Frank O’Hara’s Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) and made it possible to replace Lana Turner with any modern-day celebrity. It’s amazing to see how easy it is to make it more modern just by changing that name. It would be interesting to do this to a variety of texts and see the results […]
I started the first week assignment by looking into adventure games and playing one of them (not much fearing I couldn’t stop once I got into the game). The game basically started by giving you (usually someone who is lost, speechless, amnesic…) a very limited information about space surrounding you and few objects that stand […]
Interactive Fiction:
I’ve never really played video games, but every time I’ve ever been sat in from of one with a controller in my hand, my instinct has always been to explore rather than play, wander around, rather than trying to stay alive or do whatever task is at hand. That’s sort of what these interactive […]
Pimperaq & Slouching Towards Bedlam
Published by January 25th, 2007 in week 1 and interactive fiction. 0 CommentsFor my first non-Processing-based Java application, I wrote an application that replaces a couple of terms in the text of The Scarlet Pimpernel, a story about the French Revolution which is often credited as the first appearance of the modern super hero, and made it a bit more currently political by replacing the word “guillotine” […]
Not having entered a IF world before, being in the world of Edifice by Lucian Smith was amusing, new and soul crushing! It was amusing because I could move, in some ways more literally using text when compared to films or other narrative driven mediums. It was new for the reason that I had to […]
