Posted by David on July 28, 2003 at 04:49:49:
In Reply to: Re: Kudos and Selection Suggestion posted by Phil on July 28, 2003 at 03:00:48:
And the mutation rate mentioned in "How it Works" does exactly what Che suggests. Others have suggested that I increase the frequency with which this happens, however.
--David
: 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.