MeFi Projects

Calvin and Markov digests Calvin and Hobbes strips and generates endless new comics with random, semi-coherent dialogue using Markov chains. Here's some details about how I built it. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 6, 2015 - 22 comments

An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.
posted by cortex on Nov 4, 2011 - 13 comments

Markov meets Mulder! Previously, On The X-Files... is a random image generator that uses markov chains to generate random conversations between major characters from The X-Files. The text is all drawn from post-processed transcripts of the show's nine-season run; the code is perl, the images are created using the ImageMagick library. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Feb 17, 2011 - 9 comments

Garkov is a comic strip generator that uses Markov chains to synthesize new Garfield strips based on transcripts of several hundred existing strips. The output varies nicely from plausible to surreal to downright incoherent. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jun 6, 2008 - 30 comments