{"id":81,"date":"2017-02-25T10:15:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2019-02-26T11:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T11:32:01","slug":"procedurally-generated-bodypaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/25\/procedurally-generated-bodypaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Procedurally-generated bodypaint"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s text, but NSFW text.\u00a0 Procedural Paint-Job Generator.<\/a><\/p>\n

This idea came to me in the wee hours of the morning.\u00a0 I got out of bed, coded all morning, and went back to sleep after publishing it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been creating a vocabulary to describe the body paint at the Fremont Solstice Parade for a while.\u00a0\u00a0 I planned to use that in some sort of database-driven visualization for Solstice Parade photos, somewhat like Atlanta Fashion Police.\u00a0 I still plan to do that, but this project goes the other way.\u00a0 Instead of describing an existing paint-job with the vocabulary, I use the vocabulary to create a description of a hypothetical paint-job.\u00a0 The plausibility of the paint-jobs varies, but that’s part of the charm.I used Kate Compton’s Tracery to generate the descriptions.\u00a0 I started by adding all the words I could think of, grouped logically into colors, color modifiers, patterns, animals, vehicles, and so on.\u00a0 Then I built phrases that combined those elements, built the phrases into clauses, and then into sentences.\u00a0 It can suggest individual paint-jobs as well as groups, and pluralizing complex phrases is tricky!\u00a0 The following sentences have identical meanings, but must be modified differently to be pluralized.<\/p>\n