Showing posts with label Garfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garfield. Show all posts

Friday, 6 June 2008

Garfield Minus Garfield



Follow up to (and linked from) the post below: This guy posts Garfield strips that are unchanged except that Garfield has been removed. The result is an eerily insane strip, apparently about a normal man named Jon who has lost his mind. (Jim Davis, the guy who draws the real Garfield strip, doesn't mind.)

Infinite Garfield strips


Markov chaining is a way of putting together words that matches the probability they would go together in real life. For example, it is a good bet that the words 'I love' will be followed by 'you' (especially when said by me in your presence), even though they could, in theory, be followed by 'elephant poo'(?!). This site uses Markov chaining to generate all-new Garfield strips. Cool idea.

My nonsense-generating program, JanusNode (available from JanusNode.com) also uses Markov chaining.