ABSTRACT

The contact zone between algorithms and creative writing has become an increasingly fertile ground for literary experimentation in the last decades, with more accessible digital technologies broadening the scope of potential artistic productions and allowing the exploration of new forms of creativity. Inspired by the playful collaboration between arts and sciences embodied by the experimental creations of the French literary group OuLiPo, we borrow from physics and mathematics the concept of self-avoiding random walk to create original poems. This model is adapted here to generate random poems through potentially infinite combinations of a finite set of verses distributed on a virtual two-dimensional grid. The highly versatile algorithm we designed allows to randomly generate unexpected poems and provide, for each, a unique path with the graphical representation of a random walk.

摘要

在过去的几十年里，算法和创意写作之间的接触区已经成为文学实验的肥沃土壤，更容易获得的数字技术扩大了潜在艺术作品的范围，并允许探索新的创造力形式。受法国文学团体 OuLiPo 的实验创作所体现的艺术与科学之间有趣的合作启发，我们借用物理和数学的自我避免随机游走的概念来创作原创诗歌。该模型适用于通过分布在虚拟二维网格上的有限诗句的潜在无限组合来生成随机诗歌。我们设计的高度通用的算法允许随机生成意想不到的诗歌，并为每首诗提供，