Midterm Update 1

After reviewing the each other's proposals I had a really good exchange with Kyle where he mentioned a site called the Library of Babel which is based on the book of the same name which does something along the line of generating every line of characters possible in theory and bookmarking it. I thought it was an interesting idea to try and wrap my project around language in that sense.

My original project was more story based an honestly I've never touched a self automated system before in coding so it's all new territory so I have little estimate on how feasible it is. As it is now I still want the program to proceed through a narrative instead of stagnating on a single scene, it's a minor but significant detail as currently I'm focusing on forming the basic functions for producing language.

This whole line of thinking is really stretching my definition of will and when a mass of conflicting goals starts producing compromises and behavior. It has me remembering the animated film Ghost in the Shell (1995) that I unfortunately lent to a friend prior to the project but the thesis of the film was how a mass of information and instructions eventually produces a conflicted self determined system.

What I have currently working in my project is dialogue class that can print itself out as well as generating words that vary consonants and vowels to at least be readable for English speakers. Part of that class allows me to generate a selection of words that the viewer can respond with. I'm currently moving onto developing an actual class to store and respond to the words.

Currently I'm still planning on using bacteria as the archetype for positive and negative responses as well as setting basic goals for the program such as constructing new strings and using words together to build context as primitive sentences. My current workflow can be seen as this:

1. Create words and output them.
2. Memorize words and viewer's response.
3. Sort words based on if the response is negative or positive
4. Attach words to the context of nouns or verbs that respond positive or negative when connected
5. Output a new response by attaching words with connected meaning.

As of today I'm currently on step 2 however coding the next steps should not be a lot of code but simple modules of looping code that need to fit into each-other. I'm going to give myself until Monday to finish this behaviour to make sure I don't sink all my time into overdeveloping a single piece of the project. If I don't complete it I'm confident even a basic primitive function will work to complete the project.