Code Time
So, you’ve thrown the I Ching. Aleatory textual systems — you kinda get it. In fact, you’re feeling pretty good about your command of multiple stochastic variables as a generator of modular meaning structures. But are you ready for a little server side PHP script hacking?
Oh yeah. Oh hell yeah.
I wasn’t sure about this… but your fearless TA Dan Richert shown us the way with a thoughtful, detailed boo-yah directed at the subject of Random Seed Variables in the Wu Name Generator.
We’ll get there. First, we have some ground to cover….
ASCII art
online ASCII goodness:
http://pagecurve.com/ascii.php
oracles
Please Note: using an oracle is not consulting an external system – - it is placing yourself within a system as one aspect of it
numerology
about numerology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerology
http://skepdic.com/numology.html
a ridiculously elaborate interpreter:
http://www.numerology.newkerala.com/
a deliberately obfuscating interpreter:
http://www.free-name-numerology-reading.com/
gematria
Hebrew numerology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gematria
the gematria server
http://www.mysticalinternet.com/gematria/index.php
Name Generators
pseudo randomness and random seeds
Wu Name:
http://www.blazonry.com/scripting/wuname.php
Code as Poetry = Foolish Knight
Cube Name – beta 1:
http://phxom.matterwave.net/cube_name.php
Code as Poetry = Youthful Virtuoso
Cube Name – beta 2:
http://zota.org/cubename/index.html
Code as Poetry = Princess Gold Coin Professor
! YOUR HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT !
Create two vocabulary lists for the Name Generator script.
We will use this script to generate a text based on user input. It does not need to be a “name generator” — you could make it anything you want that can be created from two separate lists of words.
Your lists must each be a minimum of 25 words long, but the longer the list, the more interesting your results.
You must post your lists to your blog by Monday.
(If you don’t want the long string of words to mess up your blog format, use the “more” tag. )