{"id":644,"date":"2016-03-25T19:04:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-03-25T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:38:58","slug":"rwet-midterm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zoebachman.net\/itp\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"RWET: Midterm"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like form. I find constraint to be an interesting mechanism for producing art, producing results we often could not have come up with consciously. That being said, the use of form has often directly related to ideas of personal expression and emotion, a way of structuring the subconscious or revealing an underlying architecture.<\/p>\n

While thinking about poetic form, the relation between logic and nature I kept hitting on integer sequences in math. The most well known is the Fibonacci sequence, the one where the next number in the series is created from the previous two.<\/p>\n

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The Fib sequence is particularly revered because not only does it come up in lots of different mathematical explorations but in nature as well. Golden spirals\/ratios are seen in seed patterns, leaf placement and even faces. It’s an example of the underlying logic of what may seem like random chaos.<\/p>\n

I went through a lot of different ideas about what the source text could be, initially wanting to play with ideas of logic and emotion. But as I kept referring to Fibonacci as Gib I thought, what if it was specifically fibs, lies, that the program altered? A quippy play on words, fibbing fibbers and the fibs they tell…in fib sequence?<\/p>\n

Some months back On The Media did a whole show<\/a> about Political Lies. Politicians often get away with political lies because people don’t bother to fact check and then when they do, the first-impression, the lie, is still stronger than the truth. The lie is what people remember.<\/p>\n

So I was curious about what kind of poetry could emerge using the Fibonacci sequence on some of the recent political speeches, as we are currently in the heat of the presidential primaries.<\/p>\n

CODE, ATTEMPT 1:
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\nI then realized that I should use lists, so I went back to the list code examples and played around with different examples that I thought would be helpful. After a few tries I came up with this code:<\/p>\n