You might not have noticed the switcharoo what I performed in my posting of this, but whatever.
Here‘s a modified version of some earlier code I write, this time pared down to generate some semiotic square templates as opposed to analogic square templates. I don’t find them anywhere as amusing, but I guess it has some worth of its own anyway…
and what might one oppose to that most delicious of fruits: the strawberry?
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Following a brief elopement with Levi-Strauss earlier this year, I found myself one evening tinkering with a small program to generate semiotic/analogic squares.
Given two pairs of ‘opposites’ (a,b) and (c,d), one can construct a square by juxtaposing different elements from each pair.
For instance, we might get this
body
bad |
body
good |
mind
bad |
mind
good |
While reading this book, I came across a similar interpretation of Levi-Strauss’s canonical formula (more about which I will write in a future post) the form of which I’m sure you’ll be able to see by looking at a single example for a moment:
technology
ends
mental |
-> |
technology
means
mental |
nature
ends
mental |
nature
means
physical |
This interpretation is given by Racine, and is not explicit in Levi-Strauss’s original work. I don’t find it especially rich either as interpretations go, but it was interesting to look at the results it could produce.
The resulting program may be seen here.
(n.b. this articles is mainly, humourous, but some pretty bizzare/interesting things come out of it.)
What’s Duality?
Ok, if you don’t know…duality is a feature of some areas of maths where given a proof you can swap some terms and get the dual of it’s proof. For example, in projective geometry, you can switch the words “point” and “line”, and “meet” and “join” (and some others, but I’m only giving a simple example). So, given the statemenn “two points join to form a line”, you can get “two lines meet to form a point”. See? it works?
Applications
My main object here will be to construct a program that will, given a basic erotic story, reverse the sexes of the participants (and of course it will fail miserably in the process).
So, basically all i have to do is list all the different couples of male/female words. I’m going to avoid objective pronouns because though “his” matches with “her”, so does “him”…so it would work fine from male to female but not vice-versa (because she can have two meanings depending on context) Likewise, her shouldn’t be used as a objective pronoun. This can be overcome with a grammatical parser … but I don’t have time to implement such a program at the moment.
So here’s some things from the list, just to give you a rough idea.
he|she
his|her
penis|vagina
woman|man
womanly|manly
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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
I’m quite proud of it *proud*, despite the grammatical incompatibilities (which could be fixed, but I don’t really want to put that much time into it).
Generic Proverb Generator
Nested Words
In response to this post by
Qwantz, I generated a list of words of the type he suggested; namely ones that you can form by appending a letter to either side of a word of that form (and “a” and “I” are words of that form).
For instance, he came up with as an example
I->lie->alien->salient
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(In a style suggested me by Nasa).
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation, bitch.
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