Kevin Chin

Ryan Cooper

Russ Powers

• Dictionaries
  • Build a dictionary of positive and negative words. This can be done through the use of Synonyms and Antonyms to words such as love, evil, death, dispair, good, etc.
  • Build a dictionary of words related to colors. Water and all synonyms can be considered blue, forests are green, fire is orange, death = black, etc.

• Parsing
  • Parse through the poem looking for positive and negative words. Keep a tally of the words to ascertain the overall tone of the poem.
  • Parse through to get colors tones from the words.
  • Find similes
  • Look for continuity of thought throughout lines
    • checking to see if nouns and verbs match up
    • continuity of concepts, ie see if a noun or related noun are used in following lines

• Interpretation
  • Create a fractal which uses the color tones and overall tone of the poem.
    • choosing which fractal algorithm
    • changing parameters
    • display colors