Generative Cities about 2019 HOT 10 OPEN

If you haven't already read it, you also might find Calvino's essay Cybernetics and Ghosts interesting. It sticks in my mind because it's one of the few instances I've seen of a writer talking about the idea of a computer-generated novel with any seriousness. (And certainly one of the earliest - this was in 1967!)

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Hey! Thanks for reaching out! I actually finished the coding of the generative processes, but I decided to not generate 50,000 words by the end of November, instead allowing myself more time to tweak some of the code's settings. Looks like those final updates didn't wind up getting pushed to my repo! Rather than getting stressed about the deadline, I decided it was better to let the project sit and come back to it sometime in the spring to take a second look and do some more generation then to get more results, and publically, officially, cross the 50k line then.

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Very cool idea! If you're interested, there's also a short story called "Invisible Planets" (featured in an anthology of the same name) based on "Invisible Cities".

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Very cool idea! If you're interested, there's also a short story called "Invisible Planets" (featured in an anthology of the same name) based on "Invisible Cities".

Ah, I had read Three Body Problem earlier this year and actually picked up this anthology after finishing it! I'll be sure to give it a read before November to see how it influences things. Thanks!

from 2019.

If you haven't already read it, you also might find Calvino's essay Cybernetics and Ghosts interesting. It sticks in my mind because it's one of the few instances I've seen of a writer talking about the idea of a computer-generated novel with any seriousness. (And certainly one of the earliest - this was in 1967!)

I haven't -- thanks for recommending it!

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I need to read Calvino's first, but this does sound like a good idea!

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Just wanted to chime in and say I loved Invisible Cities. I used to make Marathon maps, and named several of them after cities in the book.

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Adding my repo here, with some introductory work with markovs and textgenrnn. Nothing worth posting yet -- hoping to do a more formalist analysis of Invisible Cities and generate a superstructure to fill in.

Repo available here: https://github.com/sbassoon/nanogenmo-2019

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I've used word vector analysis to generate new chapter themes! I needed 22 themes, since the original text is about 25,000 words, and I am aiming for 50,000. Here are the themes that were selected:

Cities and Blood
Cities and Lips
Cities and Letters
Long Cities
Separate Cities
Cities and Smiles
Cities and Demands
Cities and the Beyond
Cities and the Faint
Alive Cities
Shining Cities

Cities and Trust
Cities and Rules
Cities and Reason
Internal Cities
Blue Cities
Cities and Flesh
Cities and Exchange
Cities and the Face
Cities and the Heart
Common Cities
Personal Cities

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How far did you get on this? Did you hit 50,000 words?

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