Today's venture into collective memory will involve two generation techniques. The first will use words, the second will use images. The image generator does best with nouns and adjectives. Verbs are harder. I'm using my own ngram algorithm which you can play with here. The algorithm is wired to be as random as possible, but can only reproduce phrases it has already "eaten."
At some point, I enhanced the algorithm to include punctuation, which made it significantly cleaner. This text was generated off of a bias that was "eaten" with a previous version of the algorithm. So, it's not nearly as clean. It produces output like this:
amain, one manner with truth, that rotteth and is, mine eyes: the minister by year king Hezekiah and walls, O Joshua, who fleeth away. Then brought gold at noonday as yet hope for? I stood forth. and reader of Gabael, of Boaz of Rechab.
doctors of creeping things, he lose it: she deliver unto myself. I come. So Ahab at once; that Sisinnes the Tishbite, Arise, lift itself into desolation: the angels; and Tahath his bishoprick let Daniel purposed to beg in Dan. And joy no master: let tears of Joab did, believed also: and staves? And Obed- edom with anger. he of? for skin, yea, to Rages,
lamp, and lost the treader of Jeshua begat sons come, whereof cometh and pipe, and delight himself entered by parents, or all valiant acts our mother, And Kish begat David say so evil. And ten bases: all mine increase.
fame hereof went one log of Gera, and scarlet robe, and shaken leaf driven stubble fully persuaded that, such speeches proceeded, as Esaias said Thomas, and begat Judas was strong city: one language, and Pontius Pilate, and safe in judgment far as Obadiah the thirty men by God after it reigned, in travail.
false prophets from her father put away mine adversary?
Master, the laughter the lord was bitter.
Choba, and Ismachiah, and viewed the garden in fetters; and Mattithiah, and read many desired I looked, they tread down out thine army. And Hiram out wisdom: but destroyed my house: for breach, with fruit. For all godliness of Michael:
disquietness of Hashub, the months. And thirty elephants to hunger, feed him free do here lightened.
thereat.
flint, and barbarously, but Christ neither rewarded thee their trouble.
sky is meet thee desolate.
tribute; but he justified in Christ: when Gog and sailors, and Zilthai,
We're going to keep nouns and adjectives, noun phrases, so let's whittle it down. I came up with this phrase.
Rotten truth, mine eyes, brought gold at noonday doctors of creeping things lift itself into desolation.
Here's what we got:
Overall, inclusion of the word "gold" gave the images an overall gold tint to them. One image has a list. The final image conveys the desolation and longing of the provided terms. Three of the four images are confused or over-emphasize one part of the text over the other in a way that doesn't really work out. The final image, however, resonates. Let's give it name. We'll call it "The Missed Connection."
So, we caught a good one at the bottom there. That is a keeper. The other three not so much. As templates, the first image could work. The second image would net you various portraits of male figures, the third can become anything because right now, it's kind of nothing. And the last one, has a figure, an environment, and a third element, text. It has the most promise as a template too.
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