User:Tamish

For this project, I quickly realised I’m not going to be able to master chucK or chAI in the given time frame to start from scratch so I began working with the sample code we were given. For the first poem, I was going for a theme of endless walking as sort of a metaphor for going through life with different emotions. In editing the code, I used the three arrays of words, each array encapsulating a different set of emotions: positive, negative, and others. These words served as the foundational elements for the poem, guiding its emotional tone and direction. By categorizing the words this way, I intended to give the poem a nuanced emotional depth, reflecting the complexity of human experiences. The core of the program lies in how it utilizes the Word2Vec model to generate the poem. Based on the initial set of emotional words, the model selects or generates subsequent words, weaving them into a cohesive and evocative poem.

The file poem-chaos.ck is another ChucK program I created, similar to poem-endless-walk.ck, but with a theme of chaos. This one is about making a poem that's not just words, but also has a performance aspect to it, like a show. The idea was to mix poetry with a sense of chaos. Just like the other program, this one also uses a Word2Vec model, which is a smart tool for understanding and using words in a way that computers can understand. This helps in creating the poem part of the program. I used different shreds to play sounds or notes, and I made the time between each note shorter and shorter. This creates a sense of things speeding up, getting more intense, kind of like how chaos feels. So, in simple words, this program is like a mix of a poetry reading and a sound performance, where the words and the sounds together give you a feeling of chaos, like things are getting more and more jumbled and fast.