quilt poems #22
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I have a bit of an idea in my head for a book of computational quilt poems but don't know all the "pieces" yet ( lil quilt joke there for ya).
I'm just gonna talk it out loud here in text as I write.
I'll probably code in Lua since that's been my fave language to mess around in for a while.
I think I'll have recipes for different patchwork quilt styles, like log cabin, lazy gal bars, housetop, blocks and strips,
A lot of my visual quilt influence comes from the Gee's bend quilters, but I'm not sure.
At first I was thinking about using numbers to make a quilt:
"crazy":
84889247
35564599
67261328
24219258
63655937
57493489
19512694
11513998
a Housetop variation:
77777777
76666660
76555510
76544410
76542310
76543310
76111110
70000000
Then, considering Puzzlescript, I could turn these into color blocks for example and build out a whole quilt, where each number is one square in one color.
Here's a past example of a puzzlescript sound toy thing I made that kind of looks like that kind of approach:
I think that's worth pursuing again at some point, but maybe not for this project where I'm trying to produce a "novel" of 50k words.
So instead, what if each number in the pattern for a quilt is a word.
So what would an example from that housetop variant look like?
Maybe I need to pick a title, and then select words for that quilt poem based on that title?
I'm not sure what corpora to use and I'm not much of a fan of LLMs so I'll just try one out using some of Darius' Corpora as a first test:
I went into the "colors" category, which is ironic since I was talking about not using color, but I guess it counts if it's words. I used only single-word color names from crayola for this first test:
Mahogany Housetop
Almond Almond Almond Almond Almond Almond Almond Almond Almond
Almond Carnation Carnation Carnation Carnation Carnation Carnation Copper
Almond Carnation Mahogany Mahogany Mahogany Mahogany Radical Copper
Almond Carnation Mahogany Red Red Red Radical Copper
Almond Carnation Mahogany Red White Yellow White Copper
Almond Carnation Mahogany Red Yellow Yellow White Radical
Almond Carnation Radical Radical Radical Radical Radical Almond
Almond Copper Copper Copper Copper Copper Copper Copper Copper
Hmmmm. What do I think about this?
Let's try non-color words:
This time I tried words from the list of fireworks. Same pattern as above quilt-poem:
bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire bengal fire
bengal fire falling leaf falling leaf falling leaf falling leaf falling leaf falling leaf falling leaf fish
bengal fire falling leaf ground bloom flower ground bloom flower ground bloom flower ground bloom flower spider fish
bengal fire falling leaf ground bloom flower horsetail horsetail horsetail horsetail spider fish
bengal fire falling leaf ground bloom flower horsetail waterfall maroon spider fish
bengal fire falling leaf ground bloom flower horsetail maroon maroon spider fish
bengal fire falling leaf spider spider spider spider spider fish
bengal fire fish fish fish fish fish fish fish
Hmmm. I might need different word lists, with more meaningful connections between the words. Need to think more on it.