- Interactive hardware poetry generator
- Uses physical light and distance from hardware sensors to determine tone and line spacing
- Lots of light will generate lines with positive sentiment, while complete darkness will generate lines with negative sentiment
- Closeness to sensor will generate shorter lines, while being very far away will generate longer lines
- Uses natural language processing models to analyze text sentiment and build ngrams for generating lines of poetry
Inspired by Lyn Hejinian's constant change figures and Mina Loy's Letters of the Living
Corpus credits: Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, selected poems by Mina Loy, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, William Carlos Williams, and John Donne
- Hook up light sensor to pin 16
- Hook up ultrasonic sensor to pins 23 (TRIG) and 24 (ECHO)
We worked on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B V1.1:
- Install the TextBlob NLP library
$ pip install -U textblob
$ python -m textblob.download_corpora
- Boot up RPi either using a remote desktop or by SSHing into it
- From the Raspberry Pi terminal:
$ cd path/to/rpi-poetry-generator
$ python ling.py
- Add/remove .txt files in the
textsfolder
Here's a sample of a generated poem using varying light and distance. Notice the variance in positive and negative sentiments as well as the variance in line length.
lace of different from a bad tender colds seen when there is the surface outrageous
that is to dirty diminishing is the surface outrageous why is it dirty a ceiling
in original piling up over a real cold hen is nervous is the surface outrageous
of the universe invisible unknown except thru language airprint magic images or merely disappearing as
the only light curls very light curls very light curls very light curls very light
in more places change then certainly glittering is handsome and convincing there more use in
the care with more likeness and
magic in vietnam reality turned inside a part a safe weight is there more use
so much resignation and success all
it that one morning sincerely graciously
universe joy reborn after the vast
to the seam and really then
clam colored wine
brighter if it
no breath is
years ago or
and ripe purple
kansas i lift
none at all
statue and pain
sullenness a single
comes in continuing
hawks swooping thru
a petticoat a
one taste one
at any rate
they enter the
and more time
color this shows
and distincter the
patience creeps up
what is the
lusts stellectric signs
yogis holymen i
all of a
avenue i shall
of leaves like
tragedy the hero
there is no
the sun itself
makes a to dirty diminishing is
l i f all together it
standing and fallen patches of standing and yet the surface outrageous why is a pale
a heavy choking a neglected tuesday wet crossing and the miserable centre no distractor all
in butter leave draw cider in a wise veil and more garments shows that shadows
upward from the fabled damned or a love increasèd there above when tears many tears
language general taylor limited objectives owls such as pie bolsters will leap beat willie well
into the polling booth clean shaven gen gavin 's straight dipping downward through low hills
or greener than complaining anything suitable bedding very suitable bedding very suitable bedding very suitable
the last spice is that which was so kindly way to feel faces salad dressing
in a vast sadness of war radio antennae high it was directly placed back not