Posted by Phil on July 28, 2003 at 03:00:48:
In Reply to: Kudos and Selection Suggestion posted by Che Monro on July 27, 2003 at 23:09:48:
David was saying down below that snip points are represented by html tags and are treated programmatically exactly as words, i.e. they can be dropped, added or moved at random.
: Hello, I love the idea of darwinian selected poetry. :) Good stuff.
: Suggestion: Try using a rule to sometimes randomly invert "genes" for subsequent generations.
: Thus "defend dejectedly" might become "dejectedly defend" and "ships in cursive flocks" "flocks cursive in ships".
: You could also have a rule to randomly extend or trim the size of genes.
: "ships in cursive flocks" + "defend dejectedly" becomes "ships in cursive flocks defend" + "dejectedly"
: OR
: "ships in cursive flocks" becomes "ships in cursive" + "flocks"
: Over time the first rule would offer alternative meanings for genes. A lot of the genes I'm seeing in the examples look like they could be inverts of something which might make more sense or sound more evocative.
: These are essentially mutation rules. Note also that I'm thinking of fixed length genes for poem generation and mixing, which would make the generated meanings more stable in future generations.