Mark Rickerby

This is great! I remember thinking when reading your article about fractal stories a few weeks ago that a lot of these ideas could be applied to generating books/NaNoGenMo texts...

Just getting everything set up so I can output PDFs with covers, etc...  

Have unfortunately been busier than I had anticipated, but I’ve put the source code for this online and am going to try to finish it off over the next couple...

Incoming... > They facilitate the transfer possibly requiring only a few others are in operation, but a copy could not be used for the symbol Ø signifies the letter O...

Fragments of a novel... > They’ve destroyed her research. > > He swoops over the world. > > Shakes his head. > > When the time comes, he’ll scoop up...

📖 First draft of the book: [Dreams of Golden Weather (PDF)](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/files/2635529/book-1543631506.pdf) ⚙️ Source code: [maetl/dreams-of-golden-weather](/maetl/dreams-of-golden-weather) --- Am done for the month, but there are still a few rough edges and...

@hugovk oops! good catch, thanks for spotting that. 😬 I bumped some params to make sure and generated a few more PDFs. [This one comes in at just over 51k](https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018/files/2636881/book-1543749800.pdf).

Wrapping this up for now. There are a number of little tidyups and improvements to the formatting I want to do (as well as adding more themes!) but I’m reasonably...

Update: - [Bundle of 100 generated books available for download](https://maetl.itch.io/thematic-automata) - [Notes on the concept and method behind this](https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata)

Yes, it’s based on the elementary (1D) automata studied extensively by Wolfram and others. Game of Life is generally represented in 2D grid space with edge cells in either 4...