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rpi poetry generator

A free generative art piece — play it in your browser, no install. Poetry theremin: use Raspberry Pi with hardware sensors to generate poetry using NLP techniques, based on physical light and distance conditions

by @rileynwong · rileynwong/rpi-poetry-generator on GitHubLANG Python★ 22HOSTED ON RILEYNWONG.COMUPDATED 30 Apr 2016

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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

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.

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